Dell Optiplex 866r - Weak!

[burnedout]

Was just hired on as the tech support person for a small firm (about 270 employees) last week.

I have been deploying some new Dell Optiplex 866r mini-towers. They have 128 MB memory, 10 GB Seagate 5400 RPM HDDs and Intel 810 chipset motherboards. Running Win2K.

These boxes are weak! My PIII 600E here at home easily outperforms them. Probably due in large part to their Seagate hard drives. Only 5400 RPM. One does have a 7200 in it and it's not bad.

I know, they are corporate versions.

End of rant.

<edit> Whew, I'm tired. Put too many &quot;to&quot; in there.

 

[JJWalker]

Ummmmm.......thanks for the info.

 

[ahfung]

Brand PC sucks. Have u seen ad of $1800 &quot;Best buy&quot; P4 system only that comes with suckas$ TNT2 M64?

 

[frover2000]

i have a 486 optiplex it sux too,

im really curious to see what your getting at in this thread

 

[S0me1X]

i think the 810 with its integrated a/v/lan is the culprit

 

[ahfung]

It is the lowly 5400RPM. For every office PC I touched, 90% time of the sluggish feeling comes from HDD. No matter ATA-Whatever the OEM bragged, 5400RPM is simply DEAD slow now. And OEM tends to put only 32 or 64MB RAM in value biz PC, adding much burden to the already slow HDD subsystem. They just like let you know how fast the CPU is and ignore everything else (which are often much more crucial for general office use).