Dell PowerEdge 400SC (ed: 9/4 offering P4 3.2G for $100) w/ P4 2.8 800FSB hyperthread $448 free ship

[halik]

is anyone still selling their 128mb ecc sticks?

 

[futtbucker]

Is the upgrade to 3.2 dead?

Here is all I can find: Intel® P®4 Processor at 3.2GHz, 512KB Cache, 800MHz FSB [add $499 or $14/month1]

 

[cmetz]

Is the on-board network controller the Intel CSA-bus part or a PCI-bus part?

 

[boles]

PM me if you have 128 sticks from this deal that you want to sell

 

[CherryBOMB]

Sorry to say but I forgot about the extra email accounts I opend with my SBCGlobal DSL account up to 10,I had more DELL 10% off coupons,I was going to give them away.....But looks like this deal is DEAD now ....I hope everyone got in on this Flameing Screemer.........Of a Deal....
I will be selling my 128mb stick so PM me.......My delivery is set for 9-11 I have heat as well

 

[alrocky]

Missed out on the 3.2. E-mailed Dell Thursday (when the 3.2 deal started) to cancel the 2.8 I ordered the day before. I didn't order the 3.2 right away because I didn't want 2 active orders in their system. My online order status never updated past pre-production yesterday and was hoping for their targeted 2 hour email reply. Sadly their reply came today saying the order was shipped and couldn't be cancelled. I see the 3.2 died offer earlier today too. I e-mailed Dell asking for a $100 CC credit since that's reflects the current price. Will they do this normally?

My thanks for all the information on this board and in particular to Whitneymuse who started this thread and gave memory advice and to olliebg for his site.

 

[tbogstad]

i am gonna want to sell my stick of ram, we shall see if it is 333 or 400.

sposed to ship on the 11th i should have it in 8 to 12 days or so.

 

[gonzo2k]

my system is shipping 9/12 or sooner...my 128mb DDR will be up for grabs, too.
$30.00/shipped.

PM me if interested.
Dibs OK.

 

[ericlp]

Originally posted by: K-squared
For those of you that have received your systems in the last few days, is Dell still substituting DDR400 memory for the DDR333 that's suppose to come with the basic configuration???

Altho the invoice stated that I got 333 I got 400's on both of them!

 

[dmak]

Does dell charge your credit card after the order is shipped? They haven't taken money out of my credit card. I got a confirmaiton on the order and I ordered it yesterday. Its in production but thats it. Anyone else is in the same shoe as me? I'm nervous that they will cancel my order but i dont' know why they would other then the fact i got in for the p4 3.2 w/ 100 instant and 100 mir.

thanks
-dmak

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: dmak
Does dell charge your credit card after the order is shipped? They haven't taken money out of my credit card. I got a confirmaiton on the order and I ordered it yesterday. Its in production but thats it. Anyone else is in the same shoe as me? I'm nervous that they will cancel my order but i dont' know why they would other then the fact i got in for the p4 3.2 w/ 100 instant and 100 mir.

thanks
-dmak

Dell puts a hold on her CC when you order. Then they actually charge your CC when they ship it. If you got a confirmation email and it's in production you will be ok.

 

[smartidiot]

Originally posted by: alrocky
Missed out on the <STRONG>3.2</STRONG>. E-mailed Dell Thursday (when the 3.2 deal started) to cancel the 2.8 I ordered the day before. I didn't order the 3.2 right away because I didn't want 2 active orders in their system. My online order status never updated past pre-production yesterday and was hoping for their targeted 2 hour email reply. Sadly their reply came today saying the order was shipped and couldn't be cancelled. I see the 3.2 died offer earlier today too. I e-mailed Dell asking for a $100 CC credit since that's reflects the current price. Will they do this normally?

My thanks for all the information on this board and in particular to <STRONG>Whitneymuse</STRONG> who started this thread and gave memory advice and to<STRONG> olliebg</STRONG> for his site.

interesting... demanding a pricematch from Dell? tell me if it works, I need to do it too

 

[Lefty421]

How do you get both the instant $100 off rebate and a $100 off MIR? Where is the info on the MIR? Also, I signed up for the small business email subscription, when do they send me my 10% off code? Can anybody send me one if they aren't going to use it?
thanks,

Lefty421

 

[GermyBoy]

I only see the 3.2GHz upgrade as a $400 add-on. How are you getting it for only $100?

 

[watjac]

deal is over guys rebate is gone and its now 498 for the 2.8. The only decent deal you are going to get now would be to look at the catalog for september right here http://www.dell.com/html/us/segments/bsd/september_catalog/msac/acq/s_dodframe.html check under servers and storage and it shows a p4 2.4 for 399. The website doesn't show this and wants 498 for the p4 2.4. So you could call the order in say you saw it in the catalog so they should give it to you and then tell them that you signed up for the 10 percent coupon that is listed in your catalog but you haven't recieved it yet and they should take another 10% off making the p4 2.4 around 360 before taxes. Not as good as the 2.8 some of us got for that price or the 450 or so that some got the 3.2 at but at least you don't have to wait for a rebate.

 

[tkhater]

Hi

I ordered 2 of these systems a couple of days ago with the 3.2c at a 2.6c price and a 10% off coupon, so I got the 2 systems for $1076.40 minus $200 rebate + tax. The question is, is that I mistakenly ordered them "no-os Linux" instead of "no-os Microsoft" What is the difference?

Also, I probably do not need the processing power of the 3.2, so how much should I ask if I swap it for a 2.6? I want the 800 fsb and the HT, but I don't necessarily need that extra processing power.

 

[MemnochtheDevil]

Also, I probably do not need the processing power of the 3.2, so how much should I ask if I swap it for a 2.6? I want the 800 fsb and the HT, but I don't necessarily need that extra processing power.

If you don't want the 3.2 why order it? I'd guess that Dell won't give you much off the systems as this was much too cheap to begin with. You'll probably do better selling the chips yourself.

 

[watjac]

one person was told by a dell rep that they were selling them for -85% margin thats a heck of a loss. I imagine that is the 3.2 system since the retail on that chip is more than the whole system they of course don't pay retail but they still pay more than the whole system is costing you I imagine. Even on the 2.4's and 2.8's they probably are barely making anything if they are.

 

[Dubb]

anyone have a link for the site that tells how to get sata raid on these? seen references to it being possible, but can't find anything. thanks.

 

[Whitneymuse]

During the 7 days following the beginning of this thread, the PE400SC sold over 11,000 units; the 3.2G was for sale for 12-18 hours and just helped the buzz. Where Dell makes a ton of money is in their peripherals and other ancillaries. Try pricing a module of PC3200 DDR400 or a PC800MHz ECC or non-ECC. First, it will take you forever to find that memory due to the way they categorize it. When you do find it, the price point is almost twice the cost of the identical module from Crucial, e.g.

Specifically, if you can locate the part number for the DDR400 non-ECC that Dell uses, it has some of the identical numbers of the Crucial/Micron numbers. That's for the 256M modules. The 512 modules have no such similarity are priced over Crucial by 100%. Think of the orders of two or three thousand workstations that have at least 2 to 4 memory modules in them for starters. Dell didn't get to be the largest manufacturer and take market share away from HP/CPQ by losing oodles of money. Only a very small number of peeps would actually order a server, buy their own OS, modem and memory, and then install it no matter how straight forward and relatively uncomplicated it is to accomplish. Frankly, if it wasn't for a few on this thread who made it clear that this machine was based on the latest Intel chipset and CPU design, I wouldn't have bought it.

 

[phita23]

I honestly dont mean to be rude, but I dont understand what you're tryin to say whitneymuse );

 

[Lanyap]

Dell uses these deals for us geeks to increase their revenue growth so that they look good for the investment analysts and so that they beat their competition. Regular businesses buy the systems and peripherals at the regular high price to make up for the deals. They get the best of both worlds. They sell lots of systems when they want to and make money. They are smart.

 

[MemnochtheDevil]

Originally posted by: phita23
I honestly dont mean to be rude, but I dont understand what you're tryin to say whitneymuse );

That this sale was a big loss leader for Dell. They only make money on people that add peripherals or upgrade options to their order. So all of us who bought this server in base configuration got one incredible deal, don't expect Dell to give any cash back for those looking to deal more. Very nice deal, glad I got in on it.

 

[K-squared]

If I didn't know better, I would say that Dell has made a fundamental shift in their sales targeting. Just a few quarters ago, their deals seemed to occurred during the last month of the quarter (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct), with the best deals usually coming in the last week of the quarter. During the April-July quarter, the deals started appearing in early July and have basically continued since then, rotating between Dell Home and Dell Business, and then between systems and software/peripherals.

With the near continuous trickle of deals since July, it almost appears as if they've shifted from simply trying to meet quarterly targets at the end of the quarter, to meeting either monthly or even semi-monthly sales targets. And I agree with Lanyap, in that Dell makes it's real money (profit) on warranty, peripheral, and organizational (business) sales.

Originally posted by: Lanyap
Dell uses these deals for us geeks to increase their revenue growth so that they look good for the investment analysts and so that they beat their competition. Regular businesses buy the systems and peripherals at the regular high price to make up for the deals. They get the best of both worlds. They sell lots of systems when they want to and make money. They are smart.

 

[tbogstad]

I am a ITpro at work and we buy all our systems and servers from DELL, and yes we pay like 2 to 3 times what i could go buy the stuff from someplace else.

Businesses can afford to pay more, so, same thing with graphics cards, the GF quadro cost 4 to 5 times as much as the regular GF card and is the same peice of hardware with parts disabled.