Dell poweredge 500sc with celeron

[watts3000]

just bought a dell 500sc to run as a web server that will serve static and asp pages and possible exchange and ftp server the system has a celeron 1.10cpu 2 10000rpm 18 gig scsi's and 640megs of pc133 ram expandable to 2gigs. I'm supposed to receive the system today. I just looked on dells web site and now you can get a p3 1.13 gigahertz cpu for the same price I paid for the celeron do you guys think its worth the trouble to send it back and

 

[Vegito]

if you have to pay for the shipping.. it might not be... talk to one of those csr, sometimes, they'll do it for free..

 

[llc00ljoel]

watts, i have the same bad luck....if you do plan on sending it back you might as wait a little longer so that you can wait for the next faster chip and then prepare to send that machine back for the next faster chip...

 

[oldfart]

I'd change it. The Celeron 1.1 looks like the .18u Coppermine, 128K cache, 100 MHz FSB type. The PIII 1.13 is a PIII-S Tualatin (S as in Server). 512k cache, 133 MHz FSB, .13u. It will be much faster, and run cooler to boot.

 

[watts3000]

Guys I went ahead and sent it back this afternoon I paid for shipping but the dell rep said after they recieve the item shipping will be credicted back to my credict card. Anyway I installed 2000 server and set iis up on the machine. You guys were right it was slow as hell. At that point I called in for a rma. I'm actually thinkung about building my server.

 

[oldfart]

If you do get another Dell, the PIII-S 1.13 or 1.26 will be much faster than the C1.1 was.