DELL PowerEdge SC1430 Dual QUADS - $729

[SandEagle]

Discounted upgrade on the E5310s. only 1 GB memory and an 80GB hard drive. Still, not a bad price for dual quads

http://configure.us.dell.com/d...&l=en&oc=bscwfk1&s=bsd

 

[EKKC]

pretty good. $20GB for the 160GB upgrade from 80gb is probably worth it if you consider the price/gb ratio
no optical drive, you can spring for a cheap one on newegg, etc though

can this use non-ECC non buffered RAM DIMMs?

 

[webdawg77]

These use FB-DIMMs

 

[SoulAssassin]

what are the video card options?

 

[Fuzb0]

Ever since "boogie nights" i have always thought i needed more quads...

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
what are the video card options?

? Two 64-bit, 100-MHz PCI-X expansion slots, two x8 lane (electrically wired for x4 lanes) PCI Express
(PCIe) expansion slots, and one 32-bit, 33-MHz legacy PCI expansion slot
? An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem with an ATI ES1000, 33-MHz PCI video controller.
This video subsystem contains a minimum of 16MB of graphics memory with support for 2D graphics.
Maximum resolution is 1600x1200 with 65,536 colors; true-color graphics are supported in the
following resolutions: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024

as per dell website doc.

Guess whatever you can fit into those x8/x4 slots

 

[cacasodo]

Lads,
Be careful in regards to video on this box. rrahman1 and I had a bother of a time getting even a PCI card to work in the box:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ey=y&keyword1=rrahman1

That said, the box is performing pretty well for me:
http://www.techanswerguy.com/2...ng-up-dell-sc1430.html

I'm currently trying out getting video to work through a 8x to 16x PCI Express adapter. let u know how it goes.

'sodo

 

[dajeepster]

this deal is back... but for $779

linkified

 

[chiragp]

The deal is back!
http://configure.us.dell.com/d...&l=en&oc=bscwfk1&s=bsd
Make sure to choose free upgrade to Dual Xeon core 2 Quad 5310

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: chiragp
Make sure to choose free upgrade to Dual Xeon core 2 Quad 5130

I think you ment to say the 5310


oh... and for anyone that wants to know... I've got a radeon 1550 PCI-e x1 video card in this and it runs fine.

 

[Pardus]

Originally posted by: Fuzb0
Ever since "boogie nights" i have always thought i needed more quads...

LOL 🙂

Will XP or Vista even use the 2nd cpu?

Prob be a good idea to get the 3-year warranty for $129 more.

Will need to add cd/dvd drive, floppy, keyboard, mouse, hd, video.

5 total I/O slots
2 PCI Express slots (x4 with x8 connectors)
2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots 3.3V, 1 32-bit/33MHz PCI slot 5V
One full height, full length slot; Remaining slots are full height, half length


This system looks better than the Inspiron or XPS.

 

[chiragp]

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: chiragp
Make sure to choose free upgrade to Dual Xeon core 2 Quad 5130

I think you ment to say the 5310


oh... and for anyone that wants to know... I've got a radeon 1550 PCI-e x1 video card in this and it runs fine.

Yup you're right. Thanks for pointing it out... fixed it in the post.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: ActiveX

Originally posted by: Fuzb0
Ever since "boogie nights" i have always thought i needed more quads...

LOL 🙂

Will XP or Vista even use the 2nd cpu?

yes... but its more dependend on the application that you are running... Seti Runs on all 8 cores.

if your question was will xp or vista recognize the second cpu... the answer to that question would be yes also.

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit on it.... I did buy more ram from newegg though... oh... and this comes with a 750 watt power supply too.

 

[Evadman]

too bad this isn't a 1 or 2 u server, I would snap one up in a heartbeat.