PingSpike
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I remember reading about a similar situation with a dell server back when I was researching PCI-E adapters.
If its anything like the one I read about, it kind of hard to mod, but possible due to Dell pretty much intentionally making it hard to mod. Its 4x electrical, and that will give some performance hit with some newer graphics cards. Not so much the older ones. I remember people were having trouble getting certain cards to work, likely due to power draw issues.
All in all, I personally would say its more trouble then its worth to mod, unless this one is different.
she prefers 800 x 600 video resolution believe it or not! Maybe integrated graphics will be OK if it can do 75 Hz
'Senior Member', sounds like a.. some kind of disorder.
-Doh! That's because (or is it why) you are a Diamond Member, I am merely a Senior Member.
'Senior Member', sounds like a.. some kind of disorder.
I think it is a function of how fast you hopped on the deal. I got in about 30 min after it had been posted.
Member status always has meant squat to me.
The temp authorization on my card has not been completed.
I chatted with Nishant at Dell Customer Support. I asked him what the likelyhood was that they would cancel my order. He said that 3/12 was the latest date, but it could ship before that.
Other than that, he didn't know much (! - "We are making every effort to ship the item as soon as possible"), but he did give me "Next Day Air". Which if they never scrounge one together for me out of all y'all's RMAs, is rather useless. I feel consumer bleakness coming on. Time to go shopping!
Edit: still nuttin on 2/17. It says "In Production" but I have the feeling that some ebay sellers bought all the stock.
I chatted with Nishant at Dell Customer Support. I asked him what the likelyhood was that they would cancel my order. He said that 3/12 was the latest date, but it could ship before that.
Other than that, he didn't know much (! - "We are making every effort to ship the item as soon as possible"), but he did give me "Next Day Air". Which if they never scrounge one together for me out of all y'all's RMAs, is rather useless. I feel consumer bleakness coming on. Time to go shopping!
Edit: still nuttin on 2/17. It says "In Production" but I have the feeling that some ebay sellers bought all the stock.
So Dell says "In Production" "Est. Ship Date 3/12". Dell Gods and subtle eddies in the ether, I pray you feel me and help this deal go through. Amen.:heart:
Me too yet ! What's up with Mickey D.?
Edit: seriously, don't feel bad.
Cons:
No OS,
Only 512 Mb,
and 80 Gig -- it'll take some upgrades.
Plus it's a Dell. No overclocking or nice BIOS options.
Plus it's a hard mod for PCI-E x4 graphics from a x16 card.
Enough negatives for you? Sheeew I barely want it now.
Pros:
Dirt Cheap
No Redmond Tax. With Dell, often configuring with no-OS, you end up paying the same as one with windows. Isn't that special? Not on this one.
Supposedly takes some beefy procs.
Edit: seriously, don't feel bad.
Cons:
No OS,
Only 512 Mb,
and 80 Gig -- it'll take some upgrades.
Plus it's a Dell. No overclocking or nice BIOS options.
Plus it's a hard mod for PCI-E x4 graphics from a x16 card.
Enough negatives for you? Sheeew I barely want it now.
Pros:
Dirt Cheap
No Redmond Tax. With Dell, often configuring with no-OS, you end up paying the same as one with windows. Isn't that special? Not on this one.
Supposedly takes some beefy procs.
I already have the OS to use with it
I have 4gb ram to put in there
i have 1TB of WD green hard drive already
I dont need that PCI-E cuz it's gonna be run as a pure server with multi VM's
It also has a 1 year support and warranty i believe,i still think it's a good deal to me
What kind of RAM are you using?
This guy's post from a year ago seems to say ECC only:
EDIT: 2/25/08 Still no word! - but now my estimated ship date is 3/11 instead of 3/12
Yeh don't feel bad
I got the same deal back in Jan w/ 2 SATA 160Gb drives 1 Gb of ram, no OS but only $399.
I upgraded to the 2.2 GHz for just $50 more. I pluged in an extra 320 Gb Hd and loaded my OS. It'll come around again.
I got the same deal back in Jan w/ 2 SATA 160Gb drives 1 Gb of ram, no OS but only $399.
I upgraded to the 2.2 GHz for just $50 more. I pluged in an extra 320 Gb Hd and loaded my OS. It'll come around again.
i got one of these poweredge sc440's
anyone knows where i can pick up a 512mb system pull so i can double my ram to 1gb?
crucial.com has 2gb of ecc ram for 69.99, but i don't want to buy that much~
anyone knows where i can pick up a 512mb system pull so i can double my ram to 1gb?
crucial.com has 2gb of ecc ram for 69.99, but i don't want to buy that much~
Got my email, Shipped! Upgraded to "Next Business Day" for calling Dell and asking whassup with my order?
Ditto me! We could go in on some, but still expensive for THIS machine. Seriously let me know if you find it!
Ditto me! We could go in on some, but still expensive for THIS machine. Seriously let me know if you find it!
Check out the egg:
Kingston 512 667 MHz ~ $20 shipped
Edit: and get a DVD burner and PCI Vid card at teh same time?
Kingston 512 667 MHz ~ $20 shipped
Edit: and get a DVD burner and PCI Vid card at teh same time?
am I the only one who noticed it's registered ECC ram? which in this case can quickly cut off your upgrade path there.
Samus
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I use my SC440 as a Media Center PC. It's silent with the exception of the 80GB Western Digital 'nearline' hard drive it comes with. Seeks are disturbingly loud.
I modified the 4X slot to let me put a 16X videocard in (runs at 4X, which is fine, thats somewhere around AGP8X speed, does 1080P great) and used the 8X slot for my 1X VBOX Cat's EYE 164e ATSC tuner. If I put the card in a 1X slot the system wouldn't post.
The processor needed to be upgraded for 1080P (obviously no overclocking options) so I ran out to Microcenter and dropped in a $200 Q6600 (2.4GHz x 4 cores @ 1066.) The system supports 1066FSB, but memory max clock is 667MHz.
As far as memory, it requires REGISTERED memory. Go to newegg, I picked up some Kingston DDR2 Registered ECC 1GBx2 kit for 60 bucks or something. YOU CAN NOT PUT ORDINARY ECC or NON-REGISTERED MEMORY IN THIS MACHINE. Don't think you can use your old Patriot DDR2 RAM, you can't. It won't boot.
Obviously had to add a sound card. I use a USB Turtlebeach with SPDIF and AC3FILTER and it works great. No noticable CPU overhead from it.
To Miguel421 and Samus:
This system does NOT use registered ram.
the following is taken from dell.com's support page:
------------------bof-----
Memory
The four memory module connectors on the system board can accommodate from 512 MB to 4 GB of 533-MHz and 667-MHz unbuffered ECC DDR II single or dual-rank memory modules. See Figure 6-2 for the location of the four memory module connectors.
------------------eof-----
so you want pc2-4200/pc2-5300 ddr2 ecc sticks
(pc2-4200 is aka pc2-4300, and pc2-5300 is aka pc2-5400)
you can get 2gb of ram for this system on crucial.com for like 58 dollars.
if you have this server and you had the stock 512mb pulled from the system, I'd like to take it off of you, just private msg me, i'm offering 20 dollars per stick.
This system does NOT use registered ram.
the following is taken from dell.com's support page:
------------------bof-----
Memory
The four memory module connectors on the system board can accommodate from 512 MB to 4 GB of 533-MHz and 667-MHz unbuffered ECC DDR II single or dual-rank memory modules. See Figure 6-2 for the location of the four memory module connectors.
------------------eof-----
so you want pc2-4200/pc2-5300 ddr2 ecc sticks
(pc2-4200 is aka pc2-4300, and pc2-5300 is aka pc2-5400)
you can get 2gb of ram for this system on crucial.com for like 58 dollars.
if you have this server and you had the stock 512mb pulled from the system, I'd like to take it off of you, just private msg me, i'm offering 20 dollars per stick.
I've read the single pad BSEL mod works on some dells. 1066 -> 1333 FSB
http://www.ocforums.com/showpo...p=5472164&postcount=11
May give that a try down the road, or the regular BSEL, depending on chip I have at the time.
http://www.ocforums.com/showpo...p=5472164&postcount=11
May give that a try down the road, or the regular BSEL, depending on chip I have at the time.
I love Google translator: " Exchange Suitablishment additional "
EDIT: just to say this is the best deal I ever got online for sure. Thanks OP!
:beer::beer::beer:
EDIT: just to say this is the best deal I ever got online for sure. Thanks OP!
:beer::beer::beer:
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