Oh, this should take you back...

[SuperNaruto]

Slockets are known not to work with Dells well... especially home grown ones..

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums...essage.id=47399&query.id=137447#M47399

http://www.powerleap.com/PL-iP3T.jsp the only company that test these things out..

It says out of production as of 6/2006

You're looking at YMMV

 

[Maximilian]

Go for it dude! It would be interesting to see before/after benchmarks and pics you should definately do that.

I did somthing similar. By accident somone sent me an old mobo with a k6-I cpu in it, and it got me thinking about building an old rig. Which i did, and it evolved over time and became a new rig.

Dual PIII 600 - Tyan tiger 100 mobo with geforce 2 mx - 512mb pc100 ram
-->
Dual PIII 1ghz - Gigabyte GA6VD? with geforce 4 mx 4000 - 512mb pc100 ram
-->
Dual athlon MP 2000+ - MSI board... cant remember it, with geforce 4 TI4400 - 1GB DDR 333?, this was short lived as i then realised the cheapness of old opterons.
-->
Dual opteron 842's (1.6ghz) - MSI FAR7 (new version) with radeon 9800 PRO - 768mb ECC DDR 400.

Case, hdd, sound card etc all remained the same throughout.

Stuff i didnt need anymore i sold (for a profit somtimes) except the geforce 4 TI, its sitting in a pII 400mhz rig, rather lopsided but it works.

 

[Eug]

OK, finally found it: Upgradeware Slot-T compatibility table.

This only applies to their particular "Slot-T" adapter, but it may still provide some useful information. Specifically, their Slot-T works as is with the XPS T550 (unlike with some of Dell's other models which require a special version of the slocket).

They recommend BIOS A11 (or later) to use with their Slot-T adapter.

P.S. I used this slocket for one of my BX machines and it worked great.

 

[IgoByte]

I've read reports of the IWILL Slocket II working very nicely with this particular machine, so that's why I decided to go for it.

I'm wondering if it's truly necessary to upgrade the PSU. The Dell PSU may only be 200W, but it's a quality unit and I've personally never experienced a problem with a Dell PSU, and I've worked with a lot of the Dimensions that were in the old Palo Alto cases. What do you guys think? Would I actually see a difference with a 330W Antec "True" PSU over the stock one? I mean already have a brand new one, all I need is that adapter, but just wondering...

 

[deadseasquirrel]

The PSU in my Dell I mentioned above is a 220w from '99 (a Dimension T600 XPS, I think). It's run 24x7 for 7 years now and currently has a power-hungry 5900ultra in it. I considered dropping in an Antec with an adapter to fit the Dell mobo, as well as maybe a PCP&C Dell-replacement, but, the dang thing is still running perfectly (games every day for the kids), so I'm not gonna drop any money into it. Yours should be fine.

 

[IgoByte]

Thanks. I thought it'd be alright.

 

[Eug]

Yeah, forget about the PSU.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: gramboh
1GB of PC133 is going to cost at least $50US if you are lucky.

Honestly, considering you are doing things like syncing an iPod, it makes sense to build a $500 PC, the utility is there if it is impacting tasks you do in your daily life, and the 3500+ priced out above will be many orders of magnitude faster than the Celery 1400 and will last you for a few years of light computing.

Why build a $500 PC? You can get a socket 754 mobo for $50 and throw in a sempron for under $50.. add some ram and ouy are good to go. Those $50 mobos are matx with onboard video, etc.

$50 mobo

 

[Netopia]

Because now he has A CHALLENGE and A PROJECT. More for the fun of it than the necessity.

Joe