PIII + RIMM's (waste of $$ right?)

[kilnight]

I work tech support at a university.

Some lady (who does clerical work) is trying to convince me that she needs a Dell optiplex GX200 "workstation" instead of a GX110 "computer"

The GX200 line uses PIII's and RIMM's. Isn't that a waste of money?

P4's "need" RIMM's because of bandwidth increases, the 400 MHz bus speed, blah blah blah.

To to my knowledge the performance gain of RIMM's with a PIII (instead of SDRAM) is a neglible (especially for someone doing office work!)

The GX110 line uses SDRAM, and I am trying to convince her that the money wasted on RIMM's should be spend on a better monitor (or two! stupid RIMM's...)

thoughts?

 

[Rand]

The P3 definitely isnt gaining much from bandwidth beyond that of what PC133 SDRAM can provide.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

because 820 motherboard with sdram has big problem (recalled already), so they must make it p3 + 820 + rimm only.

why not get dimension 4000 series that use 815 motherboard with sdram?

I don't understand why optipex series is called "workstation", its spec is not good as dimension 4000 series.

dimension 8000 is the best buy.

 

[GFORCE100]

Well a Dual Pentium III on RDRAM will still give it a push.

 

[Generalen]

Dual CPU?? RIMM's ??? for office work!!, what a waste of resources.

 

[sadb0i]

hahah tell dell to put the gx110 in a gx200 tower...she'll never know...hahaha...and if dell wont do it..say you will call gateway!!!!

 

[MadAd]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GFORCE100]

For office work it's a waste yes. However if for a workstation system then no it's not. Depends on the person using the machine.