Purchasing Dell GX270, Need system Review

mkruer

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I was wondering if someone could review the system a am putting together for my business. After Purchasing the GX260 from Dell in the past, and having many users inform me that the system seem slow, I want to make sure the new systems will run faster for our business apps. Unfortunately because I am a peon I have to do what upper management says, I have to purchase the OptiPlex series. If I had my way I would just white box all the systems. The system should cost around 1000 without the monitor.

Thanks for the help
BTW this info is pulled from State & Local Government Section of Dell Site.

OptiPlex GX270 Small MiniTower: Pentium® 4 Processor 2.40GHz, 800FSB, 512K Cache, InteI Gigabit NIC
24G8T - [ 221-2810 ]

Memory: 1.0GB DDR Non-ECC SDRAM, 333MHz, (2 DIMMs)
1GN32 - [ 311-2865 ]

Keyboards: Dell PS/2 Keyboard, No Hot Keys
PS2 - [ 310-1515 ]

Monitor: No Monitor
N - [ 320-3704 ]

Video Card: 64MB, nVidia, GeForce 4MX, DVI w/VGA adapter
64VGA - [ 320-0687 ]

Boot Hard Drives: 40GB EIDE 7200RPM
40 - [ 340-8889 ]

Floppy Drive: 1.44MB 3.5 Inch Floppy Drive
3 - [ 340-8733 ]

Operating System(s): Windows® 2000 Professional SP3 with CD using NTFS
W2K3EC - [ 420-1558 ]

Mouse: Logitech USB 2-Button Optical Mouse with Scroll
USBL - [ 310-1470 ]

Integrated Network Adapter (NIC): Integrated Intel Gigabit (10/100/1000), with Alert Standards Format
INT - [ 430-0353 ]

Removable Media Storage Devices: 48X DVD-CDRW Combo Drive
COMBO48 - [ 313-1740 ]

Audio Solutions: Integrated Sound Blaster Compatible
INT - [ 313-8170 ]

Speakers: Internal Dell Business Audio Speaker
INT - [ 313-1495 ]

Documentation: Resources CD contains Diagnostics and Driver for Dell OptiPlex Systems
RCD - [ 313-7168 ]

Hardware Support Services: 3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year NBD On-Site Service
U3OS - [ 900-6602 900-6630 ]

Installation Support Services: No Installation
NOINSTL - [ 900-9987 ]
 

dexvx

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I have a GX260, and its nowhere near "slow" (but I guess it depends what you're using it for, and I'm doing some heavy computing at work). Its configuration is pretty much identical to yours, except its a 2.4B proc.

But if you pair it with DDR400 DIMMs, it should be faster.
 

Arcanedeath

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I use a 2.6Ghz GX270 w/ 512mb of DDR 400 at work and it seems fairly snappy as long as you do nothing at all graphics intensive also HT isn't enabled and I'm not sure if its supported in the Gx270's bios as I haven't bothered looking yet, but for E-mail, web surfing, runing various tracking software and MS Office pretty much all at once, it runs just fine, although I'd say my home system destroys it in all catagories except size and noise
 

mkruer

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Correct me if i am mistaken but the P4 2.4b is the one with the 800Mhz FSB with Hyper threading. If so then that would explain a lot. The original systems I had to get was the P4 2.0 with an 400Mhz FSB
 

dexvx

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Originally posted by: mkruer
Correct me if i am mistaken but the P4 2.4b is the one with the 800Mhz FSB with Hyper threading. If so then that would explain a lot. The original systems I had to get was the P4 2.0 with an 400Mhz FSB

2.4B was the 533FSB version. the 400FSB version was the 2.4A (or 2.0A or your case). The HT 800FSB are the C chips.
 

mkruer

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Ok I am wondering if is has more to do with the duel channel support in the 533 vs 400 which I think it did.
 

Stealth1024

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I set up 62 of the Dell GX270's with similar specs, but with 19" dell monitors and with the cool slim cases

Much easier to service and upgrade than I expected, but no room for a full height AGP card or a large PCI card.

Speed is great, however there is a hardware compatibility problem with Symantec Ghost 7.5 that we had to overcome.