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Does the motherboard come with an AGP slot, though?
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Good question. Kaak?
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yah
how easy would be to hook up a decent video card
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The only problem is that I can't get it shipped to Finland.
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The only chance is that I ask someone in the States to receive it and forward it to me.
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no idea...I don't work in business sales. My old roommate does, and he is the one who gave me the heads up. Memory is generally cheaper to add yourself, and yes it can be used as a personal computer, Xeon processors use hyper threading too it looks like there is an integrated 8MB graphics card, and no agp slot, so you would have to disable it and use a PCI graphics card.
however, the MB will support up to 1.752 terrabytes of SCSI drives, and 4 GB of DDR SDRAM"Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
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oh, one other interesting note...the motherboard is a dual processor MB, so when you get ready, you can just pop in another Xeon
for full specs, click: http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/produc...dge_1600sc.htm
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bad link
I was seriously considering this (spend an 2 hours last night thinking about it)
decided that I didn't need the computational power right now, and that I would better weight until next fall (when stuff would be cheaper and better)l even though I wouldn't get as good a deal
I have a athlon 1Gz, 768 MB Ram, 40 GB (100) harddrive, 80 GB 8MB cache (100) harddrive, Radeon 9000 Pro
so I am not hurting for a computer
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and the best graphics card (PCI) I could see is a Radeon 7000, which is pretty weakOriginally posted by Kaak
no idea...I don't work in business sales. My old roommate does, and he is the one who gave me the heads up. Memory is generally cheaper to add yourself, and yes it can be used as a personal computer, Xeon processors use hyper threading too it looks like there is an integrated 8MB graphics card, and no agp slot, so you would have to disable it and use a PCI graphics card.
however, the MB will support up to 1.752 terrabytes of SCSI drives, and 4 GB of DDR SDRAM
the extra processor and the like would just be covering for the graphics card with many new games, and as I said, I don't need the computational power right now (I would like it though)
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yeah, the system isn't great for games. but, for people like me, it's perfect
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"I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."Comment
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bump for those that haven't seen it..."Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
"I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."Comment
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--"and the best graphics card (PCI) I could see is a Radeon 7000, which is pretty weak"
Well, the box does include a PCI-X slot as well. Not sure what kind of cards are available for it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a workstation graphics card with PCI-X support.
In any case, looks interesting. Bit power hungry, of course, but all the Xeons are. Wouldn't mind the drives, but honestly, I don't really have a use for it at the moment. I'd rather not pay the power bills... if I need storage I'll put together a nice box with SATA and a low-power processor as a file server.
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well, deal is over...they caught it and raised the price by $250"Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
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Oh well, I can get a good machine for $420 bucks, with a great graphics card AGP 8X and 1800+ cpu AMD. etc.
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hmm, thats virtually identical to my system, interestingOriginally posted by Jon Miller
bad link
I was seriously considering this (spend an 2 hours last night thinking about it)
decided that I didn't need the computational power right now, and that I would better weight until next fall (when stuff would be cheaper and better)l even though I wouldn't get as good a deal
I have a athlon 1Gz, 768 MB Ram, 40 GB (100) harddrive, 80 GB 8MB cache (100) harddrive, Radeon 9000 Pro
so I am not hurting for a computer
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