Dell Precision T3400

[gnome]

Quote from DirkDigler:

Not a bad deal on Dell's website, bare bones T3400 for $419.

http://www.dell.com/content/product...n_t3400?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=bundlestab

Cheapest X38 mobo on Newegg is $199. Then a copy of XP Pro for $99... and the rest of the machine for $121? Don't see how anyone in the market could pass up this deal.

 

[Landis82]

Gnome,

Excellent idea!

Basically, you can purchase the bare bones T3400 with the 525 watt Power supply and an additional nVidia NVS-290 PCIe-16x card for $550.00 and that includes Windows XP Pro and a 3-year warranty!

Then, you can purchase 2 x 1GB of PC-6400 800 MHz RAM from the Dell accessory site for $90.00 This is far cheaper than upgrading via the build option on the T3400 site.

Then, go to New Egg and purchase the new Intel Wolfdale E8400 3.0 GHz Dual-Core processor with the 6MB L2 cache for $260.00 This will be far cheaper than paying upwards of $509 at Dell for the E6850 at 3.0 GHz but only with 4 MB of L2 cache.

550 + 90 + 260 = $900 + tax

 

[jficquette]

Quote from Landis82:

Gnome,

Excellent idea!

Basically, you can purchase the bare bones T3400 with the 525 watt Power supply and an additional nVidia NVS-290 PCIe-16x card for $550.00 and that includes Windows XP Pro and a 3-year warranty!

Then, you can purchase 2 x 1GB of PC-6400 800 MHz RAM from the Dell accessory site for $90.00 This is far cheaper than upgrading via the build option on the T3400 site.

Then, go to New Egg and purchase the new Intel Wolfdale E8400 3.0 GHz Dual-Core processor with the 6MB L2 cache for $260.00 This will be far cheaper than paying upwards of $509 at Dell for the E6850 at 3.0 GHz but only with 4 MB of L2 cache.

550 + 90 + 260 = $900 + tax

You could spent $15 for the dvi splitter and not have to buy the extra card.

John

 

[gnome]

Quote from jficquette:

You could spent $15 for the dvi splitter and not have to buy the extra card.

John

Not true. A "splitter" only gets you a degraded image of the same thing on 2 monitors.

 

[jficquette]

Quote from gnome:

Not true. A "splitter" only gets you a degraded image of the same thing on 2 monitors.

Well, I was told you couldn't get a pci card in either.

John

 

[gnome]

Quote from jficquette:

Well, I was told you couldn't get a pci card in either.

John

That's ALSO not true... sheesh! You're apparently getting bum info all around... must be talking to a Dell rep...

 

[jficquette]

Quote from gnome:

That's ALSO not true... sheesh!

I guess I am dreaming and this monitor running off the pci card is a mirage.

You just don't know how to do it. Dinoman does.

John

 

[gnome]

Quote from jficquette:

I guess I am dreaming and this monitor running off the pci card is a mirage.

You just don't know how to do it. Dinoman does.

John

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"... Yes, PCI works just fine so long as the video cards are compatible and the mobo/chipset cooperates.

Oh, I know how to do it plenty good. I've had multi-card rigs for 10 years.

 

[gnome]

Quote from Landis82:

Gnome,

Excellent idea!

Basically, you can purchase the bare bones T3400 with the 525 watt Power supply and an additional nVidia NVS-290 PCIe-16x card for $550.00 and that includes Windows XP Pro and a 3-year warranty!

Then, you can purchase 2 x 1GB of PC-6400 800 MHz RAM from the Dell accessory site for $90.00 This is far cheaper than upgrading via the build option on the T3400 site.

Then, go to New Egg and purchase the new Intel Wolfdale E8400 3.0 GHz Dual-Core processor with the 6MB L2 cache for $260.00 This will be far cheaper than paying upwards of $509 at Dell for the E6850 at 3.0 GHz but only with 4 MB of L2 cache.

550 + 90 + 260 = $900 + tax

I know you were looking for a deal... did you take this one?

 

[gnome]

Too late... the $419 deal has come and gone... hope somebody took advantage.