Dell T5810 Sale... $810, well configured

Scataphagos

Scataphagos

A good deal on a quality trading rig, or a measure of comparison vs. other. Xeon E5-1620 v4, 8GB ECC RAM. W7-64/W10.

If interested, respond to this thread and I'll try to post a link.
 
Peter Dougherty said:
I may be interested in a new/refurbished trading computer.
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Sorry, that deal as posted $810 has been changed to $1149.

I'm a lonnnnnng time fan of Dell Precision workstations. The Precision T5810 with Xeon E5-1620 CPU has been for sale ~$850 a few times.... $650 even a couple of times. The $650 price would be a steal. The $850 price would be "good". At $1149, I'd wait for better.

You might want to check Dell Outlet from time-to-time to catch a deal. The warranty on Dell Precision from the outlet store is the same as new... 3-years.

Dell Precision Line is their best, IMV. Get one of those at a good price and you'll likely be "happy long time".
 
"happy long time"... preceded with "I make you"

Reminds me of my younger days... lol

+1 on Dell precision (outlet)

Get a bare bones system,
Pick up a Samsung evo 850 - 250gb/500gb SSD - from Newegg/Amazon
Clone the OS to new drive with "Macrium Reflect" imaging/cloning software (free sufficient)
Stuff in some ram

U B "happy long time...."
 
NoBias said:
U B "happy long time...."
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And then, there is "short time, $4". I remember once... I told some girl, "payday is tomorrow... I have only $3.85" and asked if we could work a deal... or that I would pay her tomorrow. She said, "No. You come back tomorrow or go borrow $0.15"... LOL! (No, I didn't "go borrow $.015", but I did get a chuckle. I may or may not have "gone back tomorrow"... I don't recall specifically.)
 
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just21 said:
Why the xeon e5 1620 processor and not the xeon e5 1603? What do you use hyperthreading for?

The lowest priced ones ($959) have the nvidia nvs 310 dual graphics card which is all you need for trading.

http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...s=28&l=en&s=dfb&dgc=IR&cid=260177&lid=4677450

Click on the left 5810
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The E5-1603/07s are "dumbed down".... run RAM at slower speed, too. I guess that's to encourage buyers to pay up for the E5-1620 or better? The 1620s are usually more expensive, but not always in a system already configured. And yes, the 1603/07s are plenty good enough for trading.
 
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lylec305 said:
why xeon 4 core when you can have 6 for half the price.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z800-Wor...096247?hash=item4893f731f7:g:n4IAAOSweWVXfepG

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5660+@+2.80GHz&id=1305&cpuCount=2
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Few things wrong...

This is from the same time as Dell T3500. Mobo could be 9 years old with SATA II and USB 2.0.

The Passmark you showed is for "Dual CPU configuration". Single CPU Passmark for the X5660 is 7954.... and that's only if all 6 cores are running at 100%.

The T5810 is new, or effectively so, and has 3 year warranty.

However, the HP would be plenty good for trading.
 
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