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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 4:46 am    Post subject: Good deal @ Dell.com Reply with quote

First off, yes, I do know it's 4:30 am.

I just bought a Dell poweredge 600SC... P4 2.8, 128MB, 40GB HD, everything else neutered. After taxes, $396. (basically bought it for the CPU, the rest are just goodies)

Dell has a bigtime deal with upgrades from celeron 1.8, to P4 2.4/533 for free, and I chose to go up to 2.8 for $99...

There's $110 instant discount, 5% off coupon, and a $100 mail in rebate.

I plan to build my new gaming system around that 2.8 CPU, and I'll have some good stuff left over

It's in the small business section, so you might have to sort of fudge a little

Details can be found here: Tech Bargains
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just looked....

$389 before tax but with free shipping and a $100 mail in rebate so $289 plus tax which for me was $23. Add the coupon code of 8D2755970FD4 which takes off another 20 or so dollars netting the final price under $300.

For that you get a P4 2.4 gig (533 MHz bus), 128 meg ram, 40 gig drive, keyboard, mouse, 1 year on site warranty, built in video and network.

Pretty cheap, huh?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a good deal if you want it to be a host server, but if you are wanting to use it as the machine you play from, it has no AGP slot... so stuck w/ integrated GFX
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BOOOOO!!!!!! Package Computers are bad bad bad, ONLY CUSTOM are good.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i r too stupid to make a custom
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, it's going to be a custom job... I think the case and the CPU are all that'll be left in it when I'm done.

The motherboard, hard drive, cdrom, PSU, and memory are going to get "spun off" into something else.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In that case it's a good deal.. throw in a different mobo, and some pieces and u have a kick booty PC.. plus extra pieces for something else, like a file server or something
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CuRiOuS gEoRgE wrote:
i r too stupid to make a custom



U iz...h4 h4 h4
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not worth it to buy any computer with integrated video or audio. Your better off getting something that's seperate. It may look good on paper but give it a few months when your ready to upgrade, then your FUBAR
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It's not worth it to buy any computer with integrated video or audio.



Hallelujah!

All-in-1ders are crapatola. #alien

If you actually want to ever be able to upgrade, you can not go with an all-in-1der.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check out www.emachines.com they are fully upgradeable and offer matched chip sets.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check out www.emachines.com they are fully upgradeable and offer matched chip sets.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

_-=Did It Hurt=-_ wrote:
Check out www.emachines.com they are fully upgradeable and offer matched chip sets.


From what I've seen, those are the biggest pieces of **** out there. But then again I remember when Huffy was a piece of **** bicycle too
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bright Red Nipples wrote:
_-=Did It Hurt=-_ wrote:
Check out www.emachines.com they are fully upgradeable and offer matched chip sets.


From what I've seen, those are the biggest pieces of **** out there. But then again I remember when Huffy was a piece of **** bicycle too


Ya, I've heard nightmare stories about emachines and not being compatible with jack sh|t. Compaq has some good deals sometimes also, but the best thing like others said dont get anything that doesnt have an AGP slot. You can at least disable on board stuff via the bios. Myself I just would rather build my own.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bright Red Nipples wrote:
_-=Did It Hurt=-_ wrote:
Check out www.emachines.com they are fully upgradeable and offer matched chip sets.


From what I've seen, those are the biggest pieces of **** out there. But then again I remember when Huffy was a piece of **** bicycle too


Ya, I've heard nightmare stories about emachines and not being compatible with jack sh|t. Compaq has some good deals sometimes also, but the best thing like others said dont get anything that doesnt have an AGP slot. You can at least disable on board stuff via the bios. Myself I just would rather build my own.
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