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] ]'> That's okay, at 2.8GHz, it's probably netburst-based. [
It's the NetBurst variant aka Northwood. It was built a month before Prescott came out which is fine with me as early Prescotts benchmark lower than the later Northwoods. As a XP machine, it's very speedy for most applications.
I was given the PW 470 because the Mobo developed the infamous popped capacitors disease and it was 3 days out of warranty. Dell refused to cover it (score points for Dell customer service!) under warranty so the customer replaced it with a new dual core Xeon box. He gave it to me and I took it home. With the application of several hours of time and $35.00 worth of caps, it's as good as new, maybe better.
Specs: Dual Xeon 2.8, 2GB DDR ECC reg RAM, 80GB Maxtor SATA drive (replaced with 2 160GB SATA SEagates out of my junk box), Ati Fire GL PCI-X video card, DVD-RW drive, CD-RW drive, Soundblaster Audigy 2 sound card, Gigabit LAN on motherboard.
All of my Dell's in my collection: XPS Pro 200, XPS-V350, XPS-V400, Dimension 4100, Power Edge 1300 (dual P3 550), Power Edge 1500SC (dual P3 1.3GHZ) , Precision Workstation 410 (dual P2-450), PW 470 (dual Xeon 2. 8) and my Micron Netframe Server (dual P3 550) were given to me by customers who out grew them or wanted a non-function unit disposed of.
Sounds like an awesome box, and the 470 was one of the ones that was capable of being used in desktop orientation, wasn't it? (I do quite like Dells that you can shove over on their side and plop underneath monitors)
I think it's somewhat silly that Dell wouldn't cover it, but I wouldn't expect most other companies to cover similar situations, so I can't blame them really.
I think it's somewhat silly that Dell wouldn't cover it, but I wouldn't expect most other companies to cover similar situations, so I can't blame them really.
Who wants Dual P III Xeons when you can build yourself a Athlon x2 64 system for like $150USD and have a waaaayyy more powerful system. It also has SATA and can support Opteron 4-core CPUs if you get the AM2 or 939 Socket. I have an Athlon x2 64 1.9Ghz w/ 2GB RAM and a Radeon 9550 AGP 8x 256MB card. I think it cost me like $300 Total to build. Waaayyy faster than the later P III Xeons. And it's damn nice too 
By that logic, why would anyone want a Daystar Genesis or a Mac IIfx or a Quadra 700/700/900? Because it's cool, because it can still do useful work? What is your opinion? If your only interest is the lastest and greatest, why hang out on an old hardware centric site? I'm not trying to start a flame war, just curious.Who wants Dual P III Xeons when you can build yourself a Athlon x2 64 system for like $150USD and have a waaaayyy more powerful system. It also has SATA and can support Opteron 4-core CPUs if you get the AM2 or 939 Socket. I have an Athlon x2 64 1.9Ghz w/ 2GB RAM and a Radeon 9550 AGP 8x 256MB card. I think it cost me like $300 Total to build. Waaayyy faster than the later P III Xeons. And it's damn nice too
The PW470 in question is a P4 Xeon family machine with onboard SATA RAID and free is still cheaper than a build it yourself system.
BTW, I'm typing this on a Athlon x2-64 system.
I was just kinda bragging. Actually, I think ANYTHING Dual-XEON system is really cool. I wouldn't mind something like a Dual XEON 1.1Ghz w/ DDR-SDRAM. Maybe 2GB of it? Then how about tri-400GB (RAID-1 + Parity) and maybe a 200GB for the OS??
Man, it's stuff like this that makes me drool. Sadly, this guy's XEON outpaces my modern machine. That fact that he has SATA and PCI-Express. Man, i still have PCI and AGP 8x. It sucks sooo bad on that.
Man, it's stuff like this that makes me drool. Sadly, this guy's XEON outpaces my modern machine. That fact that he has SATA and PCI-Express. Man, i still have PCI and AGP 8x. It sucks sooo bad on that.
You can install the GUI on the server version of Ubuntu too.
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