Subj : Re: Gaming (Windows) PC: buil
To   : Tracker1
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Jul 20 2021 07:20 am

-=> Tracker1 wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

 Tr> Dell are effectively hot garbage e-waste... half the parts in newer
 Tr> systems are completely proprietary, even the power supply and
 Tr> motherboards on many of them right now.  And while some are 12V only,
 Tr> they aren't the new standard even.

It's a shame. I loved the old Precision workstations - built like tanks, I 
had one running for 12 years here.

The Optiplex 9XXX series towers were nice low-end "servers", with onboard 
RAID and the ability to have 32 GB of RAM in 2010. I'd max them out on RAM, 
put 2 SATA drives in them, and use them as departmental servers or high-end 
desktops.

They did have a couple of black marks at the same time - the GX270 desktops 
that popped the caps nearest the power supply vent, and the D630 laptops 
that fried their video chipsets. Dell's solution for the former was to send 
out replacement motherboards with the same problem and a BIOS update for the 
latter that just ran the fan 100% of the time.



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