Cyberdeals dell server

[IAmMoen]

Someone should get one of these
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bEPDp3k&s=bsd
8 core for $900. Or we could all buy one and give those aussies a good run.
"Why did the time to catch us get cut in half? Crap."

But really would this be good ratio of price to pointsperday?

[ihrsetrdr]

Someone should get one of these
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bEPDp3k&s=bsd
8 core for $900. Or we could all buy one and give those aussies a good run.
"Why did the time to catch us get cut in half? Crap."

But really would this be good ratio of price to pointsperday?

Hey, mine got pricey! :eek:

My shopping cart-
PowerEdge 1900
Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5365, 2x4MB Cache, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB, No Operating System: $3,397.00

[thideras]

Yeah, but by default you can upgrade to a quad for free, but to add the second one, it is 266 more :-/

[petteyg359]

No it's not. Choose the following:
CPU 1:
Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5310, 2x4MB Cache, 1.60GHz, 1066MHz FSB [add $0]
CPU 2:
DISCOUNTED UPGRADE! Quad Core Xeon E5310, 2x4MB Cache, 1.60GHz [add $0]

Total price if you don't add anything else comes out to the mentioned $899. If I had $1000 to spare I buy that in a second...

[DorianBrytestar]

Crap, you were right, dual duals for no additional charge, but the quads are more =(


Edit: Hmm, you can go with two Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5310, 2x4MB Cache, 1.60GHz, 1066MHz FSB for the same price...

[CGR]

Came out to be $900 for me..

Nm I see the Xeon 5310 options now.

[DorianBrytestar]

So 8 cores @ 1.6 ghz...

[petteyg359]

Could ask for $10 AAR donations on the front page and see how many of these could be afforded :cool:

[benbaked]

So 8 cores @ 1.6 ghz...

Should roughly fold the same as a 3.2 GHz quad, I think, so is it really worth it for $900? You can build a quad for probably a little over half of that price and shouldn't have much issue getting it to 3.2.

[DorianBrytestar]

My current quad build is right at $680 or so.

Hopefully I can turn it from a wish list to an order soon =)

[petteyg359]

Since when is a single-core at twice the speed of a dual core the same power? Two cores at half speed will ALWAYS outperform one core at twice that speed on something multi-threaded such as F@H. Same for 8 and 4...

[VinnyTAMU]

This is the best deal that I have seen through Dell:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d6/VinnyTAMU/Details.jpg

Also I believe this is a pin-mod available to run the two quads at 1333 FSB, therefore running them at 2.0Ghz.

Here is the LINK (http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bscwfk1&s=bsd&fb=1&vw=classic)

[pscout]

I'm thinking along ben's line ...the dells won't oc, and a single quad should be able to get >= 3.0 ghz, a cheap mobo like a p35-ds3l, and potential memory oc I expect a custom build will come out ahead.

It is nice to see downward pressure on prices.