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Posted at 9:05 AM on Friday 01/9/09 by
Ben
Hotness UNHOT
Dell Business has the Dell PowerEdge T105 Server configured with 2GB 800MHz Memory (2x1GB) for $329 + $25 shipping = $354 shipped. Free upgrade to 16X SATA DVD Drive.

  • Dual Core AMD Opteron 1212 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, Gigabit Network Adapter
  • Dual 160GB SATA 3Gbps, 16X SATA DVD Drive, 1-Yr Warranty, No OS
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      oscar5453 - Posted 9:07 am PST 01/9/09 (731 Posts)  Report Spam

      Not worth it.

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      dandragonrage - Posted 9:29 am PST 01/9/09 (594 Posts)  Report Spam

      AMD? Are they that company that sucks?

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      junkmonkey - Posted 9:29 am PST 01/9/09 (10 Posts)  Report Spam

      Perfect for my wireless connection that have to connect to a VPN for network/internet access.

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      wifimoocher - Posted 10:19 am PST 01/9/09 (132 Posts)  Report Spam

      Yes, it has a built in video that's barely good enough for internet surfing. If you are getting this for a desktop, DON'T!

      The mod for the SC420 8x to 16x is for a 16x slot that was spaced out for a 8x.
      The T105 slot is a 8x and does not fit any 16x other than using a riser card. There is no mod for it!

      I was going to mod this for a desktop but now I have no choice to use it for a server. The video on this system is for SERVER use ONLY!

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      tehduke - Posted 11:16 am PST 01/9/09 (418 Posts)  Report Spam

      Why would you buy a server to use as a desktop? Would you use a screwdriver as a hammer?

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      jsehlms - Posted 11:17 am PST 01/9/09 (77 Posts)  Report Spam

      Wow, who'd a thought the video card on a server would only be good for a SERVER.

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      cd - Posted 11:25 am PST 01/9/09 (498 Posts)  Report Spam

      This is a decent low-end server and will work fine for FTP, Internet, Files or Print. Dell workstations are so cheap now, not worth trying to convert a server. Since the SC420, Dell has shutdown any hopes of creating a decent desktop from their servers.

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      techsupport - Posted 12:18 pm PST 01/9/09 (5127 Posts)  Report Spam

      #4 should have saved us all some reading and just wrote "Hey, I'm a stupid burp thumbplum!"

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      2133 - Posted 12:42 pm PST 01/9/09 (953 Posts)  Report Spam

      lol at #4. rodeo cowboy.

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      sethook - Posted 12:52 pm PST 01/9/09 (1582 Posts)  Report Spam

      What would we do without #4s of the world?

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      agulfer - Posted 1:09 pm PST 01/9/09 (532 Posts)  Report Spam

      Tough day to be a #4

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      krusty - Posted 1:14 pm PST 01/9/09 (1109 Posts)  Report Spam

      I bought an SC400 which matched the specs of a desktop from Dell that cost quite a bit more. Back then you could add a decent video card and you had to buy windows but it still came in well under a comparable Dimension.

      No longer.

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      David2009 - Posted 1:16 pm PST 01/9/09 (31 Posts)  Report Spam

      totally not worth it

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      bargainhound - Posted 1:53 pm PST 01/9/09 (415 Posts)  Report Spam

      i still have an sc400 i'm looking to sell. anybody interested?

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      seraphim32 - Posted 1:57 pm PST 01/9/09 (81 Posts)  Report Spam

      be carefull with these dont think you can use any raid cards besides theirs. so if you wanted to add more drives you will have to buy their card, and there goes that deal.

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      Jmirt - Posted 3:29 pm PST 01/9/09 (17 Posts)  Report Spam

      Just get any PCI video card and you have powerfull workstation... $15-30 for dual DVI head ATI

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      rjs - Posted 5:12 pm PST 01/9/09 (491 Posts)  Report Spam

      Lots of folks miss the "server" part of that "server" designation.

      A PCI video card -should- help, though.

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      starchy - Posted 7:33 pm PST 01/9/09 (254 Posts)  Report Spam

      I have an SC420 that I never bothered to mod (long story). Added a PCI card- an Nvidia 5300 or something like that. I helps a LOT. The built in video may have Direct X 9 or 10 but I doubt seriously that it has more than 8 or 16 megs of dedicated memory, probably none (probably just shares main board memory). Even the crappy 5000 series PCI card has 128 megs and runs as a much higher clock speed. Not a gaming rig by any stretch, but you could play casual games, older 3D stuff w/ no problem and do most any other thing you'd want to do w/ this machine.

      Will your experience be the same on this machine? Who knows. But the system itself is so much faster than my old 420 that I have to believe the overall experience would be better.

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