schw32m
New Member
Before we get started lets waylay all the Dell jokes, please. I have heard them all and I hold the opinion, at least as far as working on them, that the only good Dell is a dead Dell. Good for what they are they work adequately for what you get.
I would never buy one.
Given all of that and due to several threads the last few days or so dealing with Dells, I decided to try a little experiment. Swapping the guts of a Dell into a standard ATX mid tower.
The beastie below is a dimension 4550 configured as follows:
Intel (dells design) 865 socket 478 P-4 (2.53 Ghz Northwood core)
GeForce MX4
1 GB DDR ram
100Gb 5400 IDE HDD
DVD/R & CD/RW
FDD
Windows XP Pro
These things are heavy and I really dislike the clam shell case. However I do see a lot of these of similar design as they are rugged and seem to hold up fairly well.
I would never buy one.
Given all of that and due to several threads the last few days or so dealing with Dells, I decided to try a little experiment. Swapping the guts of a Dell into a standard ATX mid tower.
The beastie below is a dimension 4550 configured as follows:
Intel (dells design) 865 socket 478 P-4 (2.53 Ghz Northwood core)
GeForce MX4
1 GB DDR ram
100Gb 5400 IDE HDD
DVD/R & CD/RW
FDD
Windows XP Pro
These things are heavy and I really dislike the clam shell case. However I do see a lot of these of similar design as they are rugged and seem to hold up fairly well.