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I'm number ONE !
Hi Gang !
Check out the article below, and see what computer was rated Number ONE ! http://tech.msn.com/products/article...4594343&page=1 Good to be at the Top-O-the-Heap ! Soon mine will have: 400MHz CPU 128Meg ram some hdd ( haven't decided) 256K L2 cache Sound Blaster 2 USB ports ( built onto motherboard ) 10/100 NIC Windows XP Pro Parts have all been assembled and tested, just need to install. My only concern is the rarest on the planet and potentially fragile PSU. -- boBWatts®© EartH Watts Carburetion Service Whizzbang Computers Official collector of: transfat asian plastic junk trinkets ! |
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I'm number ONE !
You must be quietly proud!
PC World is misguided on its #10 choice, a Dell Dimension 4600. If PC World insists on including a Dell model, my nominees would be the Optiplex GX270 (motherboard with blown capacitors) or the Inspiron 1000/1200/2200 notebook (perhaps the most cheesy notebook construction of all time with a marvelous 90-day warranty)... Ben Myers On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:23:35 -0400, "Robert E. Watts" wrote: Hi Gang ! Check out the article below, and see what computer was rated Number ONE ! http://tech.msn.com/products/article...4594343&page=1 Good to be at the Top-O-the-Heap ! Soon mine will have: 400MHz CPU 128Meg ram some hdd ( haven't decided) 256K L2 cache Sound Blaster 2 USB ports ( built onto motherboard ) 10/100 NIC Windows XP Pro Parts have all been assembled and tested, just need to install. My only concern is the rarest on the planet and potentially fragile PSU. |
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Hi Ben ! ( inserting comments as I go, as usual................. ) You must be quietly proud! Yep. It's always good to be Number One. PC World is misguided on its #10 choice, a Dell Dimension 4600. If PC World insists on including a Dell model, my nominees would be the Optiplex GX270 (motherboard with blown capacitors) or the Inspiron 1000/1200/2200 notebook (perhaps the most cheesy notebook construction of all time with a marvelous 90-day warranty)... Ben Myers Well, * I think * that empirical evidence is more important than opinions, and I think that a lot of magazines go more by opinions and advertising dollars than good sense or evidence. It's pretty safe to look back at recent history and pound someone like Packard Bell. I think the real reason they had so much trouble is that they sold so many computers ( to idiots ) at so many stores, you are bound to have problems. Although I could type about this for hours, I'm not going to. If you're interested, I have some Dell's in my computer collection in my Basement of Doom and Diet Cola. A couple of GX-260 (Pentium 4 ) models, a GX-150 ( Pentium 3 Socket 370 with Tualatin support, 815 B stepping chipset ), and various others. Interestingly, the GX-150 always acted somewhat strangely, with frequent lockups. It was originally a Coppermine 800MHz machine, which I upgraded to a 933MHz, then 1GHz, then 1.33GHz Tualatin. ( Just for grins ). I could never place the problem, it was pretty erratic. Then, recently, I opened it up to steal the 1.33GHz Tualatin for my Packard Bell Murano Project, and just happened to notice a "spot" on the motherboard. One of the electrolytic caps had "fallen" off, and a few other soldered on components were skewed. Also, the "spot" looked as if soldering flux had spilled on that area. There was greenish/white corrosion all over this area. AH HA ! Acquired another EXACT ( without the damage :-) motherboard, and after a 15 minute surgery, it was perfect, problem solved. As an aside, I am amazed at how easy ( sometimes ) Dell, Compaq, and a few others make it to change out stuff. I only had to remove one Phillips screw to swap out that motherboard. Completely tool free on everything else. Realy amazing. Both of the GX-260 machines have never had a problem. But if you go to a Compaq/IBM/Dell/Asus/(pick a newsgroup) newsgroup, you would think that every product these companies made was junk. People just don't think. bob -- boBWatts®© EartH Watts Carburetion Service Whizzbang Computers Official collector of: transfat asian plastic junk trinkets ! |
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I'm number ONE !
Bob,
Right. Dell Optiplexes, Dell Precisions and certain large clamshell tower Dell systems are a treat to maintain. Some of the smaller ones are not as easy but not bad, either. You can also swap a P4 board into that GX150. Been there and done it. Your choices would include GX240, GX260, (maybe) GX270, Precision 340/350/360, Dimension 8200/8250/8300. With a power supply swap, you could also insyall either a Dimension 8400 or a Precision 370 board. You would want to avoid the Dimension 8200/8250 and Precision 340/350 with RAMBUS memory... Ben On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:58:00 -0400, "Robert E. Watts" wrote: Hi Ben ! ( inserting comments as I go, as usual................. ) You must be quietly proud! Yep. It's always good to be Number One. PC World is misguided on its #10 choice, a Dell Dimension 4600. If PC World insists on including a Dell model, my nominees would be the Optiplex GX270 (motherboard with blown capacitors) or the Inspiron 1000/1200/2200 notebook (perhaps the most cheesy notebook construction of all time with a marvelous 90-day warranty)... Ben Myers Well, * I think * that empirical evidence is more important than opinions, and I think that a lot of magazines go more by opinions and advertising dollars than good sense or evidence. It's pretty safe to look back at recent history and pound someone like Packard Bell. I think the real reason they had so much trouble is that they sold so many computers ( to idiots ) at so many stores, you are bound to have problems. Although I could type about this for hours, I'm not going to. If you're interested, I have some Dell's in my computer collection in my Basement of Doom and Diet Cola. A couple of GX-260 (Pentium 4 ) models, a GX-150 ( Pentium 3 Socket 370 with Tualatin support, 815 B stepping chipset ), and various others. Interestingly, the GX-150 always acted somewhat strangely, with frequent lockups. It was originally a Coppermine 800MHz machine, which I upgraded to a 933MHz, then 1GHz, then 1.33GHz Tualatin. ( Just for grins ). I could never place the problem, it was pretty erratic. Then, recently, I opened it up to steal the 1.33GHz Tualatin for my Packard Bell Murano Project, and just happened to notice a "spot" on the motherboard. One of the electrolytic caps had "fallen" off, and a few other soldered on components were skewed. Also, the "spot" looked as if soldering flux had spilled on that area. There was greenish/white corrosion all over this area. AH HA ! Acquired another EXACT ( without the damage :-) motherboard, and after a 15 minute surgery, it was perfect, problem solved. As an aside, I am amazed at how easy ( sometimes ) Dell, Compaq, and a few others make it to change out stuff. I only had to remove one Phillips screw to swap out that motherboard. Completely tool free on everything else. Realy amazing. Both of the GX-260 machines have never had a problem. But if you go to a Compaq/IBM/Dell/Asus/(pick a newsgroup) newsgroup, you would think that every product these companies made was junk. People just don't think. bob |
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On Apr 15, 11:04 am, Ben Myers
wrote: Bob, Right. Dell Optiplexes, Dell Precisions and certain large clamshell tower Dell systems are a treat to maintain. Some of the smaller ones are not as easy but not bad, either. You can also swap a P4 board into that GX150. Been there and done it. Your choices would include GX240, GX260, (maybe) GX270, Precision 340/350/360, Dimension 8200/8250/8300. With a power supply swap, you could also insyall either a Dimension 8400 or a Precision 370 board. You would want to avoid the Dimension 8200/8250 and Precision 340/350 with RAMBUS memory... Ben On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:58:00 -0400, "Robert E. Watts" wrote: Hi Ben ! ( inserting comments as I go, as usual................. ) You must be quietly proud! Yep. It's always good to be Number One. PC World is misguided on its #10 choice, a Dell Dimension 4600. If PC World insists on including a Dell model, my nominees would be the Optiplex GX270 (motherboard with blown capacitors) or the Inspiron 1000/1200/2200 notebook (perhaps the most cheesy notebook construction of all time with a marvelous 90-day warranty)... Ben Myers Well, * I think * that empirical evidence is more important than opinions, and I think that a lot of magazines go more by opinions and advertising dollars than good sense or evidence. It's pretty safe to look back at recent history and pound someone like Packard Bell. I think the real reason they had so much trouble is that they sold so many computers ( to idiots ) at so many stores, you are bound to have problems. Although I could type about this for hours, I'm not going to. If you're interested, I have some Dell's in my computer collection in my Basement of Doom and Diet Cola. A couple of GX-260 (Pentium 4 ) models, a GX-150 ( Pentium 3 Socket 370 with Tualatin support, 815 B stepping chipset ), and various others. Interestingly, the GX-150 always acted somewhat strangely, with frequent lockups. It was originally a Coppermine 800MHz machine, which I upgraded to a 933MHz, then 1GHz, then 1.33GHz Tualatin. ( Just for grins ). I could never place the problem, it was pretty erratic. Then, recently, I opened it up to steal the 1.33GHz Tualatin for my Packard Bell Murano Project, and just happened to notice a "spot" on the motherboard. One of the electrolytic caps had "fallen" off, and a few other soldered on components were skewed. Also, the "spot" looked as if soldering flux had spilled on that area. There was greenish/white corrosion all over this area. AH HA ! Acquired another EXACT ( without the damage :-) motherboard, and after a 15 minute surgery, it was perfect, problem solved. As an aside, I am amazed at how easy ( sometimes ) Dell, Compaq, and a few others make it to change out stuff. I only had to remove one Phillips screw to swap out that motherboard. Completely tool free on everything else. Realy amazing. Both of the GX-260 machines have never had a problem. But if you go to a Compaq/IBM/Dell/Asus/(pick a newsgroup) newsgroup, you would think that every product these companies made was junk. People just don't think. bob- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - When comparing suck egg against suck ass it becomes hard to make a choice. I prefer suck egg. I doubt that anyone at PC WORlLD(6,99 Newstand Price) actually had any real world experience. I rank their magazine suck egg and their opinions suck ass. |
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