dusty321(Elite) posted this on Thursday, 16th March 2006, 22:12
Worth a punt or not. Im running a slow old Celeron 2Ghz!
Product Description Compaq Evo W6000 Xeon 1.7 Ghz PC CPU Intel Xeon 1.7GHz (Dual Xeon Processor Ready) HDD SCSILW160 18.2 ULTRA3 SCSI 10K Hdd RAM 512 Mb - 2 x Kingston KTC7338/256 PC 800 ECC RDRAM Devices Floppy Drive, Network Card, Sound Card,CDROM,Dual Display Matrox Graphics Card Condition Used Additional Ideal Business or Student PC... Warranty 30 Days RTB Weight 10000g Operating System Windows 2000 Pro COA License NO SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED OR PRELOADED
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RE: What do you lot think for £150?
Rassilon(Elite) posted this on Friday, 17th March 2006, 00:00
Its a server.
Functional but its still a server, which will run perfectly as a PC I might add..
You might be better off putting some money into additional memory, just boosted THO`s 1.7Ghz Celeron laptop by 128Mb to 256Mb which boosted performance no end.
I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you've noticed.) You don't normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.
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RE: What do you lot think for £150?
JimD(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 17th March 2006, 15:29
Sorry to disagree, but the EvoW6000 was marketed by Compaq as a mid to high end graphics workstation - I bought about 20 of them 3.5 years ago. I bought them with 1Gb RAM, 2GHz processors & high end graphics cards (at the time). We still use them for CAD application. The advantage of the Xeon over a P4 is that it has a much larger instruction cache, which really helps CAD fly.
If the m/c seems sound & I would give it a punt.
RE: What do you lot think for £150?
MikeElliot(Elite) posted this on Friday, 17th March 2006, 16:49
Yes it is a good price and it is server spec so maybe a little noisy. You will find it difficult to upgrade the hard disc cheaply though as it may not support IDE drives. Ultra Wide SCSI is very expensive.
RE: What do you lot think for £150?
dusty321(Elite) posted this on Friday, 17th March 2006, 19:17
CHRIST, the memory costs a fortune!
Thanks for the posts fella`s!
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"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve (1953-2004)
