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Cheap Dual-Core?
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Thursday, 2-March-2006 21:36:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Here's a bit of an odd one. Apparently it ends today, which may mean only a few hours to go. But anyway. On this Dell page they're showing a $299 (plus $99 delivery) server machine with a free upgrade to dual-core Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU. That CPU is worth pretty much the asking price of the whole box by itself, never mind the 80GB hdd and 256MB of DDR2, PSU, etc. It's been on the site for a few days so I assume it's not a pricing error. Could be a good way to add some extra firepower to your Folding@Home farm, or get a cheap workstation. It has integrated graphics but also PCIe, so presumably it would serve as a decent desktop machine.. hmm.
Edit: ahh, ECC memory only, and PCIe X8 only (not X16).. which will make it less attractive. But still not a bad way to add some Folding grunt. Or will we be seeing a few chassis+mobo for sale on eBay, while people keep the CPU, HDD etc..
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