I was just on one of my favorite sites, and found this information about a new Compaq Server/Workstation that is really cheap.

www.slickdeals.net

Check it out, before it expires.

Specs on server:
- Dual 933MHZ Xeon Processors
- 512 MB of RAM (RDRAM6)
- 18 GIG SCSI HD
- Integrated dual channel Ultra3 (Ultra 160) SCSI and Ultra ATA/66
- Seven total slots (six available, two 64-bit/66-MHz PCI, four 32-bit/33-MHz PCI, one AGP Pro 4X)
- Full-featured Intel 840 chipset with 133-MHz front side bus, dual memory channels, dual-peer PCI buses, and 64-bit PCI
- WinNT or Win2K
- and more!

All of this for $840.00!!!

No thats not a typo, its real, and thats directly from Compaq. Its incredable.

Everyone check it out!

Jim

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Wow! .... I would get this , except for the RDRAM ;(

Ouch... gotta kill it with the RDRAM. Probably doesn't even perform that well with the slow bus speed of this proc.

RDRam needs a fast bus to take advantage, like the 400Mhz of the P4. Not to mention it's a dead upgrade path, and it might only hold 512MB ram.

Other then that... good deal!
:D :stickout :D

I saw that too.

I think it is a great price. :cool:

Is there anyone on the planet that builds a less reliable computer than Compaq? :rolleyes:

Originally posted by scott2
Is there anyone on the planet that builds a less reliable computer than Compaq? :rolleyes:

I don't know if they're still around, but Packard Bell, or AST. :erm:

Yup, you're right. I had a Packard Bell Pentium 100... the only computer to ever overheat while I was workin. I had to turn it off after a few hours and let it cool down and then it would run fine, and of course, no room to add another fan. The floppy drive even quit. Luckily, they stopped making compters.

But Compaq is running a close second as far as loading in the really cheap hardware, horrible 'add on' junk to bloat out the OS, and then really crappy support to top it off. :puke:

Is there anyone on the planet that builds a less reliable computer than Compaq?

Well I work for a top pharmacy company that is fortune 500 and is widely recognized across the board. The company uses the Compaq Deskpro 1GHZ integrated machines with small form factor cases and the Armada M700 laptop with the EN docking stations. We also are using the the EN 400 travel laptops. Along with the Compaq IPAQ 3870

So this big company, don't want to name the company, but does buy a ton of Compaq stuff, along with my actual employer (I am contracted out to this big pharamcy company) uses all compaq stuff.











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My Second PC was a Packard Bell 486 sx with 4 megs of ram running dos 6.22 and windows for workgroups 3.11 I still have this machine have made no updates have never had to replace any hardware, still runs like a beaut. Even the monitor is like in mint condition I ran this computer ragged for close to three years and it never skipped a beat. If memory serves my correctly I got this system back in spring of 93. So not all packard bells were junk maybe you just didn't know how to treat her.

Wow! That was also my second pc

When I was in the army, my room mate got a packard bell even though I warned him not to. Most of the components needed to be replaced within a year.

Then, my parents bought one for their first PC. I didn't even know my parents wanted a computer. They called me up and said "We bought a new computer". Turns out that this one ran for over a year before the motherboard went bad.

This was awhile ago, of course.

Packard bell and Compaq aren't necessarily bad because they died real fast. They're bad because of the incredibly cheap, and totally integrated components that they use. Makes it hard to repair/upgrade. Also, their technical support was terrible.

But Compaq machines are cheap, so you get what you paid for I guess.

Of course their server class machines have never been cheap, and has very expensive support. So I guess you get what you paid for there, too.