[Tfug] Inexpensive 1U Server Suggestions

Jim Secan jim at nwra.com
Thu Feb 2 15:04:34 MST 2006


At 02:54 PM 2/2/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>That being said... I have now sworn off Dell laptops as inferior quality.
They 
>seem to pack to much in without sufficent cooling, putting the chipset and 
>grapics card back-to-back with only a heatsink and a fan that doesn't turn
on 
>until 70C... Went through 3 motherboards on my last and final Inspiron, all 
>died initially of memory errors, followed later by complete refusal to boot 
>due to fried chipsets... The memory itself is/was fine.

Thanks - I'll see what quality of memory chips were being tried (and I
agree with you RE the quality of recent Dell laptops - nevermore).

Jim
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