DELL PowerEdge SC440

[SandEagle]

http://configure.us.dell.com/d...atures~featured_server

This is a superhot deal for an entry-level server.

Dual Core Intel® Pentium®E2180, 2.0GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB
512MB DDR2, 667MHz, 1X512MB Single Ranked DIMMs
80GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive, Primary
48X CD-ROM Drive

 

[onza]

groovy

 

[Denithor]

And it's definitely worth an extra $19 to increase from 512MB -> 2GB DDR2. This looks like a pretty nice setup, too bad I have to pay shipping & tax...

EDIT: Ouch. Shipping is $69 and tax adds nearly $20 so with the memory upgrade I'd be looking at >$300. Suddenly not such a great deal.

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: Denithor
And it's definitely worth an extra $19 to increase from 512MB -> 2GB DDR2. This looks like a pretty nice setup, too bad I have to pay shipping & tax...

EDIT: Ouch. Shipping is $69 and tax adds nearly $20 so with the memory upgrade I'd be looking at >$300. Suddenly not such a great deal.

open a business premier account and you get free shipping (designated carrier). or for 19.99 3-5 days. my total comes out to 212 with shipping and tax.

 

[ivan2]

no OS. dedicated linux box i guess.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Denithor
And it's definitely worth an extra $19 to increase from 512MB -> 2GB DDR2. This looks like a pretty nice setup, too bad I have to pay shipping & tax...

EDIT: Ouch. Shipping is $69 and tax adds nearly $20 so with the memory upgrade I'd be looking at >$300. Suddenly not such a great deal.

Ground shipping is $20.

Does anyone know if this will run an E4600, or an E8200?

 

[ViviTheMage]

How loud are these things?

i want to run it 24/7 as my server, but it would have to be pretty quiet...

And what CPU's does it support?

 

[ViviTheMage]

FW guys say this is a quiet machine.

I assume this will be an upgrade over my P$ 3.2/wHT and 1 gig of ram server ;-p.

 

[TankGuys]

Nice, bought one myself

 

[IksokChoy]

Pretty Quiet. I've been running same setup for 6 mos. No problem.

 

[Pyroclazm]

Does the 8x PCI Slot have a 16x physical connector? IE: Can I put a 16x card into this slot and only run on the 8 lanes, if I know the card supports it.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Pyroclazm
Does the 8x PCI Slot have a 16x physical connector? IE: Can I put a 16x card into this slot and only run on the 8 lanes, if I know the card supports it.

No.

 

[waffleironhead]

Maybe you could cut the end of the slot with a dremel to allow you to insert a X16 card into it

 

[Delbert]

A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

 

[JmsAndrsn]

Originally posted by: Delbert
A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

www.poweredgeforums.com

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: JmsAndrsn

Originally posted by: Delbert
A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

www.poweredgeforums.com

I think they had to change the name of their site.

http://www.serveredge.net

That's the new name.

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: Delbert
A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

Yes. People are still active on that forum but not like the 400SC days. I think RossMAN still owns the site after Oliver transferred it to him but others run it.


OT: Anyone know what the scoop is on RossMAN's disappearance from here? I heard some chatter but don't know what happened. You can PM me if you know to keep it out of this HD discussion.
Last Visited On: 3/20/2008 9:36:19 AM

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: Lanyap

Originally posted by: Delbert
A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

Yes. People are still active on that forum but not like the 400SC days. I think RossMAN still owns the site after Oliver transferred it to him but others run it.


OT: Anyone know what the scoop is on RossMAN's disappearance from here? I heard some chatter but don't know what happened. You can PM me if you know to keep it out of this HD discussion.
Last Visited On: 3/20/2008 9:36:19 AM

wow, awesome, you're grand nagus too

last i heard he hit 70k posts, and decided to "retire" from AT forums :beer:

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: Lanyap

Originally posted by: Delbert
A little Ot, but what happened to the poweredgeforums site? A member here (forgot his name edit: Oliver perhaps) was running it, and I think rossman helped him with it. It was very popular back in the SC420 pcie slot modding days.
Did Dell give them a seice and desist?

Yes. People are still active on that forum but not like the 400SC days. I think RossMAN still owns the site after Oliver transferred it to him but others run it.


OT: Anyone know what the scoop is on RossMAN's disappearance from here? I heard some chatter but don't know what happened. You can PM me if you know to keep it out of this HD discussion.
Last Visited On: 3/20/2008 9:36:19 AM

wow, awesome, you're grand nagus too

last i heard he hit 70k posts, and decided to "retire" from AT forums :beer:

what's a Grand Nagus?

 

[timswim78]

Anyone have any experience running this with VMWARE ESXI? Would it worth it to spend $100 to get the XEON?

 

[Ferzerp]

Unless you upgraded the specs quite a bit, you wouldn't want to run VMs on it. It only comes with 512Mb of ram for instance...

 

[Johnniewalker]

Originally posted by: timswim78
Anyone have any experience running this with VMWARE ESXI? Would it worth it to spend $100 to get the XEON?

Well, the Xeon upgrade gets you Intel Virtualization Technology, which the e2180 doesn't have...but it's a 50% bump in price ($100), not sure you'll get 50% better performance. Also I think max ram on that is 4gigs.

 

[The0ne]

Originally posted by: Denithor
And it's definitely worth an extra $19 to increase from 512MB -> 2GB DDR2. This looks like a pretty nice setup, too bad I have to pay shipping & tax...

EDIT: Ouch. Shipping is $69 and tax adds nearly $20 so with the memory upgrade I'd be looking at >$300. Suddenly not such a great deal.

Or change your shipping selection to 3-5 days for $19.99? At least my co-worker and I was able to

 

[Nemmeh]

The PCI-e slot only runs a x1, do some google searches. People have already cut out the slot for it to accept a larger vid card however the slot won't actually run at x16.

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: timswim78
Anyone have any experience running this with VMWARE ESXI? Would it worth it to spend $100 to get the XEON?

ESX wont install on a SATA drive as far as I know, other than that add more ram and I would think you could.