Are these Dells any good?

[bigbeark]

I was at my computer recycling place today, saw the following Dells: Optiplex 745 C2D, also 5200 and 6200 models. Also GX260.

What Dell models are good as in very good?

The C2D (Core 2 Duo) models were $200, which sounds steep to me.

[smason]

Re: Are these Dells any good?

I love the 745s, had a bunch of them at work, most of them are retired, but my main test system is still a 745, and I have 2 running as VMWare ESXi servers. Solid units.

260s are ok as well, have a few as Linux servers.

[smason]

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$200 is a bit steep, though I'd say you get $200 worth of computer, but they do usually go for less. Also, considering it's a recycler, they likely paid nothing, or even got paid to take them a
way...

[dood]

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The 745's are pretty nice. Are they SFF, desktop, minitower? I usually buy from TigerDirect, but their QC has gone down the crapper lately.

[inuyasha.rules]

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C2d is a current processor so that price is ok but more than id pay in my market. The amount of ram and video card type would be the deciding factor. More than 2gbid of ram and a nvidia 7 series or higher cpu and id go for it

[c_hegge]

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The C2D (Core 2 Duo) models were $200, which sounds steep to me.

That's very cheap. For that price, I'd expect to be gettimg maybe a P4 2.4 nothwood with 1GB RAM and 40GB HDD. For a C2D I'd expect around $350-400.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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I think you're talking australian dollars while he's talking canadian (or maybe US) dollars. $200 is alright for a C2D box, but only if it's got some half-decent graphics card in it.

[c_hegge]

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Remember that ATM, the aussie dollar is actually worth more than the US dollar and the canadian dollar, so it would actually be more. At work, we currently have a C2D with onboard graphics for sale at $390AUD ($403CA or $414US) and people think it's really cheap. The only reason we still have it is because it has windows vistrash.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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Hmm, i'm not uptodate it seems. I knew the US$ had collapsed but not THIS bad.

[Wizard]

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No no.. Core 2 line is out of production now. All you get is on used market and supply of new Pentium Dual core, C2D and C2Q are drying up right now. Yet I'm frustrated at crazy prices of some 775 processors I mentioned on ebay. Come on!!

i7 came first just 3 years ago, i3 and i5 came out last year.

PS: 745 is severely limited on CPU choices, 65nm only that means E6700 2.66GHz C2D is max.
This was reason I went to 780 mainboard once I saw best deal on ebay for that and bought it. 755, 760 and 780 are good picks mainboards. Just watch out not all have right boards and i/o ports on back.
This is very odd that Dell made each mainboard specific to case type alone therefore violating the BTX context of exchangeable between desktop and towers.

Cheers, Wizard

[bigbeark]

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The 745's are pretty nice. Are they SFF, desktop, minitower? I usually buy from TigerDirect, but their QC has gone down the crapper lately.

These are SFF. Normally I don't like this format, but I figure C2D is cool-running. Does SFF restrict you to onboard video?

[dood]

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These are SFF. Normally I don't like this format, but I figure C2D is cool-running. Does SFF restrict you to onboard video?

Really depends on the box. On a GX520 that I have, the pinout is there for a PCIe card, but they didn't put the slot itself on the board. Not sure with the others....