Intel Pentium 4 HT or D?

[apesoccer]

Well, i guess i've just had good luck with them then. Or i've refused to see the bad area's heh...I had so much trouble with Gateway with a couple of lines of their computers, that everything seemed great comparitively. But, i still have 5 labs that have run pretty much flawlessly (except for the lcd thing [which was next-day replaced in 3 instances] and a problem with my ghost load with one lab, where a faulty driver was causing bluescreen's in xp after being on for about 2 days...and let me tell you how irritating that was figuring out).

F@H:
AMD: [64 3000+][2500+][2400+][2000+][1.3][366]
Intel: [X 3.0x3][P4 3.0x2][P4 2.4x5 down][P4 1.4]

"...and i'm not gay" RX8 -Greatest Quote of ALL Time

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Well, i guess i've just had good luck with them then. Or i've refused to see the bad area's heh.

It sounds like either you've had a lot of good luck with Hell, or I've had a lot of bad luck. In just the last batch of Hellspawn I've seen a hard drive die, a bad memory stick, a goofy ethernet that's super slow (but still <i>eventually</i> works) a bad power supply, and a power supply so close to the edge that just plugging in a USB ZIP drive sends it screaming. Oh, and then there's my box which has unscheduled occasional really weird problems that I can't seem to nail down no matter what I reinstall, test for, or replace. (One day it had just turned itself off. Another day the video suddenly went to CGA with WinXP complaining about the driver failing. Another day it just refused to bring any window into the foreground until I rebooted. Etc.) Of course this is better than my last personal Hellspawn which one day just crashed and refused to boot anymore, but reinstalling Win2K <i>almost</i> fixed it, except that from then on it refused to connect to my company's primary domain server. (Luckily we still had an old server we were moving from that I could connect with.) Oh, and it generally it only saw about 1/2 to 1/4 of the other PCs on my network, but seemed to choose which ones to see and which not to at random.

But hey, that just may be Hell's business line. Things used to be the same with mass orders when I was in the Air Force. Different OEM, same problems. I'm used to dealing with it. But being at work always makes me miss my home PC.

<font color=red> یί∫υєг ρђœŋίχ
<i>The devil is in the details.</i></font color=red>
@ 192K -> 200,000 miles or bust!

 

[Zoron]

I love Dell. I make tons of money repairing all the bad units...



<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>

 

[apesoccer]

Yow. That sucks. I expect a few things to go wrong with a big order...maybe one or two computers per 30 or so will either come with a broken monitor or something wrong in the computer. But lately i've done pretty well. I haven't considered hd's as a problem, since it has physical parts moving, and those wear out, some sooner then others. I've probably replaced 3-5 of those over the last year. Not a single ram chip (but i've added ram to two labs).

My Labs:
-24 p4 3ghz (3 bad lcd's...i'm wondering if it isn't bad power to the room though...i've had to change out a couple of surge protectors as well; had a similar problem with the Gateway computers at my last job, where the power supplies went out in all 18 computers [over a year's time]at one of our plants [yes we had power strips...we ended up using battery's at every desk...what a joke]).
-24 p4 3ghz
-24 p4 2.4ghz
-18 p3 1ghz
-24 p3 866 (or was it 833...866 i think...I've had trouble with these...but we have hotswappable hd's in these, and the problems are always the hd's)
-about 20 single machines for faculty and staff
-12 p4 1.4ghz cad lab

F@H:
AMD: [64 3000+][2500+][2400+][2000+][1.3][366]
Intel: [X 3.0x3][P4 3.0x2][P4 2.4x5 down][P4 1.4]

"...and i'm not gay" RX8 -Greatest Quote of ALL Time

 

[slvr_phoenix]

<A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/11/dell_customer_support" target="_new">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/11/dell_customer_support</A>

<font color=red> یί∫υєг ρђœŋίχ
<i>The devil is in the details.</i></font color=red>
@ 192K -> 200,000 miles or bust!

 

[endyen]

Do you have many local mom and pop shops? You can usually get a decent system that way, and have better support if something goes wrong. Just make sure you check for rep.
The big advantage that way, you get a lot more say as to what goes in.