Giovanni Azua said:
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your will to help
It is a new Precision 670:
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Dual Xeon 3.2GHz/800Mhz/1MB
2GB RAM DDR2 400 ECC Dual Channel
Intel E7525 chipset EM64T
128MB PCI-E ATI FIREGL V3100 (ELGA)
80GB SATA HDD 7200rpm
36GB SCSI HDD 10K rpm
16X DVD +/- RW + Soft
16X DVD ROM
Win XP Pro SP2
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Is it also usual that DELL packs whatever kind
of disparate of different (cheap) component vendors
into their bundles? I am extremelly upset with this
Hyundai thing inside my Workstation ...
TIA,
Best Regards,
Giovanni
Well yes vendors are known for using generic parts. They buy in bulk to
keep costs down. The main thing I see here keeping your system down is the
video card. Here is an excerpt from ATI's website "Outstanding entry-level
workstation performance and quality utilizing 4 pixel pipelines and 2
geometry engines "
Notice the part about 4 pipelines? A pipeline shuttles data back and forth
on the video card, the more you have, the more data you can move! 4
Pipelines in all actuality isn't much. My Ati X800Xt has 16 Pipelines. The
video card in there is not designed for gaming, but rather for utilizing
workstation and data-entry level positions. If you want to play high end
games with all eye candy and good frames per second, or even to get a better
score with your benchmarking software I would recommend that you change out
the video. The stats on the rest of the machine are impressive enough that
you should see a rather significant increase just by video. Also, to note,
you didn't specify your OS. If you are running a linux based OS then you
will probably want a Nvidia based card as their linux based driver set is
HUGELY better than ATI's. Hope this helps.
-Chris
P.S.: If you DO change video cards, check your power supply to make sure
that it will handle a new power-hungry video card.
