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Dell motherboards?

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altec

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I have a some Questions about dell motherboards.

1. Are they any good? Like are they made with good parts and do they last?
2. Are they ATX?
3. Are they good overclocking boards? I would think not but ya never know.
 
1. They're good enough. They're not uber-awesome high end equipment, but they don't randomly die every second either. They're basic. Imagine the most generic looking mobo on the planet--there you go, a dell mobo. They seem to do pretty well, for their purpose. I mean, of course they're built good enough to last because otherwise they'd spend tons of money and time replacing the ones that die.

2. Kind of. Dell gets kinda fuzzy in that area. For a while, dell re-wired the psu connections so that you couldn't use a standard atx psu with the boards. But I do believe they stopped doing that. They also use custom setups for the back panel connectors, which would probably stop it from mounting in an atx case.

3. Hell no. Do you think dell would let you overclock their machines? What incentive would customers have to buy a faster processor? Dell mobos (just like any OEM mobo) don't offer any tweaking options at all. No overclocking, no memory timings, nothing. Just the normal date/boot sequence/random other crap options.
 
altec said:
I have a some Questions about dell motherboards.

1. Are they any good? Like are they made with good parts and do they last?
2. Are they ATX?
3. Are they good overclocking boards? I would think not but ya never know.
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1. Good enough to work 100% stable which is good for dell.
2. The boards are mATX design. The design isnt proprietery. you can fit the board in a Aspire qpack.
3.They are made by intel so there are no overclocking options.
 
And to help more on number two. I JUST replaced a PSU in a year old Dell box with a run of the mill PSU. Works fine.


And also. If you are planning on swapping in a Dell mobo in a non Dell Case, you will have to hunt and figure out the Power/Reset/LED pins on it as they usually aren't labeled. Can be done, just have to test it.
 
swatX said:
1. Good enough to work 100% stable which is good for dell.
2. The boards are mATX design. The design isnt proprietery. you can fit the board in a Aspire qpack.
3.They are made by intel so there are no overclocking options.
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#2 - they aren't ALL mATX. The cheap/small systems are, but the full-size full-power boxes are ATX in size. And yeah, I'm pretty sure the PSU thing was a pretty short span of time when they did that.
 
swatX said:
3.They are made by intel so there are no overclocking options.
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Do u really think Intel boards don't have oc options?

THE REASON most oc options are "greyed out" in the bios is it represents LESS problems for their technical support staff.

Their tech support has slipped in recent years due to "outsourcing".
 
oh come on...the "overclocking options" on intel boards barely even deserve the title. A 10% max with no memory timings tweaks and no cpu voltage options doesn't really count. And that's only been on the recent (865 and newer) boards.
 
ZigZagZeppelin said:
Do u really think Intel boards don't have oc options? Thats being naive or an amd fan boy.

THE REASON most oc options are "greyed out" in the bios is it represents LESS problems for their technical support staff.

Their tech support has slipped in recent years due to "outsourcing".

If you can't answer his questions factually why bother typing?
:p
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show me an intel board that has Overclocking options in the bios!. even if they do its very minimal . i am not acting like a AMD !!!!!!, i am being realistic. Dell motherboards are made by intel and dell bios dont have any OC options whatsoever, so do the motherboards that are made by intel.

The Dell dimension 2300 and 4600 , 4700 series does consist of mATX motherboards. i am not sure about other series.
 
Sweet, thanks guys. Didn't think i was going to get any replys. :D
 
show me an intel board that has Overclocking options in the bios!. even if they do its very minimal . i am not acting like a AMD !!!!!!, i am being realistic. Dell motherboards are made by intel and dell bios dont have any OC options whatsoever, so do the motherboards that are made by intel.
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Gee ever heard of the Asus P4C800E-Deluxe?????? :confused: (just being a smartass) :D
 
Rtstrider said:
Gee ever heard of the Asus P4C800E-Deluxe?????? :confused: (just being a smartass) :D
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i am talking about motherboards that are made by intel , advertised as INTEL motherboards like the one that shows as a product at intel.com --> products-- > motherboards
 
Hence being the smartass, lol...But yeah it's just like saying an amd mb (although I don't believe amd makes their own boards) doesn't overclock...The p4c800e deluxe is made for an intel proc hence it being an intel board...I knew what you meant and as stated for the third time in all caps...I'M JUST BEING A SMARTASS, LOL
 
I know very little about OCing, so please don't flame me in case this article is somehow bogus, but check this

It doesn't go into detail, just says it can be done on this model.
 
kilgore777 said:
I know very little about OCing, so please don't flame me in case this article is somehow bogus, but check this

It doesn't go into detail, just says it can be done on this model.
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software is called clockgen and this can only be done on some intel boards.
 
not to hijack the thread but ...

"SYSmark2004 is also pro dual-core, but we couldn’t get the benchmark to install on the XPS."

oh ok? telling me that a system cant install any piece of software would steer me completely in a different direction. also there is no price listed with that machine, it has to be upwards of 3000 probably more around the 4000 mark.
 
Maximum PC said in that review:
We know, for example, that the XPS will spank the fastest Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 in DVD Shrink

Awesome, thats why I bought this $5,000 PC, to rip my DVD's 5 seconds faster. Forget the fact the AMD 64 spanks the balls off the system in everything else.

Then at the bottom of the review, the con: It needs SLI to compete with AMD systems.

It also needs a CPU thats faster also, but I won't rain on the parade he's having in his pants
 
I have heard that they were referbished AZUS borads.. Or that might of been HP.
 
stiltner said:
Maximum PC said in that review:
We know, for example, that the XPS will spank the fastest Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 in DVD Shrink

Awesome, thats why I bought this $5,000 PC, to rip my DVD's 5 seconds faster. Forget the fact the AMD 64 spanks the balls off the system in everything else.

Then at the bottom of the review, the con: It needs SLI to compete with AMD systems.

It also needs a CPU thats faster also, but I won't rain on the parade he's having in his pants
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X2's do DVD shrink faster than any Intel chip. The P4 EE might do a pretty good job with its 4 virtual cores, but I know that 2x275 Opterons load 3 CPUs at max and like 65% of the 4th core during DVD shrink.
 
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