i am ready to purchase one system from dell refurbished workstations.
from what i saw under $500, i can pick up a precision 490 or 690 witch both based on the intel x5000 series chipset with socket 771, or the 775 dual proc equivalent. my concern is for the 690 witch has 2 editions, the 750 and 1kw chasis. the 750 has all 7 expansion slots in a reverse , or opposite atx layout, not btx which is a major turnoff and i would not be typing right now, some day a may upgrade to the duall lga1366 nehalem or whichever is newest chips, but its not necessary now on my budget, the only other pc i could find was an hp xw8200 with socket 604, xeon , p4 equivalent but the ddr2 ram ran at 400mhz another turnoff. anways the 690 1 kw had 7 slots reverse atx but the last 4 were offset, i later found out after research that it was a gpu card riser which split i pci express x16 onto 2, correct me but wouldnt that just hog the bandwidth and why not naitive dual pci express on the mobo, and ways, would i run into problems with the 690 1kw upgrading in the furture with the offset slots and the cards not fitting, also i noticed the back panel for the expansion cards were screwed on so in theory couldnt i just order a 690 750watt back plate replacment and screw it on when its time to upgrade? and the 490 only has 6 expansion slots in reverse atx , what do you thing i should get, the 690 or 490 and the 1kw or 750, also if neither are recommended what about the previously mentioned hp xw8200 one i found with dual 3.8 xeons, i would be doing major video editing and some gaming, wow, half life, oblivion. oh and btw with the 490 and 690 both support dual cpus, so to increase its life i may upgrade to dual quads, and problems that may occur? and one last thing with video cards, i believe strongly in one single (or dual like 4870 x2) high end gpu over sli or crossfire, with all the glitches and everything, i prefer a gtx280 or 5870. but i may experiment sometime in the machine.
from what i saw under $500, i can pick up a precision 490 or 690 witch both based on the intel x5000 series chipset with socket 771, or the 775 dual proc equivalent. my concern is for the 690 witch has 2 editions, the 750 and 1kw chasis. the 750 has all 7 expansion slots in a reverse , or opposite atx layout, not btx which is a major turnoff and i would not be typing right now, some day a may upgrade to the duall lga1366 nehalem or whichever is newest chips, but its not necessary now on my budget, the only other pc i could find was an hp xw8200 with socket 604, xeon , p4 equivalent but the ddr2 ram ran at 400mhz another turnoff. anways the 690 1 kw had 7 slots reverse atx but the last 4 were offset, i later found out after research that it was a gpu card riser which split i pci express x16 onto 2, correct me but wouldnt that just hog the bandwidth and why not naitive dual pci express on the mobo, and ways, would i run into problems with the 690 1kw upgrading in the furture with the offset slots and the cards not fitting, also i noticed the back panel for the expansion cards were screwed on so in theory couldnt i just order a 690 750watt back plate replacment and screw it on when its time to upgrade? and the 490 only has 6 expansion slots in reverse atx , what do you thing i should get, the 690 or 490 and the 1kw or 750, also if neither are recommended what about the previously mentioned hp xw8200 one i found with dual 3.8 xeons, i would be doing major video editing and some gaming, wow, half life, oblivion. oh and btw with the 490 and 690 both support dual cpus, so to increase its life i may upgrade to dual quads, and problems that may occur? and one last thing with video cards, i believe strongly in one single (or dual like 4870 x2) high end gpu over sli or crossfire, with all the glitches and everything, i prefer a gtx280 or 5870. but i may experiment sometime in the machine.
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