OT: DELL SUCKS! Re: PC Gamer, best 50 classic games issue?

From: jpero_at_sympatico.ca <(jpero_at_sympatico.ca)>
Date: Thu Jan 10 14:22:18 2002

> Proprietary everything, you mean. I just stripped a client's
> Dimension P266 today, put the disks & NICs in a new chassis. I had
> forgoten. In a P-II 266, there was:
> No AGP - PCI only, although AGP was common & proven then.
Note this one, I'll reply below.
> 70ns parity 72-pin DRAM SIMMs. Twice the price of even the ECC 168-pin
> SDRAM that was current. And half the speed.
> The DMA bus was, get this, EISA.

Remember: Dell like rare few others are Intel-ONLY boxens.
This one you described is no AGP, slowww EDO and EISA means
this is 4 chip KX set plus pair of intel chipsets for EISA, plus
buggy IDE controller from thirdparty IDE controller. When I heard
about that bug, I dropped that idea of gathering up that kind like
hot patato.

Basically standard stuff but very early stuff. LX chipset was first
chipset to go AGP, busmastering IDE controller. LX and BX took
southbridge set from TX for UDMA 33. Much stable and good
performance afterwards.

> The ever-popular 56K USR Sportster WinModem.
Still is w/ some big-name makers.

> The fabled Dell non-standard PSU, which *looks* standard
> The fabled Dell non-standard case - which looks like an ATX board
> should drop right in - NOT!

Correct.

> upgrades only from Dell, they frequently used parts & sub-systems slower
> than the current technology.

Proven stuff and software support because businesses who prefers
reliablity will buy them.

> And we should not fail to mention the equally notorious Dell-badged
> 3Com PCMCIA Combo cards, that were 3Com seconds and fiddled so that only
> Dell drivers worked. You could buy them here for a while for $10 the
> handful.

Not second-fiddle, they were modified with different firmware. Major
name makers can't have second fiddle parts, silicon only works 100%
or nothing (magic smoke gone). Dell doesn't want none of seconds
that almost works (bad smoke-filled). :-)

Compaq is infamous with Seagates drives that has compaq's firmware
that were slowed down to meet compaq's specs.

> Bah!

Asolutely right. :-)

> Doc

Cheers,

Wizard
Received on Thu Jan 10 2002 - 14:22:18 GMT