Thread: Dell SC1430

IMO you are better off with the standard desktops such as C521/E520.

Check the prices for Home users and then Small Business as often there are big savings between the two despite the same spec. It's not often that SB is cheaper either - sometimes it's the other way.

You have to check daily with Dell because their prices can change daily. I think it's to do with their stock levels. If they didn't shift X boxes of Y system last week then this week they offer free shipping and double ram etc.

Forget long term / onsite warranty. To keep costs down just take a gamble and go for the 90 day warranty.

If it's DOA it goes back, if it works straight away you should be fine. Any future problems would be cheap and easy to repair yourself.

Note that even though dell give you 90 days warranty you still have the manufacturers 1/3 year warranty for the CPU, memory, disk etc. Although I don't know how that would work with a prebuilt PC.

BTW, as the 1430 is a server tower what are the fans like? The C521 is whisper quiet, but at a guess the 1430 will have extra / larger / louder fans?

Try this:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...ck=tickerpromo

A really cheap model / reasonable specs is this one:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...rsdimen_e521_3

Try sourcing the parts yourself and getting the total to less than £339. It can't be done!

Anyone know what happened to my two threads?

I spent 10 minutes researching for it.

:-(

But they were there, this morning, as soon as I clicked 'Post Reply'.

I can only assume a mod thought I was posting a dell affiliate link.

I was not. I had just visited the dell home page and drilled down like with the adamsmith post.

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Originally Posted by Jon-NC

That was a concern of mine. Although various reviews have stated that it isn't as noisey as most servers. I'm sure it is louder than the average pc though.

Don't forget server rooms are not designed as work areas so noise isn't an issue. Personally I wouldn't want to work next to a server all day!