Price is now down to $609, but no free upgrade to Vista Premium.

I'm going to take my chances, and pull the trigger.

In for one, thinking about two.

Figuring that BOINC will keep all four cores at 100%.

Maybe the Dell poster was having problems with a specific piece of software.

Gotta do something to save my Rosetta RAC !!!

EDIT ---> Just one for now, $661.54 total (damn sales tax!!!). I wonder if Who? would be proud of me, as he likens me to an AMD fanboi...

Just saw this on SlickDeals.net, fwiw:

For the people who have gotten their 9200 quad already; can you comment on its performance. There is this guy in the dell forums who is claiming that the Dell quad is running 30% slower than a non DELL quad core..

Atrocious Computing Performance of Core Quad Q6600 in XPS 410/Dimension 9200

I can't give you any numbers yet; perhaps in a week or so when results are being validated on a more consistent basis.

Also, your link is to the dell forums page login. Can you point it to the article?

You know, I was just thinking this morning that since I crunch for five different projects at present, though Rosy gets the biggest share, do you want me to hit the 'no new tasks' button on the other projects for a week or so, or would this help?

Price is now down to $609, but no free upgrade to Vista Premium.

I'm going to take my chances, and pull the trigger.

In for one, thinking about two.

Figuring that BOINC will keep all four cores at 100%.

Maybe the Dell poster was having problems with a specific piece of software.

Gotta do something to save my Rosetta RAC !!!

If I had to do it again, I would get a couple of aftermarket 1 gig ram sticks. I went with dell's 4 gigs of ram and paid for it. Still happy I pulled the trigger though.

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Are there 4 memory slots? I went with the "free upgrade" to 2 GB, which I "assume" is two 1 GB sticks, with room for two more sticks of my own, yes?

And I can "dream" about getting the G0 stepping, not for oc'ing, but keeping the electric bill somewhat reasonable...

If I had to do it again, I would get a couple of aftermarket 1 gig ram sticks. I went with dell's 4 gigs of ram and paid for it. Still happy I pulled the trigger though.

Are there 4 memory slots? I went with the "free upgrade" to 2 GB, which I "assume" is two 1 GB sticks, with room for two more sticks of my own, yes?

And I can "dream" about getting the G0 stepping, not for oc'ing, but keeping the electric bill somewhat reasonable...

Yyyyup. My ram is listed thus:

311-5122 1 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs. So unless they give you two-gig sticks you are right. HTH. :)

Not sure about the GO stepping though.

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http://www.xpsupgradeprogramdell.com/Pages/Default.aspx

Dell XPS™ Motherboard Exchange Program

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thanx for the confirmation.

anyway, back to the point of concern, the dell version of the q6600 throttling down due to dell's power-saving options.

gerry, when you're boinc'ing, do you show all four cores at 100% i.e. 2.4GHz, or are they throttled down to less than 2.0 GHz?

EDIT ---> Oooops, nevermid. This was just posted on SlickDeals:

"Also, for those not following the FW thread, the person who originally noted a possibility that the Quad core in the 9200 was underperforming compared to other Quad core machines discovered an error in his methodology (using two different versions of a program), and it appears that the performance of the Dell 9200 C2Q is on par with other C2Q machines."

Are there 4 memory slots? I went with the "free upgrade" to 2 GB, which I "assume" is two 1 GB sticks, with room for two more sticks of my own, yes?

And I can "dream" about getting the G0 stepping, not for oc'ing, but keeping the electric bill somewhat reasonable...

Yyyyup. My ram is listed thus:

311-5122 1 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs. So unless they give you two-gig sticks you are right. HTH. :)

Not sure about the GO stepping though.