Just upgraded a hard drive on a Dell and liked the computer

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 10:41 pm

I'd never had anything to do with Dell other than seeing the odd one and buying a refurbished Dell Sony trinitron 21" monitor and keyboard until I did this hard drive upgrade.

It belongs to a friend of my daughter, whos had it a year and going off to college now.

I'm very impressed with the engineering, fit and design that went into this box. Its a very small Dimension L733T with a 733 cpu in it, celeron I guess?

Room for another ram stick and another 5.25 and 3.5 drive but only one molex! I swapped out the old 10gb Quantum LM for a 60gb IBM and ghosted the hard drive across.

The manual as well is very thorough and it runs quiet. It has one free pci slot for a video card I guess as its an 810 chipset.

All my other computers have been homebuilts.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 7:31 am

I love the way Dell cases are designed.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 4:13 pm

The quality and engineering is very impressive. Of course, a real man like me only looked at the manual afterwards!!

The hd mounts vertically on the front of the case and the IBM install went very smoothly.

She only had 64mb of ram with winME so I put in a spare 128mb for her to try out.

It still reports only 30mb free!!

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 9:50 am

Dells have always been pretty decent systems considering they are mass produced. The cases are pretty easy to remove the one side, but removing the other panels can be a real pain in the butt until you figure out exactly how they are put together. My wife and I both had Dell boxes before we got married and they are both running solid as Linux servers now.

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 6:42 pm

I'm very impressed with the engineering, fit and design that went into this box.

Dells typically use Flextronics (formerly Palo Alto) cases. The Dimension Ls are PA-450s, and the older Dimension mid-towers were the ATCX.

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 4:27 pm

I swapped out the old 10gb Quantum LM for a 60gb IBM

You probably just ruined her life by putting that IBM drive in it.

I picture this senario... When she needs it the most, just before her final papers are due it's gonna die and she isn't going to have a backup.