Hardware boxers - any interest?

[Awbee]

I am cleaning out some old inventoryfrom my store room and have 10 Dell SX260/270 Ultra Small Form Factor Desktop computers. These units are roughly 9 3/4" x 9 1/2" x 3 1/2", have built in intel video(dvi), 10/100 nic, sound, 6 usb(4 back, 2 front), and ps2 kb/mouse. The processors are 2.4ghz-2.6ghz p4, 512mb ram and can be upgraded to 2gb, and have 20-40gb 2.5" hard drives. Some have cd burners and some have dvd player/cd burners. The motherboards have all been replaced for the capacitor issue. They all have Windows XP Pro license (oem sticker on side of case) and would ship with the Dell restoration XP cd.

I am would be asking $50.00 a unit. This would be for the unit itself with the power supply brick. No mouse,keyboard, monitor,speakers etc.

[zanthor]

Have you tried running wow on one? The only thing I'd doubt is the video card... Would be curious to see how it ran @ 1280x1024 with minimal settings.

[Awbee]

I'll try and load one up in the next few days and see the kind of performance in shatt/IF/ogr. I was affect by the Gustav and still awaiting power at home so I'll bring one by work and load it.

The real drawback is that there are no expansion slots for another video card or other device, the unit is all in one. the advantage would be that is a very compact unit. they originally shipped with wall/desk mounting brackets. I could try and see if I have them packed away somewhere.

[NashTitan]

I would very much be interested in a couple of those units. Let me know when you get it up and running. Even if it wont play wow I could use for other means.

[Awbee]

I got a few minutes to load a copy of wow and was not excited by the results for moving around in shat. The system only has 512mb and I do not have the memory type on hand to upgrade at this moment to test further. I am ordering some, but I will be out in vegas for a conference next week and will not be able to report my findings until then. So I can provide a quality product, even on the cheap side, I would prefer to have fully tested with additional memory before I will sell them for the purpose of multi-boxing.

Here are some pictures of the units:




Microprocessor

Microprocessor type
Intel® Pentium® 4 and Celeron® microprocessors. Design provides for future processor upgrades. Supported processor upgrades are available from Dell.

Level 1 (L1) cache
8 KB

Level 2 (L2) cache
128-KB or 512-KB (depending on your computer configuration) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM

Memory

Architecture
333- and 400-MHz DDR SDRAM

Dual in-line memory module (DIMM) sockets
two (non-ECC only)

DIMM capacities
128, 256, 512 MB, and 1 GB

Minimum RAM
128 MB

Maximum RAM
2 GB

BIOS address
F0000h

Computer Information

Computer chip set
Intel 865G

Data bus width
64 bits

Address bus width
32 bits

Interrupts
23

Computer BIOS
4-Mb flash chip

System bus speed
800-, 533-, or 400-MHz quad-data rate; 200-, 133-, or 100-MHz clock (matches external bus speed)

Network interface controller
Gigabit integrated network interface with ASF 1.0 support as defined by DMTF

Capable of 10/100/1000 communication

Audio

Audio type
AC97, Sound Blaster emulation; optional internal speaker

Audio controller
Integrated AC97 Codec

Stereo conversion
16-bit analog-to-digital; 20-bit digital-to-analog

Interfaces:

Internal
PCI bus/AC97

External
stereo line-in minijack and line-out minijack on the rear I/O panel; headphone and microphone connectors on the front panel

Video
865G embedded graphics

Expansion Bus

Bus type
USB 2.0

Memory module connector size
DDR — 184 pins

Drives

Externally accessible bay
one bay for Dell C-module portable devices

Internally accessible bay
one bay for a parallel ATA100 2.5-inch hard drive

Ports

Externally accessible:

Serial (data terminal equipment [DTE])
one 9-pin connector; 16550-compatible on the back I/O panel

Parallel
one 25-hole connector (bidirectional) on the back I/O panel

Video
DVI-I connector on the back I/O panel

Integrated network adapter
RJ45 connector on the back I/O panel; 10/100/1000

PS/2-style keyboard
6-pin mini-DIN on the back I/O panel

PS/2-compatible mouse
6-pin mini-DIN on the back I/O panel

USB
four USB 2.0-compliant connectors on the back I/O panel; two on the front panel

Internally accessible:

Primary IDE hard drive
44-pin connector

Fans
two 4-pin connectors

Key Combinations

<Ctrl><Alt><Del>
restarts (reboots) the computer

<Ctrl><Alt><\>
toggles microprocessor speeds on 101-key keyboard (in MS-DOS® real mode only)

<Ctrl><Alt><#>
toggles microprocessor speeds on 102-key keyboard (in MS-DOS real mode only)

<F2> or <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>
starts embedded system setup (during start-up only)

<F3>
automatically starts the computer from the network environment specified by the remote boot environment (PXE) rather than from one of the devices in the system setup Boot Sequence option (during start-up only)

<F12> or <Ctrl><Alt><F8>
displays a boot device menu that allows the user to enter a device for a single boot (during start-up only) as well as options to run hard-drive and system diagnostics

<Ctrl><Alt><F10>
launches the utility partition (if installed) during computer start-up

Controls and Lights

Power control
push button

Power lights
green light on power button—blinking green in sleep state; solid green for power-on state

amber light—blinking amber indicates a problem with an installed device; solid amber indicates an internal power problem (see "Power Problems")

Hard-drive access light
green light

Link integrity light (on integrated network adapter)
green light for 10-Mb operation; orange light for 100-Mb operation; yellow light for a 1000-Mb (1-Gb) operation

Activity light (on integrated network adapter)
yellow blinking light

Diagnostic lights
four yellow and/or green lights on back panel

Standby power light
12V_PWR on the system board

Power

External DC power adapter:

Wattage
150 W

Heat dissipation
455 BTU/hr (average)

Voltage
90 to 135 V at 60 Hz; 180 to 265 V at 50 Hz

Backup battery
3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell

Physical

Vertical orientation width, depth, and height (without stand or cable cover)
3.4 inches (8.5 cm), 9.7 inches (24.2 cm), 9.9 inches (24.7 cm)

Vertical orientation width, depth, and height (with stand)
3.4 inches (8.5 cm), 9.7 inches (24.2 cm), 10.9 inches (27.2 cm)

Vertical orientation width, depth, and height (with stand and cable cover)
3.4 inches (8.5 cm), 12.1 inches (30.2 cm), 10.9 inches (27.2 cm)

Horizontal orientation width, depth, and height (without stand or cable cover)
9.9 inches (24.7 cm), 9.7 inches (24.2 cm), 3.4 inches (8.5 cm)

Weight (without stand or cable cover)
7.2 lbs (3.3 kg)

Weight (with stand and cable cover)
8 lbs (3.6 kg)

Environmental

Temperature:

Operating
10° to 30°C (50° to 86°F)

Storage
–40° to 65°C (–40° to 149°F)

Relative humidity
20% to 80% (noncondensing)

Maximum vibration:

Operating
desktop or vertical hanging orientation: 0.25 gravities (G) at 3 to 200 Hz at 0.5 octave/min;
horizontal orientation: 0.25 G at 20 to 200 Hz at 0.5 octave/min

Storage
0.5 G at 3 to 200 Hz at 1 octave/min

Maximum shock:

Operating
bottom half-sine pulse with a change in velocity of 20 inches/sec (50.8 cm/sec)

Storage
27-G faired square wave with a velocity change of 200 inches/sec (508 cm/sec)

Altitude:

Operating
–16 to 3048 m (–50 to 10,000 ft)

Storage
–16 to 10,600 m (–50 to 35,000 ft)

[Arneas]

I'd be interested in at least one, if not two. How much do they weigh?

[sicsid]

Weight (without stand or cable cover)
7.2 lbs (3.3 kg)

In the specs.

[Hor]

Hmm, yeah depending on shipping I'd be interested in several myself. That's a nice price.

[Awbee]

Sorry for not following up much (been in vegas and there are better things to do than check email and forums ) Sitting in the vegas airport right now. As soon as I get back to work monday I should have the new memory in to test to see how things run.

[glo]

With 2 gig of ram and video settings on minimum these will run 1 copy of wow just fine, fine for followers but I wouldn't use it for your main.