Cheapest X38 mobo on Newegg is $199. Then a copy of XP Pro for $99... and the rest of the machine for $121? Don't see how anyone in the market could pass up this deal.
Gnome, Excellent idea! Basically, you can purchase the bare bones T3400 with the 525 watt Power supply and an additional nVidia NVS-290 PCIe-16x card for $550.00 and that includes Windows XP Pro and a 3-year warranty! Then, you can purchase 2 x 1GB of PC-6400 800 MHz RAM from the Dell accessory site for $90.00 This is far cheaper than upgrading via the build option on the T3400 site. Then, go to New Egg and purchase the new Intel Wolfdale E8400 3.0 GHz Dual-Core processor with the 6MB L2 cache for $260.00 This will be far cheaper than paying upwards of $509 at Dell for the E6850 at 3.0 GHz but only with 4 MB of L2 cache. 550 + 90 + 260 = $900 + tax
That's ALSO not true... sheesh! You're apparently getting bum info all around... must be talking to a Dell rep...
I guess I am dreaming and this monitor running off the pci card is a mirage. You just don't know how to do it. Dinoman does. John
"What we have here is a failure to communicate"... Yes, PCI works just fine so long as the video cards are compatible and the mobo/chipset cooperates. Oh, I know how to do it plenty good. I've had multi-card rigs for 10 years.