Its ostensibly counter-intuitive that the obsolete, lower performance memory costs more than the current, but that is reflective of the original cost. In these listings for DDR2 is the cheapest at 230.00 and while the cheapest 16 GB of DDR3 is only 88.īack to DDR2, the most expensive 16GB of T5400 RAM - costs 528, the highest price for DDR2. However the Dell T5400 uses DDR2-6400 RAM- (BTW, the same RAM as Dell Poweredge 29XX servers) and DDR2 RAM is substantially more expensive. You have a great deal, no way you could build out a machine with those specs for that price. Use it for games, video and audio encoding, computer labs (I have 3 hdd in unit wone for virtual machines, audio, and video files).
I also have emu 1820 pro sound card wbreakout box and a 6 port nic card installed. On my main unit I have vmware workstation. Have vmware vsphere 5.0 running on the second unit wwindows 2008 lab setup wout any problems. Maxes out at 32 gb ram ECC (although th 4gb module are expensive - have 24gb)I have not been able to throw anything at it that it cannot handle. Running wa gtx 460 and I play Call of Duty, Shogun 2 total war, Crysis3 wout any problem. I liked it so much I bought a second t5400 2x 2.5 xeon I got from computer geeks for 250. Go with an i5 build with 2500k as the cpu, one of the best cpus for the buck right now. If I were you Id build an i5 or an AMD (the Phenom IIs are getting cheap, almost off market though) I built my rig for 950 (Well, just over 800, but the SSD was a gift) CPU - AMD FX-6100 Black Edition Mobo - BIOSTAR TA990FXE AM3 RAM - 8GB 2x4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2000 GPU - nVidia GeForce 550Ti (ZOTAC TA-50401-10L) Case - CoolerMaster HAF 922 ATX Mid Tower PSU - SeaSonic X650 80PLUS Gold Fully Modular HDD - WD CaviarBlue 500GB SATA 6Gbs SSD - Corsair Force 3 Series 90GB SSD You can go with a non Modular PSU and a cheaper case and allocate that money elsewhere (like a more powerful GPU). I have however, used a Dell Precision T5400 for about 2 years 3.16 quad core xeon (5460), 12GB DDR2-5300, nVidia GTX 285, WD RE4 500GB, 2-Sony Optiarc 24X, m-audio 2496, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Dell Precision T5400 Specifications Windows 7 Ultimate 64.