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Dell T20 Xeon for £299.99 @ Ebuyer (£189.99 after cashback)

£299.99 Ebuyer12 Jun 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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robs1

11 Jun 16

Think this is the lowest it's been?

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cutthroat_jake

11 Jun 16 13 #2

I got mine last week (from serversplus) and made a few mods....

http://s33.postimg.org/6gvi3sgen/T20.jpg

1) I added an ASUS AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB DDR3 Graphics Card
2) I added a solid state drive for Windows Server 2012.
3) I added 2 sticks of 8GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 PC3-12800 to go with the 4GB already there (20GB in total).
4) I added a StarTech.com 4 Port PCIe 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card for the extra drives.
5) I popped in two StarTech 4xSATA Power Splitter Adapter Cables for the extra drives.
6) Fitted a new cage and two new caddy trays (both bought on eBay), ready for the two extra drives (only one installed at the moment).

So, now I have 5 x 3TB WD Red NAS HDDs, with a 6th to add at a later date; all configured in (software) RAID5.

Pretty happy with my setup....for now.

Latest comments (59)

cutthroat_jake

11 Jun 16 13 #2

I got mine last week (from serversplus) and made a few mods....

Magnets to cutthroat_jake

11 Jun 16 #11

Have you tried using the low power sleep modes? I read somewhere that the PSU makes a coil whine when the machine is on standby/Wake on lan.

uni to cutthroat_jake

11 Jun 16 #14

i stuck an SSD and 2.5" drive in the otical bay and in addition to the 4x3.5" spaces i put another 3.5" on the top of the bottom cage and one slides into the space underneath the top drives. i put 2xpcie 2 port SATA cards in though. 2 of my older cards wouldn't work with win10

i was also going to get a R7 240 for about £50 or maybe a R7 250 for £10/£15 more. it looks like if it's in the top slot it will block the PCI-e slot underneath though? which would mean having to use the lower slots

i got my cashback confirmed by dell, so it worked out at £72 after cashback for the G3220 model with 4gb ram, which is crazy cheap. at some point in the future i might upgrade the CPU

phpandsql to cutthroat_jake

13 Jun 16 #33

Nice setup, where did you get the HDD cage? thanks

phpandsql to cutthroat_jake

23 Nov 16 #59

thanks for the info, the graphics card's hdmi port can support 2k monitors? or do you have a suggestion of one with displayport at the same price range please?

chandun

1 Aug 16 #58

just update to all.. I have also contacted dell this morning. they corrected the amount to 110.
Thanks
chandun

adyDeals

31 Jul 16 #56

I contacted Dell Trade To Save, they're aware of the error in the claim form, told me to submit anyway and they'd correct the amount when they assessed my claim. Indeed, my claim approval email stated £110

panrix to adyDeals

31 Jul 16 #57

Thanks for taking the time to let us know that. Much appreciated :smile:

chandun

30 Jul 16 #55

Yes just tried myself too.. they offer only 70. they cheeted us ?

chandun

30 Jul 16 #54

Yes just tried myself too.. they offer only 70. they cheeted us ?

panrix

30 Jul 16 #53

I've just gone to make my claim and only been offered £70. Anyone else had the same issue?

arthurplank

19 Jun 16 #52

A keyboard, a mouse, and a display to use it as a desktop.
Personally, I plan to add an SSD for the operating system to give a file access speed boost and perhaps another 4GB RAM, but i'd see how much need there was for it after setting up and testing the OS and app's.

vwblack

18 Jun 16 #51

Would I need to add anything to this apart from an operating system?

treadingit

18 Jun 16 #50

It's a nice piece of kit although there is some coil whine that only happens about half of the time when the server is shut down but plugged in. There's no switch on the back to cut power so has to be unplugged or turned off at the wall to stop it.

For the dell cashback you're supposed to wait one month after purchase before you can submit the claim then once processed it takes up to 30 days, took about 30 days for me so about 2 months wait for it but very straightforward.

arthurplank

15 Jun 16 #49

Mine too!

vwblack

14 Jun 16 #47

anyone know where i can get a great price on a home pc tower?

arthurplank to vwblack

15 Jun 16 1 #48

That is like asking "what car should I buy?".
My answer, an Ariel Atom, oh that is unless you want to go shopping, or put the dog in the back.
The server here is a PC tower, and will do a good job as a desktop PC if it does what you want it to do, so to speak.
Hardcore gamers would not consider it without some serious upgrading.
It will outperform most if not all desktops for office applications at the same price after cashback, so, in that sense, it is good value.

smr1

14 Jun 16 1 #46

Can something be noisy, old and dusty while also being like new?

arthurplank

14 Jun 16 #44

£5 Quidco?

panrix to arthurplank

14 Jun 16 1 #45

Mine has tracked.

n707301

14 Jun 16 #43

I saw a 5x to 10x speed up in our test framework with the Pentium (not the Xeon) but your usage might have different results. Certainly a very worthwhile upgrade at this price.

joshtbh

14 Jun 16 #42

Cheers, i'm assuming a lot faster in it's operation too? Only reason I have to upgrade is for Plex but not sure I can be bothered for someone elses' benefit lol

n707301

14 Jun 16 #41

I have the T20 Pentium and it is a lot quieter than the NL36 it replaced - albeit the NL36 is old and dusty, but then I guess anyone looking at replacing an NL36 probably also has an old and dusty one.

BTW, if anyone wants an NL36 (boxed and like new - excluding dustiness) then PM me.

Zub

12 Jun 16 1 #27

It's not a home PC it's a server.

olops to Zub

14 Jun 16 #40

Yep, well I assume so - please let me know if you've tried this - I bought a similar spec'd machine (Lenovo TS140) to use as a workstation running Windows 10 and it was an excellent upgrade. The only (small) issue is that as it is designed as a server it won't sleep. Big plus for me as a developer was triple monitor support via onboard video card - no upgrade required. I added RAM and SSD and all is good.

BogBeast

14 Jun 16 #39

not this again.. I might have to buy another !!

These are fantastic boxes for the money

ColG

14 Jun 16 #38

Maybe relevent, but i have a Xeon Lenovo TS140 as well as a microserver and the Xeon is pretty much silent.. miles quieter than the N36.

Anthonis

13 Jun 16 #37

a bit daft as ebuyer don't list extended warranty prices.... Otherwise would grab one.

jamesp26

13 Jun 16 1 #30

I am looking to upgrade from a NL36. Any ideas if this is any noiser?

joshtbh to jamesp26

13 Jun 16 #36

would like to know this too

Tyriale

13 Jun 16 #35

I have now ordered one of these, after few miserable failures to grab one of mis-priced QNAPs with Red drives from Amazon this feels like a better resolution!

cutthroat_jake

13 Jun 16 1 #34

This guy on eBay.

Juan Kuzov

13 Jun 16 #32

this is a lovely quiet server, got one in my store cupboard

basergorkobal

13 Jun 16 #31

Looks really tempting.
I'm thinking of replacing my old workstation with this. Tempted by the CPUs performance and TDP.
Could one of the owners confirm if the cooler can easily be upgraded to a tower one and so the PSU.
Would I see an improvement over an heavily overclocked i5 2500? I want to stick a basic low power GPU in as well (r285) for the odd game.

themanwithapc

13 Jun 16 #29

Anybody care to comment on noise? We have a previous Dell server in the office and it is pretty loud.

dryspuri

12 Jun 16 #21

what do you guys do with old system, as i build up mine for nearly 600 quids 3 years ago, now want to get rid of it all

fishmaster to dryspuri

12 Jun 16 #22

You can sell on Facebook but don't try and take the mick with your price as they know what things are worth >

https://www.facebook.com/groups/wookies.pcfreaks/

Daltone to dryspuri

12 Jun 16 2 #23

I like to coat mine in whipped cream and feed it to the ants. Data security. You know.

Sp0oner to dryspuri

12 Jun 16 #28

I securely wipe mine then sell in the local paper for decent money. I never sell tech on that well known bidding site as it's too risky for being ripped off.

And heat for me as with the cash back this is a cracking spec for the money.

vwblack

12 Jun 16 #26

Hello all, including the few techies on here.

Can I ask, is this a decent home PC as I was wanting to replace the one I have had for last 5 years and takes ages to load up now.

bulwer

12 Jun 16 #25

We have bought about 20 of these at work. Beefed them up with RAM and RAID disks and most are happily running 3-4 VMs.

nia112001

11 Jun 16 #9

these are probably a beefed up Celeron at this price so I would doubt it'd be any good for a gaming machine but it'd be a great home server

Minstadave to nia112001

12 Jun 16 #24

It's not a celeron, it's a full quad core part.

robs1

11 Jun 16 2 #12

Gaming? The processor could cope, but as mentioned above, the PSU might struggle with a high performance video card.
The processor is not a beefed up Celeron, it's a quad core Xeon E3-1225V3, on a par with an i5 - 6600T according to CPU benchmark. It flies.

speculatrix to robs1

12 Jun 16 #20

I agree, it's a true quad core, not a dual with hyper threading. It's also fairly power efficient when idle. An equivalent core-i5 CPU alone costs over £130?

Uridium

12 Jun 16 #19

I'm looking for a server to replace my ageing Proliant ML110 but this seems to be lacking front drive bays and has no Drac card either..think I'll have to hold out for a deal on a Proliant ML10

Wezhayw

12 Jun 16 #18

ECC gets disabled when mixed with non ECC memory in my experience

panrix

12 Jun 16 #17

I would also be interested in any problems of mixing RAM types.

smr1

12 Jun 16 #16

So you have mixed 16GB of non ECC DDR3 with 4GB of ECC?

phpandsql

11 Jun 16 2 #15

Nice system, i added one ssd for system and three hdds as raid 0, runing Ubuntu 16.04 server headless. Perfect home server for plex, nas, bit torrenting, website hosting and MySQL db for my Raspberry pi sensors. As well as kvm running a few virtual machines for different services like pi-hole.

freakstyler

11 Jun 16 1 #13

You can get cable adapters allowing you to use a standard ATX power supply.

riccom

11 Jun 16 #10

forget gaming, with a 290w psu in this you will struggle to get it to run many of the newer/higher spec video cards . Dell mobos / psu's dont cater well for gaming mods.

stelo

11 Jun 16 #8

is it any good for gaming? is the processor okay for modern gaming?

littld

11 Jun 16 1 #7

Could this work as a basic gaming machine (assuming I add the right graphics card)? I don't have a gaming background but could do with being able to test some games and game programming but I don't want to spend a load of money on it. thanks

skykid3

11 Jun 16 #6

Product Form Factor: Mini tower
Internal Bays Qty: 4
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1225V3 / 3.2 GHz (Quad-Core)

RAM: 4 GB / 32 GB (max) DDR3 SDRAM - ECC 1600 MHz DIMM 240-pin

Graphics: Intel HD Graphics P4600

No operating system

robs1

11 Jun 16 #5

I don't think there is a 'possibly' (this was modified after I posted it). You should get it.
Cashback is direct from Dell & details here:

https://plus.delltradetosave.com/gb/en/pages/promotions/qualifying

I bought one a few months ago (for more... ) and cashback came through fine.

Great machines, and very quiet.

bouncy99

11 Jun 16 #4

im very tempted by this. whats the "possibly" regarding the cashback?

tawse57

11 Jun 16 #3

How noisy is this?

cutthroat_jake

11 Jun 16 #1

Nice box. Nice price.

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