We only have two of those that pre-date my joining the company 3 years ago. They seem to be working pretty good except for the one on-board NIC failure. Our "standard" desktop is an Optiplex 740 and have had no motherboard failures since I started getting them 3 years go. I've had *two* motherboard failures since I started here, one Dell "workstation" class machine and one off-the-shelf HP Pavilion. We did replace the motherboard on the Dell machine as that's our Marketing Manager's machine. I'd like to upgrade him sooner rather than later as he needs a fairly powerful machine for what he does (especially as he's helping out with the carpet R&D department and needs a high powered machine to run their design software.) The HP we just hooked the hard drive up to another machine and installed the label design software on the other machine and copied over the relevant templates, etc.
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Carol Fee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Low-profile desktop Ethernet adapters How has your experience been with the Optiplex GX520's. We have had roughly 30% motherboard failure rate. CFee From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Low-profile desktop Ethernet adapters I need to put a low-profile NIC to replace the on-board NIC that has gone out on one of our Dell Optiplex GX520 machines. Wondering what you guys recommend? I tried to just put an extra NIC that we have lying around in the system, but discovered that it's too tall. L Any favorite brand? Unfortunately, may favorite place (NewEgg) only carries a handful of low-profile NICs and none of them are "name brand." L John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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