[luau] blindsided

[Randall Oshita]

Percision 530!!! WOW that's a beast alright.
My experience with Duals is that you should always have matched pairs.
Both the family and the batch should be the same; not to mention that
both CPUs NEED to be the same speeds as well. Look on the CPU for this
information. 
Its going to be a bitch to find the matching CPU on your own. Try
CompUSA as I had wonderful experiences with them. If not you should
contact Dell for it, they gonna rip you off but they should save you on
trouble and restocking fees. 

Hope this helps.

Randall Oshita, IT Manager
Uniserve, Inc.
Email: roshita at uniserveinc.com
Ph: 808.956.1065
Fax: 808.956.1008
Web: www.uniserveinc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
[mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Lockhart
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:24 AM
To: luau
Subject: [luau] blindsided


Sorry, not a linux specific question, but hey, it's for my linux box ;o)

I have a Dell Precision 530 workstation, one of those dual Xeon systems,
though I ordered only a single processor.  I recently ordered a second
processor from a company called Googlegear.com (this is where the bad
karma comes in...).  Basically I ordered a 1.5Ghz Xeon processor.  I got
it, and installed it, and get a processor mismatch warning.  So I go
reading through the (ok, admittedly, not-so-)fine print, and find out
that
what they sent me was a Xeon processor that only supports dual
processing.
I hadn't known there was such a beast.  Any ideas whether this thing
ought
to work?  I'm thinking that I need two "independent operation capable"
processors for my box.

The unhappy ending is that the company isn't very kind, they're charging
me a 15% restocking fee + I pay shipping.  My explanation that what I
ordered and what I got is, according to them, not valid, as I ordered an
item with a particular part number and got an item with that part
number.
Kind of a bait-n-switch, but not a lot that I can do.

Sorry if I'm just ranting, it's been a long morning already.

-Charles

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