ProudPony

Double -

I have killed THREE, yes 3 Dell GX270 Optiplex motherboards in the last 4 months. I run lots of 3d CAD and analysis software, and apparently the capacitors don't like much abuse. All three were capacitor problems on the main board. The Dell rep just replaced the boards and left each time.

PS - the only hint that it is going is when you drag your mouse over text to cut/copy/paste, and you actually hear the motherboard start making a squealing noise while you are loading the RAM. The next hint is your screen going blank and smoke coming from the back of your desktop cabinet.

I have "benchmarked" several new Dell computers lately, and I wonder why they are still doing so well?

Sorry - Back to the thread topic...

stars1010

What?


I don’t get it, what did I have coming!?!

I am the evil monkey……Its even how Mr. Settlemire remembered me at the Fort Worth Camaro get-together….

He was like “Oh yeah the monkey guy”

I’m sending snorkelface a cease and desist order……

HAZ-Matt

I don't know what you had coming, just that you got it

stars1010

Evilfrog

All the MBs that have been replaces after Nov. havent had a problem. But we have replaced close to 9000 MBs.

Right back on topic.

I see no problem with a company buying another company's product to rip it a part and see whats wrong with it.

morb|d

CAPACITOR PLAGUE

A case of "reverse engineering" gone awry if there ever was one. Some blame espionage...

90rocz

The Japanese do it as much or more than the rest. I personally worked in the Engineering dept (Japanese company)and working closely with the Q.A. dept, for new product development, I have see them buy several competetors product, monthly. We tore them apart, took measurements, and did comparatives studies on them. In the end, it let us know where we stood, where we needed to improve, and even how much they had reversed our designs.
I think it helps the progress of technology, as long as there are no patent right infringements.

Evilfrog

Yep. Which is why I brought it up on this topic. Well, someone else brought up how the chinese suck at reverse engineering. I was just throwing out an example. Japanese are awesome at it. I dont know of any other culture that can take an ideal, tear it apart, and figure out what makes it tick. Then they build thier own. Only they improve on the old one.

Threxx

Speaking of Dell capacitors, I just setup 40 or so new Dell GX620s with January production dates. Lets hope they got the kinks worked out.

I went to WD Raptor drives on all of them as well... no failing maxtors for me.

morb|d

I haven't met a Maxtor that didn't let me down yet... yet somehow the "failing" IBM GXPs are still ticking (not so much clicking). But anyway...

mr00jimbo

Nice.
I think Toyota did that with the Silverado to build the Tundra. That or got GM to help them.

Threxx

The Tundra, at least in looks, always seemed much more similar to the F150 than the Silverado, to me.