[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Those cheap Dell servers that people have been picking up lately...
> do their motherboards conform to a standard form-factor or are they
> something proprietary?

Dell parts are notoriously proprietary for no good reason at all.  You
have, at a start, modified ATX and BTX motherboards that put screw-holes
in strange places, power supplies where the 20 or 24-pin "ATX" power
connector has a few interesting pins swapped around to ensure hilarity
at first power-up, and CPU coolers that demand the rest of the
suboptimal chassis.

They're rather a bit like Compaq used to be in that regard.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Elgin, TX
USA