[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 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.

Yuck.  There goes that idea.

Peace...  Sridhar