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Now I looked around and we know the new Dells come with Ubuntu as an option but did you know the old Dells run linux. Now not for just a home computer. Now I was on Amazon and I cannot afford the electricity and with garbage level home computers running $1000 sometimes then if you want power go to amazon ebay or other site that sell and type in used renew dell workstation. I wanted one 48gb ram dual xeon and it was like over $5000 new but under 500 used but the xeons if used as my home pc that is on 18 hrs a day would run the electric bill up $100 a month and if you run a website are compiling or encoding or run blender a dual xeon with a ton of ram with Linux would cut your time in a 1/3 of what it takes with a regular home system. These cases they're in are like the old cases you don't see around anymore you can kick and they don't fall apart and the power supplies are top end and over 500 watts. Hell buying one or more and reselling to an area business with the windows10 installed in many of them and others with no OS would be profitable for a place that uses blender or other programs that are pushing a normal system or even a company that want's to use it as a server or if you have a family you can use it to be your own home server or even a mirror for Linux or whatever you want to distribute with a great internet connection. Just want to pass this find on so anyone that needs a new system can have a chance to buy something that might last 10 years and run like a racecar with the integrity of a tank.

Now I looked around and we know the new Dells come with Ubuntu as an option but did you know the old Dells run linux. Now not for just a home computer. Now I was on Amazon and I cannot afford the electricity and with garbage level home computers running $1000 sometimes then if you want power go to amazon ebay or other site that sell and type in used renew dell workstation. I wanted one 48gb ram dual xeon and it was like over $5000 new but under 500 used but the xeons if used as my home pc that is on 18 hrs a day would run the electric bill up $100 a month and if you run a website are compiling or encoding or run blender a dual xeon with a ton of ram with Linux would cut your time in a 1/3 of what it takes with a regular home system. These cases they're in are like the old cases you don't see around anymore you can kick and they don't fall apart and the power supplies are top end and over 500 watts. Hell buying one or more and reselling to an area business with the windows10 installed in many of them and others with no OS would be profitable for a place that uses blender or other programs that are pushing a normal system or even a company that want's to use it as a server or if you have a family you can use it to be your own home server or even a mirror for Linux or whatever you want to distribute with a great internet connection. Just want to pass this find on so anyone that needs a new system can have a chance to buy something that might last 10 years and run like a racecar with the integrity of a tank.

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I was thinking of upgrading for more power so I can run blender and was thinking of hooking up a 4K tv also so RP is out of the question for all of that. I'd add a video card but cheap ass Dell only give a power lead for a dvd player and the drive you get with it. Has 3 bay but you have to upgrade PS to be able to have a power lead to hook up to it. I tried a splitter a year ago an it wouldn't boot and the PS is only 160 watts so only weak graphics cards could be hooked up. I was thinking of putting the PS outside and side of PC off as usual runs cooler and then run cables into that side opening and then add another ram stick 16gb max ddr3 "sucks" and only low profile cards on a midsized case that is made so replacing the MB is not an option since the board in there has the entire top right as an open square area with the drive bays in the way of a square or rectangular board. I did the pricing and that kind of upgrade gives a boost but will cost around $400 or more and I can get a used entire system for less that is running well though I'll get the insurance to make sure since stuff is so randomly garbage like tv's with broken screens that the companies refuse and exchange without the insurance they offered even though Amazon says on the page a 30 day guarantee there are in the reviews where Amazon said not us on the same product and told them they have to go to the company that sold it on Amazon instead.