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Winchendon
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September 1st, 2006 11:00
2nd Nvidia 6800 card
Called spare parts...
They have both the 6800 (same as my original vanilla card) and the bridge I will need for the grand price of.......
$10.00 for the bridge
$382.00 for the card.....
Left the lady bewildered when I said NO THANKS. She was telling me but sir it's a high end card...etc.
Price Watch...get same card for $127.00
Guess I won't be putting dual cards in anytime soon unless I can be convinced that I can buy exact card somewhere else other than Dell.
keywords: exact and Dell.
BTW, when I bought a camera last week for the daughter, I asked the sales rep to look up vidcards and he could not find the 6800 in their stock.
Have to do the run around to buy some things with Dell.
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Shout out to ChrisM.....thanks the system is awesome.
Message Edited by Winchendon on 09-01-200612:33 PM
Geforce 6800: part number MG229
Unfortunately it is true - Dell's tech support and CS is very bad; it took me I forget how many iterations to get this part number from them. Between chat sessions and phone calls with both tech support and sales I would say four or five ... So don't get discouraged if you have to call them more than once; that's what "dedicated XPS support" was invented for! :-) :-)
On the flip side, I'm not sure that the competitors' support is much better. My older computer, a 2.53 GHz, is an HP, and out of a total of 7 calls to their support people, in 3 years, only ONCE were they able to help me - the 6 other times I gave up and figured it out myself. One time was the worst - they could not even locate the right manual for my system, in their own databases!!
But that's besides the point ... Good luck with your purchase.
GG
Winchendon
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Posted September 1st, 2006 16:00
You wouldn't happen to have a part number now would you?
Not one of these (unless they worked for you) because she told me they didn't exist.
320-4076 GeForce 6800 GTO (dual dvi-i, dual slot)
320-4082 GeForce 6800 (vga, s-video, dvi-i, single slot)They are PCIe 6800
Thanks for the quick reply too.
Message Edited by Winchendon on 09-01-200612:34 PM
GeekyG
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Posted September 1st, 2006 13:00
Winchendon,
Call them again, I am positive they quoted you the wrong price. I called for the same thing a couple of weeks ago (I want a second GeForce 6800 to go SLI), and two reps quoted me the same price - ~$130 plus tax.
As for being able to buy it on the outside you are correct - it is not possible, nobody else sells the plain Jane 6800 anymore.
GG