*** DEAD *** BOTH COUPONS EXPIRED

Ram Deal #1
$37 (after $30MIR). 2GB total (1GBx2) - Corsair [newegg.com]
Ram Deal #2
$30 (after $40MIR). 2GB total (1GBx2) - Corsair [outpost.com]

The E530 has 4 RAM slots total, so if you got the 1GB it will come as 512 x 2, leaving 2 open slots. 32 Bit Operating Systems (Windows XP & Windows Vista by default) do not see/user more than 3GB of RAM. Do not waste your money getting 4GB of RAM.

Guys... Please ensure you select Free 2 day shipping.. Unless you don't mind waiting for it! If you had missed it by mistake, please call customer service::::

Quote from random888 : Call customer service tomorrow morning and ask them. They are closed for the evening. Heres the number I called: 1-800-695-8133, option 4.

Per ubstudent, you can call even now.. Just select option 1 (Sales! open 24x7x365) instead of option 4 (cust service..)

Quote from ubstudent7 : On the phone, I think it was option 1? Just go thru the phone menu like you are buying a new computer. They'll be there because they want to sell sell sell!!

Those who got/get in this deal and have questions about Dell Gift Card, please read this...

Note: Although 8 weeks have gone, please wait longer. People have started to receive them and the people who contacted Dell have been informed that Dell is backlogged but WILL send them out!

Folks,
Firstly, Congrats to everyone who got on this deal!
I know everyone is eager to get the GC (100$ Dell Gift Card) and may have doubts whether you might get it or not. But please please DON'T call/chat/mail them about the GC offer. You should get the GC considering they added in their order confirmation email and per rukster, they usually do. So please restrain the urge to clarify the doubt by asking them. All of us want our GCs so kindly wait for it patiently.

These are posts I read from the earlier $519 deal:

Quote from hounddog2005 : maybe there is a bad news. Dell may not give us the gift card. I just got an email from their cs: Dear xxx: Thank you for contacting Dell. I understand that you would like to know about the gift cards which was supposed to be sent for your order. I will certainly assist you in this regards. I checked the order number xxxxxxxxx which is still in production with total cost of $6xx.xx. Please be advised that the gift card option starts from $749 - $998 for $50.00 gift card. I request you to contact Sales at 1888-987-3355 Ext xx-xxxxx as the order is still in production regarding gift card. The case number for this interaction is xxxxxx.

Quote from The Kev Master : The Kev Master is going to stick it to them that in their email they promised $100 GC.

Quote from rukster : Why does some moron has always has to ruin a deal for all others. They will send the gift card after the order ships and always they do send. When somone like you who can't STFU goes whining about every POS to customer service they flag this to their supervisors and NONE of us will get.

Quote from The Debater : If the gift card promotion was in your card, then you will get the gift card. Simply abide by the number one rule on Slickdeals, which is DO NOT CALL, in a situation like this. If the gift card was displayed in your shopping cart and in your confirmation E-mail, then it is likely that you will receive the gift card by E-mail. You will receive an actual gift card by mail. But you must read the conditions on them. To learn more about promotial gift card terms, visit http://www.dell.com/content/topic...ection=004

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If your CPU heatsink fan is running too loudly, try the following fix:

Quote from Rescuer : allright! the dell tech just left my house. he replaced the heatsink/fan, and of course it was still 4300rpms then he ran some diagnostic programs during bootup, and it showed the fans working OK. then he fiddled around in the bios a bit, everything seemed normal, but he went ahead and set everything back to default (even though it should already have been default seeing how i just got it). well that fixed it! now the cpu fan is running at a deadly silent 1541rpms, and the case fan which was running at 2300rpms is now idling at 823rpm!

Quote from silenze : I had the same fan problem. After the first reboot the fan was super loud. Reseting the bios to defaults worked. The fan is now super quiet. If your system halts during boot due to not finding the non-existent floppy drive You can disable the floppy drive in the bios without affecting the fan speed.

Q6600 can be modded to run at 3 ghz (from default 2.4 ghz)
I have confirmed that doing the BSEL mod works, the bios and windows don't show the correct speed but cpu-z does.
Here is a link for how to do the mod http://www.xtremesystems.org/foru...light=bsel so far the processor seems completely stable with the Dell PSU and with the default voltage

TIP FOR THE BSEL MOD TO MAKE IT EASIER:

Quote from GenerationSlick : The diagram is used for illustration purposes only. All I did was cut 3 tiny strips of electrical tape and taped it over the area that is marked in red. Make sure when you cut that it does not cover the pin in the middle of it that isn't marked in red or your CPU might be not detected. The diagram marks the RED in half a box shape but it's much harder when you got big fingers so I taped it down with more of V shape. If there will be heavy inquiries about this, I will take out my CPU and snap a shot of how I did it. Otherwise, I rather not mess around with it.

I can verify this statement, I've done it myself and worked like a charm. IN SHORT, THE BSEL MOD CAN BE DONE BY JUST TAPING OVER WITH ELECTRICAL TAPE INSTEAD OF TRACING WITH CIRCUIT INK.

ALL YOU NEED IS SOME ELECTRIC TAPE, GET TO THE PROCESOR, TAPE OVER THE 3 STRIPES THE RED LINE SHOWN IN THE DIAGRAM AND REASSEMBLE EVERYTHING. VOILA, YOU GOT YOURSELF A 3GHZ QUAD CORE PROCESSOR!! It takes max 10 min!!

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...boxador/OC.jpg

Sandra sisoft reports 3ghz as the frequency and also cpu-z 1330 as the front side bus speed. I've run a few benchmarks with Sandra Sisoft and I'm getting the same scores as the 3.0 ghz Quad core (don't remember model), around 15% to 20% higher than the reference Q6600 2.4 ghz processor.

This mod is just awesome, it took me around 15 min, with 5 of those min spent in reopening the case since I forgot to hook the cpu fan back in.