REFURBISHED DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Desktop PCs Intel

by Dell

Product Details

• Item Weight: 34 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 28 pounds
• ASIN: B001E07FNK
• Item model number: GX260
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,387 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 7, 2008

Product Description

DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB

• Intel P4 1.8GHz CPU
• 256MB DDR SDRAM(2 DIMM Slots, 2GB Max.)
• 20GB Hard Drive
• CD-ROM
• 1.44 Floppy Drive
• 64MB Integrated Video
• Integrated SoundBlaster Emulation Audio with Line In/Out/Mic
• 1 AGP & 1 PCI Half-height Slots
• 2 PCI Full-height Slots
• 2 PS/2 Ports
• 4 USB Ports (2 on the front)
• 1 Serial Ports
• 1 Parallel Port
• 1 15-pin VGA Port
• Power Cord

WINDOWS 2K PRELOADED WITH NO CD.

KEYBOARD AND MOUSE ARE INCLUDED. SYSTEMS ARE GRADE A (RECONDITIONED) WITH MINOR COSMETIC BLEMISHES IN CASE. KEYBOARD WILL VARY IN BRAND, BUT ARE NEW. 6 MONTH WARRANTY. MAY BE SUBSTITUTED WITH FASTER CPU FROM TIME TO TIME.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It works well!, December 20, 2009

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Thomas Brown "Sim Whiz" (Vancouver, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: REFURBISHED DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Desktop PCs Intel (Electronics)

This computer works well. Delivery was very timely, and the experience has been satisfying, generally. There are better models, but all of my experience with dell has been good. Heartily recommend this supplier. Thanks Amazon.com.

Thomas Brown

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still useful in 2009... and cheap as dirt!, November 19, 2009

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Clamdigger (Pahoa, Hawai'i USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: REFURBISHED DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Desktop PCs Intel (Electronics)

I recently picked up a slightly defective example of one of these old 2.0 GHz Dell's at a thrift store for ten bucks... just to play with. Windows XP "Home Edition" came with the machine but it hung up on boot, and my subsequent clean install of Windows XP Pro likewise failed... It turned out that there were just too many bad sectors on the nine year old, original Maxtor hard disk for Microsoft's OS to handle.

Linux worked much, much better. Still using the original thrift store hardware - including the defective 30 gig Maxtor and a paltry 256 meg of DDR RAM that came with my machine - Ubuntu 9.10 loaded perfectly on the first try and ran like a champ, with ports and networking supported automatically by the standard installation. The standard Linux diagnostics then fingered the hard drive as my source of trouble... while giving my RAM and other Optiplex components a clean bill of health.

Bottom line: This is a fine machine to run Linux on, including the very latest versions like Ubuntu 9.10. Now, after replacing the old machine's hard disk with a new but modest 160 gig drive AND bumping the original RAM up to 2 gig - both very inexpensive upgrades these days - I am still under a hundred bucks... And the performance I'm seeing is *at least* comparable to the Windows XP Pro, multi-core Dells I support at work - despite the fact that they are 7-8 years newer, have 4 gig of faster RAM and have a lot of other improvements over the Dells of the Pentium 4 era!

Give an old, cheap Dell a new life on Linux! You will be amazed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old but Solid Thecnology, November 23, 2010

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David V. Harris "RV Madman" (Las Cruces NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: REFURBISHED DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Desktop PCs Intel (Electronics)

I bought this computer for my Grandson. I doubled the memory and installed a better graphics card. He can now run all of his games much better and faster than his old Pentium 2. I was surprised at how easy it was to open and install components. The instructions and manuls are still available online. A very good investment.