Re: New Dell 4600 and Temp. Monitors

non-oem desktop motherboards are marketed to builders who often engage in
overclocking their processors (running them at speeds faster than the
manufacturer intended then to operate at) and that can only effectively be
done if the temperature is monitored. on oem desktop pcs (such as dell)
that limit the ability to overclock the processor there is very little
upside to monitoring temperatures.

and yes, you did got what you paid for, and you didn't pay for a temperature
monitor ;)

"wotsthepoint" <wotsthepoint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:gMuXe.127450$e95.55189@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I really really cannot believe that in this supposedly enlightened
> age, a genuine answer comes back that says "so there is really no
> need to..."
>
> What kind of asinine response is that? Just because you cannot think
> (or in this case DELL cannot think) of a reason why somebody would
> want to monitor the temperatures does not mean that "there is really
> no need".
>
> As a customer I want to monitor the temperatures. I do not want to be
> told ever by any technical support that I am somehow crazy for
> wanting to do that. Especially on a monday morning when a handful of
> my PCs crashed over the weekend because they overheated.
>
> THE VAST MAJORITY of (non-dell) motherboards have a temperature
> monitoring facility. If it is true that the DELL 4600 does not then I
> am truly not surprised. DELL are a "budget" supplier and will
> therefore want to cut corners wherever possible. In this case they
> cut it by not providing temperature monitoring on the motherboard.
> For the technical staff to try to cover this up by pretending that
> "there really is no need" is frankly insulting but unfortunately par
> for the course these days.
>
> I would have posted this complaint to DELL on their customer service
> forums, but they took them down because they were receiving too many
> complaints. Still that's what you get with a budget supplier like
> DELL - you get what you pay for.
>


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