Picked this up today. Another person and I were talking about computer related stuff and one of the teachers asked if we would like to look at the stuff in the staff room that was going to be thrown out. Noticed this and couldn't leave it there. Tomorrow I'll grab the 2nd XPS, an older one (600 I believe). None of it came from the school so who knows where it came from.
Got it like this:
Q6600
No ram
No HDD
GT240 1 gig
Sound Blaster XF-i SB0460
Fixed some cable management (hard to do in this case) and put some different parts in it.
Q6600
1 gig of ram. As with every other Dell in existence I've tried the Patriot ram does NOT work as a pair, only one stick at a time despite passing memtest multiple times.
750 gig Hitatchi HDD
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 meg. Not as much video ram as the GT240 but being as the GTS250 was in essence a rebadge of the 9800 GTX+ I don't see how it could be any better.
Random PCI wireless card
SB XF-i SB0460