New Dell 4600 and Temp. Monitors
I thought it would please many here for me to share my recent Dell purchase attempt. I was in the market for a midsize LCD HDTV. The refurbished Dell W3000C...
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.
Well, I had a lot of ideas until you specified your budget. Hmm, well, you probably won't need dual core but it's out now so from that...
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.