A few very interesting deals from Dell this week — A Pentium 4 with HT desktop and 19″ LCD for less than $900 and the sub-$500 PowerEdge SC430 budget server is back.

Dimension 3100 for $898 Delivered

Thanks to recent Intel discount on their out-going Pentium 4, Dimension 3100 with 19inch LCD has been discounted to $898. Looks like quite a nice workhorse for a home multimedia computer or office work-station to me.

• Processor: Pentium 4 Processor 524 with HT (3.06Ghz)
• Memory: 512Mb DDR2
• Harddrive: 80Gb SATA
• Monitor: 19inch Dell UltraSharp LCD
• Graphics: Intel Media Accelerator
• Optical drive 16x DVD ROM
• Operating System: Windows XP Home

The integrated graphics is a bit weak, and only has VGA/D-Sub port, even though the 19″ UltraSharp has a DVI input. E-Value code is N240902, and the discount will be valid until 14 September 2006.

PowerEdge SC430 for $498 Delivered

I have blogged about the PowerEdge SC430 before here, and now it finally came back to the price that matches the crazy discount from early this year. Still — same spec with dual core Pentium D 2.8Ghz and 256Mb ECC memory, but now Dell is selling these for $498 after $100 price cut.

• Processor: Pentium D dual core 2.8Ghz
• Memory: 256Mb ECC DDR2
• Harddrive: 80Gb SATA
• Network: Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet

Whirlpool forum community has constructed a Dell SC430 wiki page that detailed people’s experience with this piece of budget server hardware, especially where you can source cheap ECC memory to use on SC430. E-Value code is N420989, and this deal expires on 28 September 2006.