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From: Syfo-Dyas on 10 Mar 2010 20:08
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:40:26 +1100, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:38:41 -0500, Nil
><rednoise(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>
>>On 09 Mar 2010, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote in
>>alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:
>>
>>> I no longer have the patience to build my own. I now pick all the
>>> compoments and get my local shop to put it together for me. Only
>>> costs $85 more and is still cheaper than a similar specked brand
>>> name.
>>
>>That's surprising to hear. Shipping for the components is the most
>>time-consuming part. Once you have all the parts in hand, the actual
>>assembly takes very little time.
>
>No shipping involved. I just go to the shop and order the PC after
>perusing their web site and reading reviews of those components
>
>DJT

What is the name and address of the shop?
From: Nil on 10 Mar 2010 22:48
On 10 Mar 2010, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

> No shipping involved. I just go to the shop and order the PC after
> perusing their web site and reading reviews of those components

I meant to type "shopping", not "shipping", although shipping would
factor into it, too.

So, in your case, you're restricted to the components that they carry.
If that were any of the local computer stores around here, that
probably wouldn't be good enough for me.
From: DJT on 11 Mar 2010 15:26
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:08:30 -0500, Syfo-Dyas <Syfo-Dyas(a)nomail.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:40:26 +1100, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:38:41 -0500, Nil
>><rednoise(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On 09 Mar 2010, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote in
>>>alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:
>>>
>>>> I no longer have the patience to build my own. I now pick all the
>>>> compoments and get my local shop to put it together for me. Only
>>>> costs $85 more and is still cheaper than a similar specked brand
>>>> name.
>>>
>>>That's surprising to hear. Shipping for the components is the most
>>>time-consuming part. Once you have all the parts in hand, the actual
>>>assembly takes very little time.
>>
>>No shipping involved. I just go to the shop and order the PC after
>>perusing their web site and reading reviews of those components
>>
>>DJT
>
>What is the name and address of the shop?

We are talking about Melbourne Australia.

We still have reasonable sized computer shops here, and most are
cheaper than the big retail chains which sell your HP & Acer etc


DJT
From: DJT on 11 Mar 2010 15:35
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:48:43 -0500, Nil
<rednoise(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:

>On 10 Mar 2010, DJT <dtope(a)hotmail.com.au> wrote in
>alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:
>
>> No shipping involved. I just go to the shop and order the PC after
>> perusing their web site and reading reviews of those components
>
>I meant to type "shopping", not "shipping", although shipping would
>factor into it, too.
>
>So, in your case, you're restricted to the components that they carry.
>If that were any of the local computer stores around here, that
>probably wouldn't be good enough for me.

That is no problem as they carry a huge range. As I previously posted
we are talking Melbourne Australia.
This store does seem to be different to some other relatively large
computer sellers as they mostly have the cheapest price when you take
in the lack of shipping.
Over here the overall cost is generally more expensive than US.
Dell is mainly Mail order and most of the other Big names sell thru
large retail chains which sell at rip off prices.

DJT
From: ToolPackinMama on 11 Mar 2010 20:23
On 3/10/2010 9:23 AM, Larc wrote:

> Depriving me of planning and then putting together and optimizing a new PC would
> be cruel and unusual punishment. That takes precedence over eating and
> sleeping, IMHO. ;)

I just built another new one. I love that new PC smell.

I will keep assembling my own as long as I can. I truly enjoy picking
out the parts and then putting them all together.

I don't believe that Dell builds them better than I do for cheaper. For
one thing, I bought one very nice Lian Li all aluminum case a few years
ago, and that same case has housed four different incarnations of my
personal PC.

I don't get a new DVD writer drive every time I upgrade, the one I have
still works fine.

When my hard drive crashed, I didn't replace the whole computer, I just
replaced the hard drive. Ditto with any other single component.

As it is, my current computer has the same original case, DVD and FDD.
Everything else has been upgraded or replaced several times. Right now
I have a new PSU (replaced about a month ago), a newish HD (replaced
about 6 months ago), and a totally new motherboard/CPU/RAM/Vid card.

My latest upgrade cost about 450 USD and what I have is a whole new
computer that performs as well as anything Dell lately offers for three
times the price.

As usual I bought my hardware online from New Egg. Details:

1 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 80W
Dual-Core Processor Model HDZ550WFGIBOX - Retail $119.99

1 A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual
Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model HY63I1B16K - Retail $97.99

1 GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AM3 AMD 770 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD
Motherboard - Retail $94.99

1 GIGABYTE GV-N250-1GI GeForce GTS 250 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0
x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Retail $129.99


Nothing too fancy, just updated everything and increased my RAM. I am
now running Win 7 64 bit.




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