The Future of Building your Own PC
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From: Chris S. on 12 Mar 2010 16:14 "ToolPackinMama" <philnblanc(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:hnc52l$8d3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > 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. > > > > Reminds me of an old story... A museum had on display "George Washington's Axe" It was noted that the head had been replaced once and the handle twice, but is was still the same axe that cut down the cherry tree!
From: Dewey Edwards on 16 Mar 2010 10:51
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:56:33 -0600, Rick <fholbrook(a)nospam.cableone.net> wrote: >geoff wrote: >> Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and >> said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs >> are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, >> sell them with razor thin profits. >> >> The question is, do you think stock lays around places like Newegg because >> no builds their own and what is the future of building your own? >> >> --g >> >> >My guess is that folks build their own PC because it is fun, the rest >are not interested--like my spouse and they buy Dells or Acers or HPs, >etc. the answer to your question is NO. I think that Leo is correct >but, I know that I can build a power PC for less money than I can buy one. I went to Dell's site. The basic was cheap, BUT the customizing addons that I want kicked the price over $3000. I can get this from newegg for about half. |