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Did you buy a Dell/HP/Gateway or Build your own?
Did you buy a Dell/HP/Gateway or Build your own computer?
I was wondering what percentage of people put up with Dell's with no expansion capabilities vs. building your own computer.
Thanks.
I was wondering what percentage of people put up with Dell's with no expansion capabilities vs. building your own computer.
Thanks.
I have built 2 computers and am working on #3.
I have heard nothing but bad things about dells.
Been buying my computers 'prepackaged' - but the next one I get, will likely be custom built.
Been buying my computers 'prepackaged' - but the next one I get, will likely be custom built.
I have heard and experienced nothing but good things with Dell's, especially about their user support.
I build all my pc's myself, so I can choose exactly what I want to put in it, and it saves me money.
I build all my pc's myself, so I can choose exactly what I want to put in it, and it saves me money.
I have a few Dell machines that I sorta got for free, but I built 3 of my own.
Custom Machine #1
Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 2.4GHz
512MB RAM
40GB HDD
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Custom Machine #2
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.0GHz
768MB RAM
40GB HDD
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Custom Machine #3 (Machine cheaply made, since I had a LOT of parts lying around and put them all together into a machine)
Intel Pentium 3 @ 550MHz
384MB RAM
5GB HDD
CD-RW Drive
I have a ton of machines (a lot that I didn't build) but the above are ones that I've made myself.
- Mike.
Custom Machine #1
Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 2.4GHz
512MB RAM
40GB HDD
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Custom Machine #2
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.0GHz
768MB RAM
40GB HDD
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Custom Machine #3 (Machine cheaply made, since I had a LOT of parts lying around and put them all together into a machine)
Intel Pentium 3 @ 550MHz
384MB RAM
5GB HDD
CD-RW Drive
I have a ton of machines (a lot that I didn't build) but the above are ones that I've made myself.
- Mike.
I bought a pre-built Samsung laptop.
i built my desktop about 3 or 4 years ago. 1.5G pentium 4 with ati all in wonder 4x agp card.
I'm thinking that now it's time to upgrade my pc again.
looks like pentium D is a right choice for now and i feel like i have to replace most of the parts including mobo, main memory video cards and even the power supply
i don't do game on my pc but i like to build a machine that is not too obsolete. will it be necessary to move to pci express x16 video card with SLI supporting feature? or should i be satisfied with on board video in mobos which use such as 945G chipset. what do you guys think?
I'm thinking that now it's time to upgrade my pc again.
looks like pentium D is a right choice for now and i feel like i have to replace most of the parts including mobo, main memory video cards and even the power supply
i don't do game on my pc but i like to build a machine that is not too obsolete. will it be necessary to move to pci express x16 video card with SLI supporting feature? or should i be satisfied with on board video in mobos which use such as 945G chipset. what do you guys think?
SLI is excessive, but onboard just sucks. Go with a standard PCI-E x16 board without SLI. AMD is cheaper in terms of cost/performance now, but that is supposed to change in the next 6 months.
I have been building my own since I was in Jr. High (22 now) 
Current:
Opteron 165 (dual core) @ 2.5 GHz
Radon X800XL
2 GB Mushkin PC3200
37 GB Raptor / 200 GB Western SE
XClio 480w PSU (Channel Well)
17" LCD
Eclipse keyboard / MX518 mouse / Corepad XXXL deskpad
The dual cores are great even though there are not many multi-threaded apps out there for the average user (that will soon change). I basically throw anything I want at this system and it handles it with no slowdown...zipping, burning movies, minimizing a game and doing something else, and it is a monster for the BOINC distributed computing project with an average credit of nearly 500. All my years I always dreamed of a computer that simply did what I wanted...this is it finally!
Current:
Opteron 165 (dual core) @ 2.5 GHz
Radon X800XL
2 GB Mushkin PC3200
37 GB Raptor / 200 GB Western SE
XClio 480w PSU (Channel Well)
17" LCD
Eclipse keyboard / MX518 mouse / Corepad XXXL deskpad
The dual cores are great even though there are not many multi-threaded apps out there for the average user (that will soon change). I basically throw anything I want at this system and it handles it with no slowdown...zipping, burning movies, minimizing a game and doing something else, and it is a monster for the BOINC distributed computing project with an average credit of nearly 500. All my years I always dreamed of a computer that simply did what I wanted...this is it finally!
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| I have been building my own since I was in Jr. High (22 now)
Current: Opteron 165 (dual core) @ 2.5 GHz Radon X800XL 2 GB Mushkin PC3200 37 GB Raptor / 200 GB Western SE XClio 480w PSU (Channel Well) 17" LCD Eclipse keyboard / MX518 mouse / Corepad XXXL deskpad The dual cores are great even though there are not many multi-threaded apps out there for the average user (that will soon change). I basically throw anything I want at this system and it handles it with no slowdown...zipping, burning movies, minimizing a game and doing something else, and it is a monster for the BOINC distributed computing project with an average credit of nearly 500. All my years I always dreamed of a computer that simply did what I wanted...this is it finally! |
Neat, what project are you connected to for BOINC ? I'm with Seti@Home, I have several machines around here (including the one I'm on now) trying to look for aliens. I really should put my 2 Pentium Pro machines off to the side for that, as I just recently put on a Pentium 4 system and it's beating them well into the stone age. I have other machines I can put in place of those 2 machines.
- Mike.
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