Upgrading my wifes PC!

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Excellent post, Rusty.
I respect the job Dell and HP do, I think they build
a reliable if not stellar performing PC. The inherent advantage that the
individual builder has is not having a lot of overhead.
Dell has economy of scale working for them.
I get a lot of jobs just because my customers know I will
drive over to their house to help them out,
a level of service Dell doesn't offer.

Jeff B

 

[Paul]

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Can I just make this point.

The reason that there is confusion over "Maximum speed" and "Margin for
error" is because when Dell, HP etc make a PC, the boards are usually custom
boards with custom BIOS that will not allow any over clocking. Hell, most
won't even take the next cpu in the line because the boards are locked to
the CPU or even worse locked to a FSB etc.

So if I were to buy a PC from DELL, I would at least like the facility to
upgrade the CPU given time, I'd like to at least use the fastest possible
FSB that was available. I may even like to use Proper memory rather than
something that DELL happened to pick up cheap on the spot market and sell to
you as "Compatable memory" at twice the price.

The ONLY way to get a decent PC that will give you years of trouble free use
is to ask someone about the components in the PC and investigate as to the
reliability of those components and if they can at least be upgraded.

 

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Hi Paul

> The ONLY way to get a decent PC that will give you years of trouble free
use
> is to ask someone about the components in the PC and investigate as to the
> reliability of those components and if they can at least be upgraded.

If you're smart enough even to spell FSB then you should just build your
own.

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Regards, Steve S.

 

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I think that most of the people who by a system from Dell/Gateway/HP etc.,
do so for two main reasons. Convenience of a ready-built box, and,
(probably for most people) the "SYSTEM WARRANTY". That grabs a lot of
people's attention. They don't realize that components come with their own
factory warranty and also don't realize that the parts don't really fail all
that often. Most of the ones at work that I have tried to talk into
building their own system have used either one or both of the above reasons.
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"Steve Sweet" <steve.sweet@no-spam@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Paul
>
> > The ONLY way to get a decent PC that will give you years of trouble free
> use
> > is to ask someone about the components in the PC and investigate as to
the
> > reliability of those components and if they can at least be upgraded.
>
> If you're smart enough even to spell FSB then you should just build your
> own.
>
> --
>
> Regards, Steve S.
>
>