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Originally Posted by wodin
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
After spending ten years of a former life as a PC tech and white box builder, I'd just as soon go down to Best Buy and get one built by someone else.
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That's effectively what I
did do.
I used to build my own machines from components, but got cured of it. If I still did so, Micro Center has a whole DIY section with motherboards, CPUs, graphics cards, RAM, cases and the like. Those customers tend to be gamers constructing top end gaming machines. I'm not a gamer, so...
I essentially bought a packaged system off the shelf, and my actions were confined to some expansion and reusing some components from the failed machine.
The machine I got was an off-lease corporate desktop. It was usable as was, but since I had some components to reuse, I could. I think I've actually had the case open and fiddled with hardware for an hour or so all told. I spent much more time on that in my build-from-components days. Preferring to spend my time
using the machine instead of fiddling to
make it usable drives my current strategies.
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Dennis