Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 05:58:57 02/22/03
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On February 22, 2003 at 01:03:35, Charles Worthington wrote: >I am continually being told "how much money I can save with $100.00 cpu's and >$50.00 motherboards". Where does the assumption originate from that all people >in the market for computers are looking to save money? I am a stock broker. I >use my computer for many functions other than running chess engines. I was after >realiability and performance. I cannot deal stocks on a machine that has water >flowing through it to prevent a meltdown. Is this so hard to understand? >Stability was far more important to me than saving a little money and rigging my >machine to look like a fire station with hoses everywhere and water leaks. I >dont_want_to have to go out and buy freon to prevent another three-mile-island >disaster from occuring in my office. I want my machine R I G H T. The way it was >engineered. When you have to plug your computer in next to a fire hydrant I >think it's time to seriously evaluate what you are doing. > >Charles What do you think is important to other people, specifically people using their computers all the time for intensively for developing? Reliability, stability and performance. I built all my computers myself for these reasons: 1. The performance, reliability and stability of the computers I built is far greater than that of any pre-built machine, be it Dell, IBM, Compaq (*shudder*) or any other. 2. It is far cheaper 3. The quality of the components far exceeds that of any prebuilt computer. No Dell or IBM has a case as good as my Antec case, or a motherboard as extensively used and tested as my MSI motherboard 4. It is fun and satisfying All of this goes not only for hardware, but for software (particularly OS installation and choice) too. All the time, I help people I know or people that knows people I know, with their computers. Most computers I see have cost 3 times as much as what I could have build them for, and I would have chosen much better parts etc. I constantly encounter people who have problems with their pre-built computers, crashing or bad performance etc. It is one of the things that have puzzled me from the beginning when Bob Hyatt writes about his monster machines, that they are pre-builts. He could save a lot of money by doing it himself, and he would get a faster machine. /David
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