Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 08:41:12 02/22/03
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On February 22, 2003 at 08:58:57, David Rasmussen wrote: >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 I have no doubt that they can be built cheaper than Dell builds them. But i have three hour same-day service if it breaks :-) And You can not build them faster than the current high end processors will allow. whether it is built by dell or by me a 3.06 is a 3.06.
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