Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:38:19 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 1)I do not understand it. How is it possible? In that case I expect that another company is going to go to the market and build better machines for people for the same price. I thought that the people who build the prebuilt computers are not stupid. How is it possible that they cannot do exactly the work that you do? The only reason that I can imagine is if the job of building computers in the way that you do it is a hard work of many hundreds of hours even for people with experience in building computers(I talk about human time and not machine time) but even in that case I expect the best prebuilt computers not to have problems because people who buy them want the best thing and I believe that a price that is bigger by 1000$ is not a problem for them if they get better performance. 2)I do not understand nothing about building computers. How did you learn it? Is there a link in the internet that give explanation step by step how to build computers or do you need to learn a special course? 3)How much time did you spend per computer in order to build your computers? Uri
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