Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:11:21 02/23/03
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On February 22, 2003 at 13:38:19, Uri Blass wrote: >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? You need a case, power supply, motherboard, processor, memory, floppy drive, CD drive, and one or more hard drives. It is _trivial_ to put it together. The issue is selecting the components. Dell, for example, sells Seagate SCSI drives. As good as it gets. Their power supplies are the same. My box has dual 400 watt supplies, for example. Cheapo companies use cheapo parts. Good companies give you a choice. > >3)How much time did you spend per computer in order to build your computers? I have put one together in 30 minutes. It isn't rocket science. :) I will say I don't believe that overall it is easy to buy _better_ components than what is in a "good commercially-built machine." > >Uri
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