Re: Homebuilt Maybe One More Time



On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:52:49 GMT, "Clint" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Buying may also be less hassle to get support.

I've never had much need for much support. :-) Most of my parts have
failed after the warranty period (mobo, hard drive, network adapter,
etc.)

I'm looking at ~$1700 for a Dell

XPS400
2.8GHz Pentium D
2GB mem
2 hard drives
built in media card reader
floppy drive
2 DVD burners
NVidia 6800 256MB
1394, USB ports on front.
Audigy


It will take less time to uninstall the crapware than to install a new
OS and drivers so there's that benefit. I haven't been to NewEgg or
MWave to price components. Probably not much savings for homebuilt,
huh?

-RC
.



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