Re: Can Anyone Recommend a Good PC Builder?


"johns" <johns321@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been building systems for many years, and frankly
I've never met a good system builder anywhere .. besides
myself. Reason .. I don't have to make a profit. I simply
have to produce very high quality engineering systems
that give zero downtime, and are upgradable over a
period of 5 years or more. Here's what I don't like to
see in a system build:

(snip)

10. Western Digital, or Maxtor hard drives. All of you
know better than to do that. Noisy CD-ROMS
like LG or NEC.

Oh man, you were doing good up to that point. I can agree that maxtor is
crap, and ALL manufacturers put out a dud here and there, but WD should be
at the top of your list, if it is reliability that you are aiming for. At
least, buying WD or Seagate or (now) Samsung hard drives greatly increases
your chances of getting a hard drive that will NOT die an early death. I'm
not too crazy about LG anything, but NEC optical drives are pretty good
quality. If they are "noisy", I haven't noticed. They just plain work
though, and I've never seen one fail. Not ever.

11. ASUS mobos. You fly-by-nights are going to get
caught up with sooner or later.

Oh boy. I agree with you there, 1000%. But expect to get flamed to crispy
critters for daring to speak up. Asus is truly crap, and SOME people know
that (only the most experienced in the IT field, it seems). Unfortunately,
most people are snowed by all the Asus hype. It's like a religious issue.
Calling Asus crap is blasphemous, even though it's absolutely true.
(donning flame-proof suit)

12. XFX video cards. I'm not in the market for a "new"
restock or refurb. 2nd party video cards with no
warranty. It had BETTER come from BFG or eVGA.

Hmmmm ... XFX has been pretty good to me, but so has BFG and EVGA. Of those
three, I'd say they are all excellent quality, with evga having a slight
edge over the other two.

13. Nameless ram that can't be matched if ram is added.

14. Keybds that weight less than one ounce.

What does weight have to do with anything? We deliberately replaced our
desktop's keyboard at home with a full-sized desktop-style keyboard with
notebook-style keys. If you sneeze too hard, it will fall under the desk.
But it's a real joy to type on. The keyboards that annoy me are the compact
ones, even if they weigh a ton.

Mouse
that doesn't fit my hand, and has gorilla clickers.


Well shit, that's a personal preference thing, just like the
eyboard. -Dave



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