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What brand of PC is in your cabinet?
heffe2001:
--- Quote from: Onyx_PghPA on October 12, 2007, 09:16:46 am ---What I tend to do is build a new PC every 12-18 months and the "old" PC goes to some other task, so the PC I build last year is now in my cabinet and the one before that is working as a domain/file server for all of my machines.
Onyx
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That's basically what my 2 systems above are, both are systems from work that were upgraded and then shelved (for whatever reason we don't cycle them down, we just replace and trash perfectly good working systems).
knave:
I used to be dead set against any pre-fab'ed PC. But slowly Dell has gained more of my respect. I still build my own PC's since the benifits of hand selecting my own parts are still worth it.
Dell still makes some crap but for the most part the Optiplex PC's I work with everyday are not bad. Lots of usb ports, innovative cooling and case design, AGP ports or PCI-e.
They are pretty upgradable but not as much as something home built. I still like them and would not hesitate to put them into a cab.
DaOld Man:
I used a out-of-case board on my first build, An AMD 1 gig (Im planning to upgrade it soon).
On the next two builds I used IBM NetVistas, with 2.4 gig P4. I got these machines cheap off the net, and I like em a lot!.
My last build, due to the budget I was given, I used another bought off the net, P3 997 mhz PC (cant remember the name of it).
I definitely like using a PC in the case.
The first I built looked really cool, because it looked so "out of the ordinary" on the inside. But we had a Christmas party and the arcade was the focal point of attention, but NO ONE looked inside it.
And mounting a PC case is a lot easier than mounting a board, power supply, hard drive, etc.
So I went with in-the-case PC's from then on out, and probably will next time, unless I come across a super cheap deal on a MB CPU mem combo.
tommy:
It does not matter what name the pc is, it's what's inside that counts. :angel:
Level42:
I've got just the cheapest MoBo i could get, put an affordable yet pretty powerful Proc on it, got the cheapest Power Supply and some used Harddisk and other stuff...saves loads of money :)