im just kiddin, thats exactly what i did. so much cheaper to build it yourself. now for my exciting friday night of installing headers on my friends F350.
Yeah me neither, i just upgrade parts every so often. Last year i bought a new mother board, so naturally i had to buy new ram (DDR ) and a processor (P4 2gig). Next up in the list is to replace my slightly outdated (4 or so years old) video card.
as for 'off the shelf' computers......
My company just bought a new comp from Dell for the secretaries, and HOLY CRAP is it filled with junk. There mustve been 15-20 icons on the desktop! I could probably sit there for over a half hour deleting crap that theyd never even consider using.
reptillikus, "That" is why I never buy another off the shelf computer, Back in the day, my 'rents bought a goold old HP 3165 P150 blah, blah, and if it wasn't filled with so much crap, it had a 1.6 gb drive in it, and 800 megs were filled with their crap :uke:
well so gar its together and running, all fans work, floppy works, hard drive works, cd rom works, windows is loaded, temp is in range, only problem is i have a led wire crossed somewhere, the power light doesnt show when on but the standby light does, i'll figure that out tommorow
heres what i have in it...
ATX Mid Tower Case with 10 BAYS 400 WATT power = $27.50
Gigabyte GA-7VAX
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Core
512 DDR 2700 Ram
80 GB Maxtor Hard Drive
HIS Radeon 9200 VIVO Video
16x Pioneer DVD Rom
16x10x40 HP CD Burner
Thermaltake Volcano 7 Cooling Fan
Soundblaster Live! Value
Antec Case Cooling Fan
I beleive that about it, this computer has slowly been built up ver the years, so I can't put a price on the total, bit I just replaced the Video Card, the Hard Drive, the Motherboard, RAM, and CPU in the last year
I too tried and failed at a Thinkpad 600...then again the battery is dead and cost more than trying to fix the dang thing. I'll stick to building desktops..though I've gotten into the habbit of only a cpu fan/heatsink and leaving the case fully open.
nice deal building ur comp! :thumbup I just built one too about 3 weeks ago or so. It came out to a little over 1000 bux because I kept my 2 80 gig IBM drives and my GF4 card from my old comp. Here are some pics...
Kinda bright in my room in the pictures...Ill try to take some at night. And yes, It is watercooled.
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) and a processor (P4 2gig). Next up in the list is to replace my slightly outdated (4 or so years old) video card.
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