I prefer building my own as well. I've found that the low- and mid-range systems tend to be cheaper if you buy a brand (you'll be locked in, but those systems probably don't have a lot of shelf life anyways), but for the high end, you can get some serious bang for your buck building your own - I recently built a screamer (7.6 WEI) for $1500 (SSD, 4 1TB drives in RAID 10, 8GB Corsair memory, i7 2600K) - I bought it at MicroCenter, and probably could have shaved off a couple hundred bucks if I gone with NewEgg.
Billy Cravens [email protected] On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > I am more of a fan of building it myself. Most boards are plug and play. So > no jumper or bios settings changes are generally needed. You can put > together a pretty powerful system for less by going that route. Places like > TigerDirect and NewEgg offer barebones kits that are a good starting point. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Williams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:45 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations > > > My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive > out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It > worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too. > > Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands > people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to > stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF > Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various > browsers and other tools. > > Dell? > Lenovo? > Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? > Acer? > Gateway? > Others? > > Thanks, > > -Matt > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
