----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [H] dell PSU ?
I suppose you could get a larger PS & bolt it to the top of that nice Dell case but your best bet is to get a standard case & PS then rebuild the whole thing praying that the Dell mombo lines up with the mountings in the new case.
It has been my standard procedure since I have been in business to move name brand computers to a new case to provide a new power supply. If the customer loves their crappy case so much they have a problem with a decent case, I send them to another shop. My price? The same as others charge to put the same low wattage power supply in the original case. You may say I throw in the case for free, but charge for a power supply and labor. My standard is 450 watts for a P4. The customer gets 5 fans in the case compared to 1 or none in their original case.
Seldom do we see follow up advice for situations like these. True, the customer needs an innovative work around for proprietary junk they currently own (in this situation a move to a decent case.) What they really need is very strong advice to buy a real (generic all the way!) computer next time.
Chuck
