I've been building / maintaining my own PCs for years. Buy a good
quality mobo and you won't have problems with caps. Heck, the only
problems you'll have is with the OS getting crappy if you load up too
much random software.
maccrawj wrote:
All the more reason to roll your own. A big case like Armor with
proper cooling and a PSU that's not maxed out will last longer than
any pre-made system. Not to mention with 6~8 years there's a lot of
part swapping that can happen on a custom that can't be done with a
Dell. If you were trying to spend $400-500 w/ no long term requirement
I'd be silent on this topic but that's not what you've targeted.
As to some major Taiwanese part vendor dying vs. Costco/Dell/Lenovo is
just magic 8-ball forecasting not a valid comparison IMHO. When it
comes to "supporting it", OK, but vendor support comes at a cost &
tends to be overrated lacking in real help.
nobozoz wrote:
But if I build it myself, I have to maintain it myself. With the
economy tanked, I'm more confident that Dell/Costco will be around in
12 months than I am that Mwave, Newegg, ASUS, Acer will be around. I
may soon be living on a fixed income and only expect to upgrade every
6~8 years when that comes to pass. As it is, I'm still running WIN2K
on Abit BH6's (ca Spring 2000). Every mobo I bought after that died
prematurely from cheapie Taiwanese caps which seem to have found
their way back into the supply chain lately (re: FORCE5 recently).
Lenovo might be a possibility because I doubt the Chinese gov't. will
allow them to fail. Can anyone vouch for Lenovo's desktop reliability
and user serviceability in a meaningful way? I'd love to hear it.
Jim
maccrawj wrote:
You got $1200 to spend the are better building a system from scratch!
