Hi, Those that want reliable computers - and minimal warranty claims - the one and only pc I assembled without strap (working at home and they were all else were) had problems six months down the track when the on sound failed (got lazy and fitted sound card) then an other 9 months later the network port.
I have been putting together and upgrading computers since the apple II and apple II clones - it is esential for reliablity. Maurice -----Original Message----- From: Christopher D Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 3 August 2007 3:51 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Advice on building PC? Does anybody actually use anti static wrist straps? CM> Entrepreneur Pieroth Wine Executive XBox 360 freak! www.myspace.com/agent_mcgee -----Original Message----- From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Sent: 8/3/07 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Advice on building PC? On 8/2/07, Gauland, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My fifteen-year-old son's running Ubuntu on a old eMac, and would like > to switch to an x86 machine. He wants to "roll his own", rather than > purchase a ready-built machine. This isn't something I've ever done, > so I'm looking for advice on going about this. IMHO, others may disagree, The best bang-for-buck is probably found by buying an ~3 year old ex-lease machine, and then adding a bigger disk, should that be desired. Sorry, but while the 'buy a kit of parts' has educational value, it's not necessarily more economical. If you go the assemble yourself route, remember that the value of an anti-static wrist strap exceeds its price by at lease two orders of magnitude. > Should he buy a second-hand machine to start with, so he test each > component as he upgrades it? > What does he need to consider to be sure he can upgrade everything > easily? It depends on the budget more than anything, can you mention a vague figure? Just don't buy a totally non-mainstream machine. Asus make good motherboards which run Linux well, as do many other manufacturers. The "You get what you pay for" rule applies. nVidea video cards go better under Linux than ATI ones.
