Building is generally cheaper, but shop around first. If prices start to get close to one another (bought vs. built), warranty coverage may sway your decision to just buy already built.
I rebuild/replace our home systems every 3-4 years and usually go the Newegg route. My friend is a hardware geek, always on top of the latest and greatest that's available. Most times I buy one step below the top CPU and MB, for example. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv [email protected] Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-293-4499 www.fiserv.com -----Original Message----- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT New home PC I would build it, but if you are averse to that, I know people who have purchased from here: http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ Jim McAtee wrote: > I agree with the others. Build it. Do some (or a lot of) research on > components, buy them from Newegg or Amazon (Amazon's return policies > can't be beat), and assemble it. I also agree with the SSD > recommendation for the OS and applications. You don't need anything > very large - 80 or 120 GB will be more than enough. > > Is this system also going to be used as an HTPC? If you just want to > watch movies and TV in your office then noise may not be a huge > factor, but if it's going to be in your living room then I'd spend a > lot of effort making the system as quiet as possible. Large diameter, > low RPM fans, aftermarket CPU heatsink, passive cooling wherever > possible, maybe reconsider the 7200 RPM drive for a cooler, quieter > 5400 RPM drive. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Stefan Jafs > To: NT System Admin Issues > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:31 PM > Subject: OT New home PC > > > Ok, it's finally time to upgrade my aging home PC. I figured I could > just go > to Tigerdirect or BestBuy and pick up a good performing system but it > does > not seem like the case, if I want low to medium performance no problem > but I > want: > > Intel I7, 8Gb RAM DDR3, HD 1 - 2Tb 7,200 rpm, AMD HD 5670 or better, > BlueRay > player, TV Tuner in a PCI x16 slot. Windows 7 64 bit Home. Is that too > much > to ask for? I did not think so but does now one else purchase high > performance PCs? > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
