John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:15:36AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>Since it's been about 3 years since I bought a new motherboard I'm not >>up to speed on the latest computer tech (and 6 months is about enough >>to get lost these days). >>I'm considering one of the AMD Athlon 64 x2 (dual-core) CPU's, probably >>the 3500+ or 3800+, and would appreciate any recommendations for >>motherboards, etc. > > > Nowadays I don't think it's worthwhile putting your own system > together unless you want something really out of the mainstream. > Just let HP (or Dell, or ...) build it for you; it comes with > a warranty, and might even be cheaper than the cost of all the > individual components (especially if you want a copy of Windows). > >
Meh, I like the control of components when I build my own systems. Plus I re-use parts from the old system like cd/dvd drives and sometimes memory and hard drives. I bought the latest flight simulator and found it didn't work well (ok pretty much not at all) on my previous system, so for ~US$500 I was able to get a new board, CPU, 2 more GB RAM and a video card that in a "factory" system would have cost well over $1000. -- Christian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
