On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:53:08AM +0100, mike wilson scripsit: [snip] > Asking around, it seems that these sort of faults are quite common in > self build projects so it makes me think that the big box creators are > getting the 100% good stuff and all the rest goes to the retail parts > companies,
The big box creators -- Dell, HP, etc. -- get custom parts intensely optimized for margin. At the consumer PC level, it's definitely *NOT* the good stuff. You need to buy self build parts either from some place that has high sustained volume ( = they don't screw up their parts handling much) or which charges a bit more and does lots of custom build work for picky customers like architects and photographers ( = they're building their business on a quality reputation, not low cost). If you don't do that, generally what you've got is a part that's been handled roughly, and that leads to the sort of cracked trace problem that gives undiagnosable (without upwards of a quarter million dollars in scopes, anyway) intermittent faults. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
