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A few reasons why you should build your computer.

My first computer fried twice right after finaly assembly. The third time, I had another firm build it for me. It would overheat on FSX and crash after 2 min's of flying.

My room/office smelled like burned wires for weeks, lololol...

For those that have never built a computer, be careful. These parts are expensive. Know what you are doing...

Just a word of warning. Not being scinical or anything. :d


Bill
 
The units I build are more powerful than the store-bought counterparts! I have access to which parts perform best from TechCorp testing so I know which parts work better as a whole to create the kind of power I need!
Ted

BTW great article Mike!
 
I use to all ways build my own, but 1.5 years ago you all bought me a new computer from a california company .
May I say they gave me specs cheeper than I could build the same computer. I am still very happy.

In 1.5 years I had 1 fan lol break off a fin which they replaced, I did upgrade the OS to windows 7 ult 64
 
Built my computer 6 years ago this coming January for less than half of what it would have cost from a retail store or special order. If I can do it and it runs the first time the power button is pushed, anyone can.

At least with one you build yourself it's not proprietary and can be upgraded, no bloat ware in it, and it's what you want not what they want to sell you. And best of all you can run the OS you want, not what's decreed by the manufacturer so you will get what they decide you will have.

It's too bad you can't build your own laptop pc the way you want from scratch. I'm only saying that as I've never heard of anyone building their own laptop.
 
GT182 said:
It's too bad you can't build your own laptop pc the way you want from scratch. I'm only saying that as I've never heard of anyone building their own laptop.
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Yep...there are laptop kits available too. Many OEM laptop can be upgraded too ie. CPU,RAM,HDD,GFX cards,wireless cards etc.
 
The system I'm typing this on is around 8 months old and runs better than I expected.
Built on a budget of A$2000.00 (for the box) I can even get decent FPS numbers out of FSX!!!

However (and there's always a "however") the lure of building better and faster has bitten and the release of the new WD Raptor 600G x 10,000 rpm drives (at an affordable price), price drops on 'hot and high' cards as well as Mobos with everything, allied to the sheer sexiness of the 'Porsche' designed box and my next project is already off the ground.
And of course, the reliability and size of newer generation SSD drives is icing on the cake.
:jump:
I admit to being a rev-head, be it bikes, cars or computers........:173go1:
 
I have built all but one of the 5 computers(Modern) i've owned..
Infact one of them hss been in use for 9 years now, a AMD 750 meg,cpu
a friend got it 6 years ago and has been using it ever since..

The one computer i didn't build only lasted about 5 years..

I have found for me, that building my own lets me spend what I can affort and still get a machine I can depend on, and not break the bank..
I can recommend that a person with the skills, do Build your own..:applause:
 
Yepper...best thing I ever did...Ickie also stepped into the liquid cooling too. Everytime I get ready to do a new build Linda stops talking to me...lol. Dats one way to get her quite :monkies: ....mooooooo!
MaddogK said:
Hey Moe: you still running that liquid cooling system in your PC ??

:gameoff:
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Here's a thought Mike, I never let Sophie know what I'm building, it just goes under the all encompassing heading of the "Maintenance Program"!
Of course, she really knows EXACTLY what I'm up to but never gives me the silent treatment, I still get to suffer!
Can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em.
:ernae:
 
LOL...Linda doesn't really say to much. It blows her mind when I pay fifteen hundred for this little piece of metal called a processor.
wombat666 said:
Here's a thought Mike, I never let Sophie know what I'm building, it just goes under the all encompassing heading of the "Maintenance Program"!
Of course, she really knows EXACTLY what I'm up to but never gives me the silent treatment, I still get to suffer!
Can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em.
:ernae:
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Well this old fart (is it only the 'mature' guys that build their own?) is on his fourth homebuild - water-cooled, and so far (touching wood) the only problem has been a component failure.

Mind you, that was a CPU cooling block that gave my 8800GTX a shower. Ouch.

Currently wrestling with the problem that Zalman cooling fluid eventually crystallizes, causing, er, blockages.
 
lefty said:
Well this old fart (is it only the 'mature' guys that build their own?) is on his fourth homebuild - water-cooled, and so far (touching wood) the only problem has been a component failure.

Mind you, that was a CPU cooling block that gave my 8800GTX a shower. Ouch.

Currently wrestling with the problem that Zalman cooling fluid eventually crystallizes, causing, er, blockages.
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That would be 'Computer Constipation' in Olde Phart speak........:ernae:
 
I used to have the time and money to tinker when I was a student and I always used to build my own. Watercooling, (both open and closed systems), bong cooling, phase change cooling, I tried it all.

I don't have the time nor the inclination these days, especially considering I work on my PC as my main job all day every day, and components are so cheap these days that the gains offered by watercooling and suchlike are negligible compared to the downsides.

I just want something that works, customised to my spec, with a huge warranty so if it goes pop I don't have to waste my valuable time fixing it, I can just work on one of the other PC's in the house until it's fixed.
 
water cooling, lol, hey moe took 1.5 years convincing me to do this, water and electricity don't mix, my dad always told me.
well after 1.5 years its still does a great job cooling my CPU and quiet too, every month i do have to blow out the radiator it gets full of dust, (damm lousy house keeper) lol but my air compressor at 100 psi does this real fast.
 
I don't know what you consider negligible Chris, but water cooling the i7960's at TechCorp dropped the temp from 51C to 39C at idle in a room that stays very warm because of the number of units in a small space-ambient temp inside the cases was 44C. These computers run 24hours a day. All are overclocked as well. These units are used to endurance test parts and software.
Ted
 
Ya'll talking about temps... I got some questions. My apartment is around 81° all the time. The humidity is at 45 to 50% all the time too.
When I get the temp off the little program that tells me what the processor temp is, it's always around 77°F. How can this be when the air in the apartment is 81°?
When running FSX it's around 98°F. Does this mean that there is a 4° error in the reporting program? How do you know exactly what the temp is?
 
txnetcop said:
I don't know what you consider negligible Chris, but water cooling the i7960's at TechCorp dropped the temp from 51C to 39C at idle in a room that stays very warm because of the number of units in a small space-ambient temp inside the cases was 44C. These computers run 24hours a day. All are overclocked as well. These units are used to endurance test parts and software.
Ted
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I consider negligible anything that doesn't really make much of a difference. For your average common or garden gamer or PC user there isn't any difference between running it at stock speed and overclocking it a bit.

Of course there will always be specialist and niche applications like yours that will benefit from overclocking but my personal opinion is that it isn't worthwhile for the average user these days if they are doing it for performance reasons alone.

Reliability and stability count for far more than squeezing every last megahertz out of a system.
 
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