My shopping is based on the warranty and quality. Antec cases and power supplies-some have 3 year warranties, lower quality have 1year warranty. AMD-get a processor that is boxed with heat sink and fan, they have a 3 year warranty. ASUS motherboards have 3 year warranties, most other brands have 1, a few have 2 both ATI and NVIDIA video cards have 1 year warranties
Kaleb, you'll love this advise, you just need to sit there on your lazy butt and comparison shop. Use Google, Tigerdirect, Newegg, and Zipzoomfly (my personal favorite for price/shipping/customer service), and others you feel comfortable doing business with. Just browse, read reviews, and make your decision that way. My recent upgrade was: Asus M2N-E SLI MoBo (3 yr warranty) Corsair TWIN 2GB memory (lifetime warranty) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core running at 2.0Ghz (3 yr warranty) That cost me about $260 shipped. I already had: 80GB Western Digital SATA hd (5 yr warranty) HP DVD+/-RW (out of warranty) Antec Case/power supply (out of warranty) monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc (out of warranty) I still need to upgrade my video card. I'm watching eBay for a NVIDIA SLI 8500xxx PCI-E card with 512MB ram. Might even add a widescreen LCD to that.... Luther, all about warranty -- Luther KB5QHU Alma, Ark '87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case '85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) BioBeast '82 300CD (176 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine-sold '85 300D (280,176) parts car sans engine Quoting "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Been looking into the computer upgrade thing. As I posted before, I > always custom ordered what I wanted as far as processor, memory etc then > just transfer my other hardware over. Im getting a big headache trying > to figure out what processor is what, what memory is what etc. Ran thru > a few options and it seems its as expensive if not more than what is on > sale at best buy or whatever. So would it seem I am better off just > buying whatever is on sale that fits my needs? Any certain brands to > look for? Do they sell them at the store that do not have a bunch of > crap preloaded on there? I hate buying those computers that already > have half their space used up by preloaded crap I will never use. > Another aspect I like of not buying the store computers is the fact that > the cases etc are not always standard. With the custom ordered > barebones deals, you can swap whatever you want at any point. Power > supplies are standard, drive bays, etc. Stuff like that. Anyway, > enough rambling, thoughts? Most of these store bought systems come with > Vista now. Is that a good thing or should I just look on ebay and buy > something there that may or may not have an OS installed? > -- > Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK > 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300D, 92 250D Turbo, 92 300E 4Matic, > 91 300D, 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, > 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 81 380SLC, 80 240D, 76 240D, > 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250 > http://www.okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
