On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 01:56:19PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > FWIW, the brand I have reliably stuck with has been Asus ... as in > motherboards.
Yeah I stick with Asus boards in my own desktop machines. Of course for home I would never buy a premade desktop. I want something good and I don't mind putting it together myself. I like doing that part usually (I have one machine that was actually a pain the ass to work on, but I doubt any store would have been willing to assemble that one either. Putting six 4TB drives, a bluray writer, a sabertooth X77 with core i7-3820 and 32GB ram in a home theatre PC case probably qualifies as nuts. It was very hard to get all the cables in the right place). > The last few desktops I have bought for myself have been from Canada > Computers; I research the individual components (case, CPU, mobo, video, > SSD, etc), and the store will assemble and test together the result for > what I consider a nominal fee. This path also makes it easy to buy a system > without an OS pre-loaded, so I'm not wasting money on a Windows license > I'll not be using; that can be difficult when looking at desktops bought > retail (ie, BestBuy or Costco). -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk