Who builds their own PC's rather than buy OEM?

[Athlon4all]

I buuild my own, what about the rest of ya?

 

[RufusAtticus]

I build my own.

My top system is called "Lenora" because she roars.

Athlon 1600+
Abit kr7-raid
0.5 GB of corsair 150 DDR
Alpha PAL8045 heatsink
2 IBM 60 GB HDD in a striping raid array
ATI Radeon 64 DDR vivo
Creative Live! X-Gamer 5.1
3.5 FDD
Zip 250 internal
Pioneer 40x slot DVD
Plextor PlexWriter 24/12/40 CD-RW
Four huge fans!
Lite-On FS020 case

Windows XP pro sp1
RedHat Linux on a VMWare virtual machine

 

[seebs]

I not only build my own, I sell computers. It's weird, we've sold probably no more than 20 computers, ever, and we've sold most of them to universities, NASA, and other "big" organizations. It's sorta cool. (Downside, we have an educational discount, so we don't make much money on it.)

'sfun.

 

[foolsparade]

I want to build my own, but I keep getting "hand me downs" from a relative.

 

[paulewog]

Build my own, never bought a computer already built in fact.....

 

[Athlon4all]

I want to build my own, but I keep getting "hand me downs" from a relative.

Well, you are blessed that you don't need to buy at all

 

[LewisWildermuth]

I build my own systems and others for friends, I also build systems out of salvaged parts and give them away to families that could not afford a computer any other way.

 

[Annabel Lee]

What language is everyone speaking?
I buy it from the computer store, bring it home, get someone who knows what they're doing to hook it up for me.
And then I cross my fingers and thank the little magic elves who live inside my computer.

 

[paulewog]

Yeah, and for some reason, I'm often that elf person when someone at church needs a magic computer elf....

 

[ifriit]

I've been building my own systems for years now. Don't feel like bragging with specs, so I'll just leave it at "two overpowered gaming boxes."

 

[Hank]

No. Too stupid 

The only thing I did is put better video cards in to play my games or add more Ram, but to build the hole thing from scratch. Nope!

 

[Athlon4all]

The only thing I did is put better video cards in to play my games or add more Ram, but to build the hole thing from scratch. Nope!

Ah the one thing that OEM's sacrifice far too often, video cards. They should be equiping their $1200 or so PC's with 1.8-2.0A P4's and GF4 Ti 4200/4400 cards not 2.53 P4's and GF4MX's.

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah, and for some reason, I'm often that elf person when someone at church needs a magic computer elf....

Yea, thats a ministry that I do (and like to do it);D

 

[paulewog]

I don't mind it, it's kinda fun. Only, sometimes, I wish they'd let me work on it, and not want a play by play commentary on what I'm doing. 'specially since half the time I don't know, I'm just fiddling and looking for things wrong, following rabbit trails

/me dreams about "overpowered gaming machines"

 

[Hojo Hominygrits]

I build my own. I'd never buy a pre-made system unless is was from Falcon Northwest or Alienware.

 

[ferment8]

Mine is originally bought pre-made system. But that was 6 years ago.
My uncle upgraded it for me with other parts, and recently, I have added some RAM, changed the video card (bought a second had TNT2 M64 off my friend), and a new sound card.

I really don't know how to build a system though.. >< gotta learn it someday! hehe

 

[Patty]

I build my own.
I built an Athlon 1,400+ghz on an Epox board and added Nvidia AGP running a Samsung SynchMaster monitor. I went with a sound card because, first, I had it, and second, I like my speakers. But the on-board sound jacks are for power speakers. My speakers don't have the power switch. I took them from my old Sony stereo.

A couple years ago, I bought a bunch of used towers - nearly complete - for $20.00 each. I took them apart and mix and matched to come up with 4 nice pentium systems. Can't beat $100.00 bucks for that many systems!

I eventually upgraded some of the equipment on a couple of the mix-n-matchers.


Patty

 

[lithium.]

i build all of my computers i have a total of&nbsp;4 right now.

1. Amd Athlon 2200+ (overclocked)&nbsp;512megs of ddr ram. Geforce 4 ti 4600 agp gfx card, water cooled heatsink, 17inch montior.&nbsp; Windows Xp (this is my gaming computer)

2. p3 700mhz, 256megs of sdram, voodoo3 3000. no monitor, the os is FreeBSD (this is my unix server) uptime is (6:54AM&nbsp; up 137 days,&nbsp; 6:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.12, 0.15)

3. p3 667mhz 256megs of sdram, geforce 4 mx 440, 15 inch montior, windows 2000. (just a computer i use for whatever)

4. p3 1ghz, 512 megs of ddr ram, geforce 3 mx, 15 inch montior, windows 2000 (another gaming computer)

Plus i am going to turn my xbox into a linux box hehe i am a geek haha.

 

[AnnMercy2]

How in the world do you "build" a computer. Do you mean getting parts of a old computer and putting it together to get something totally different?

Anna

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by AnnMercy2
How in the world do you "build" a computer. Do you mean getting parts of a old computer and putting it together to get something totally different?

Anna

you could do that, but i buy all new stuff most of the stuff i buy is from the internet, www.pricewatch.com is a place that tells you where you can buy stuff for the cheapest price.