More PC Vendor Suggestions 2004-07-27 - By Matt Geier
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Dave,
You would be better off building your own. It would be
cheaper and you wouldn't really run into all the
propriatary problems you would have with a
manufacturer. It seems that everyone has their own
flavor for everything. You'll find that if you look on
ebay for all these things by themselves, would end up
being cheaper then buying off the market. I would say
that if you were using an application that was ported
to Irix, then buy and SGI if your looking for
performance. :) My company is the leader in high
performance systems, but you won't find SGI sitting on
the shelf at Wal-Mart :) ... Our old machines still
out perform PC's today.. and our top processor is a
MIPS 800 MHZ :) ... but anyhow, enough of that.
I would take the time to build my own, but you can do
whatever. My first PC was a home built one, at the
time it was top of the line, that was back in '97
though.
The processor, a couple hundred. I know the 1.5 GHZ
ran about 98 dollars last time I checked, and your
looking for a 3GHZ + ...
If your going with a GFX card and your looking at ATI
vs GEFORCE, they are both great cards. I have heard
that ATI is better visually, being a game player, I
also prefer ATI, however, I own a 128MB GeForce 5200
which seems to get the job done well. I think you will
find that GeForce and ATI are comparable on pricing.
The drive/s will run somewhere in the area of 75 - 250
bucks, the last time i checked, a high capacity drive
wasn't really on the cheap end.
If your not thinking of getting additional storage
space, I would recommend it. Working in the computer
industry, particularly in High Performance and Storage
for 7+ years, I can tell you that 9-10 times someone
didn't back up their stuff and likes to blame is one
anything other then themselves. My suggestion is
fairly cheap, go buy yourself a small storage unit,
something really small that has only storage drives.
You will find that it is much better to have back ups
then trying to re image your hard drive after it
crashes. Trust me, you will get more sleep. I had 180
GB worth of data for my web pages that crashed once,
and I didn't have a back up, needless to say, I didn't
sleep well for a good time after that.
You can go to http://www.pricewatch.com/ and look at
the going prices for everything you have listed here.
Anyhow, just my two cents....
--- Dave Angelini <dpangelini@(protected)> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> I have yet to hear very good things about Gateways.
> Among the very bad
> things are that they have a habit of customizing
> their components and/or
> drivers. As such it makes user-repairs very
> difficult. I am sure that all
> the other big vendors do this also (Dell, Hp), but I
> have heard that it is a
> bigger problem with Gateway.
>
> Also, I can get a 10% discount with Gateway through
> work (as well as Hp and
> Compaq), but I still find them more expensive than
> most for the mainstream
> PC market.
>
> In general, I am leaning towards Cyberpower, Dell,
> MPC, and Monarch
> Computer. If Cyberpower started to carry PC Express
> motherboards and 3.6
> GHz processors, they are by far the cheapest and
> would win the day.
>
> Alienware is a close second...mostly because they
> know how to build a fast
> system, but are still on high side as far as cost.
>
> If I had won the lottery, I would buy MachL (they
> come with their own
> refrigerator ;-). Boxx and Core are also just too
> expensive. If the
> exchange rates were more favorable, I would
> definitely look harder at NCIX.
>
> Hp, Sony, IKon, Compaq and Gateway failed to make
> the cut.
>
> Time will tell (the waiting is better than the
> having). In the meantime, I
> would like to shop at more PC vendors. Basically, I
> am looking for the
> following:
>
> 1) 3.6 or 3.4 Ghz Intel processor (HT technology and
> 1Mb cache)
> 2) PCI Express Motherboard
> 3) 2Gb Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x1Gb)
> 4) 256Mb PCI Express graphics card (either the ATI
> Radeon X800 XT or the
> nVidia GeForce Ultra 6800)
> 5) Somewhere between an 80 to 160 Gb Serial ATA Hard
> drive with at 7200 RPM
> and 8mb cache . Still debating whether to pay for
> another drive and
> mirroring the data. I had a hard-drive go once and
> it was a painful
> experience.
> 6) The usual extras (optical drives, NIC card, etc).
>
> The search continues. I hope to make a purchase
> decision before February
> 2005 (I am serious...the waiting is better than the
> having...and besides, I
> really need to save my pennies for this baby ;-).
>
> Dave Angelini
>
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Matt Geier" <matt_g_geier@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [TSML] More PC Vendor Suggestions
>
>
> > I don't see Gateway. Did you try there ?
>
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