Do you buy or build your PC?
 

I've NEVER bought a computer. Always built mine since my first 386 when I was a kid. Bout to build my new machine now. Pentium 4 - 2.5GHz (533Mhz bus) with about 1.5GB of PC2100 ram. And a 120GB 7200rpm HD.

What do Mac users do in situations like this? I've never used a Mac (and never plan to) but I can't imagine a computer where the monitor is built into a swivel connected to your computer and not being able to build a system EXACTLY like I want it. I need control!

get a dell or build it your self :) :rasta

Build!!! Always BUILD!

built mine :)

i buy

build!

Why do you guys need all this speed and bullshit Is it for playing games ?

BUY!! I have enough of hard time installing memory, let alone build the damn thing :1orglaugh

BUILD! I have had the same basic PC since 99 i believe and I just upgrade everything inside...I dont know what I will do about my laptop though...

I don't play PC games personally, but I do lots of intensive Photoshop work and some video editing. Plus I like to have lots of things going on at once (dowloading things, burning CDs, etc) going on at the same time. And it doesn't matter what you do on a computer, I've found having more memory is always better.

Desktop = build have had the same base pc for 1.5 years ....

laptops = buy dont bother to upgrade new screens, battery, wireless, firewire ..... upgrading will end up costing you more

Uhh... do you work with graphics and videos all day?

But yeh, most webmasters are heavy gaming.

i bought, then i built, then i decided to not buy again :thumbsup

BUild...find a brand name computer you like...look at the components then go to pricewatch and find the components. You save money and learn in the process.

Ya - self built - only problem is I can't really upgrade any further with this motherboard, so my next one is from the ground up which means a large outlay :(

Speed is good, speed is nice - I hate clicking and waiting for a program to load and then find everything else I'm running works like its in treacle.

I have a Dual 800 Dell with 64bit board scsi raid with 3 x 17 gig drives Matrox graphics card and SB card - connected to a P450 box running Red Hat and Apache server. For me its a perfect setup.


I guess video editing and heavy graphics work requires more power. My motto is leave well alone if its doing the job.

I buy one.

BUILD! for me is very important to choose the components i want, so buying a brand computer sucks.

Build!!!!!!! This computer I am on is not even a week old yet.. I already went over the specs in another post.

I do have to re-iterate though: Once you go SCSI, you don't return :)

I have a comp with a ide hd ddr athalon, do I just need a control to install a scsi hd.

always build.

It's for building galleries :1orglaugh

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Why not though :)

if your gunna build i highly recommend an IDE raid setup....you won't believe the speed.

Build

You can custom order your Mac tower with the components you want...not all Macs are "smivel monitor" based.....

Mac's rock for music

build it. much better quality.

dell's on my shitlist since they didn't give me the warranty i paid for. convenient how my account info isn't on their pc's.

Yes...

The first computer I built was an XT 8086 or 8886 processior I forget.. Did not have a harddrive. Added one 2 weeks later. A big fucker.... 10 megs.. Upgraded it a month laler to 20 Meg drive. Oh I did have 640k memory.. I've builted a shit pot of computers, have no ideal how many... sometimes I would buy them for customers and sometimes I would build them...

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Isn't this supposed to be a poll or something? :(

To install any SCSI devices, you need a SCSI card -- the best kinds are made by Adaptec.

I build mine, so I get what I want.

The bonus for me is that any components under $1k i can deduct straight away, anything over that has to be deducted over 3 years.

build

build build build

build, i always build my computers. I began with an 268 and now I have an Duron 900. That were 10 years of work and still have the same monitor and the same floppy :thumbsup

I build judiciously. Buying is nice if you know you're getting a system that will work outright for anything you use it for, but with all the stupid OEM shit that's pretty much never true.

So first off I think about which OSes I might run on it, since I hate having to monkey with "what if" linux drivers that are still in beta, kernel reconfigurations and recompiliations, etc. If you like having to do that stuff, you're fucking perverse. So I pick hardware carefully, using recommended components. tomshardware.com is one good place to start if you're pondering building a machine.

I buy them off the shelf, cause I break the fuck out of them. lol