PC builders

[MarkD]

Motherboards?

Video Cards?

RAM?

Hard drives?

CD/DVD?

Networking?

[GreenRado]

Motherboards?

Video Cards?

RAM?

Hard drives?

CD/DVD?

Networking?

We build a lot of PCs that have requirements beyond the std office clone, so I usually try to stick to the brand names - especially w/ PCI bus and bridge chipsets and video cards.  Also, particularly when we are putting 1-3 frame grabber PCI cards into the machine - takes a ridiculous amount of resources.  The BIOS I usually like is Phoenix or AMI - if you want a basic box with no surprises or one you don't plan to upgrade significantly, and have decent service/support, go Dell.

 

My 2 cents!!  

 

Motherboards?

Intel or ASUS for IBM clones

Video Cards?

nVidia or ATi (AGP)

RAM?

RDRAM or DDR - Crucial as mfr

Hard drives?

SCSI:  Seagate Barracuda

UIDE:  West Digital

CD/DVD?

Networking?

Home:  Netgear or Linksys

Work:  Asante

[MarkD]

Personally...

 

Motherboards?             MSI, Intel, ABit, ASUS    

Video Cards?               ATI

RAM?                         Crucial DDR

Hard drives?         IDE: IBM, Western Digital

                      SCSI: Seagate, IBM

CD/DVD?                     Lite-On

Networking?                3Com, Cisco, Netgear

 

 

And I forgot:

Cases                         Lian-Li

[Torque Junkie]

Motherboards: Abit or MSI

Video Cards: Anything Nvidia

RAM: Doesn't matter

Harddrives: IBM is the only thing I'll use

CD/DVD: I have mixed feelings on this. my LiteON 48X burner seems to be holding up great!

Networking: Linksys!!!

Case: Whatever looks good and has lots of fan-ports

 

-Mike

[SnakeEyeSS]

Video CArds: nVidia if you give a whoop about gaming experience. (wanna know why VooDoo is pretty much gone?? Cause nVidia proved that VooDoo stole thier desgins, in a sue lawsuit)

I have no experience with ATI, but my friend did, and he never stopped complaining the whole time he had it and I knew him(he was a big PC gamer)

 

Ram: dosen't really matter

 

Hard Drives:Western Digitial is VERY popular, not sure what I have though.....

 

 

CD/DVD: I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM, never any problems, its runs reg CD's so fast that they are hard to handle(HOT) if they've in in for a hour though

 

My new Samsung (2 days old as of this post), looks like a quality piece(looks flashy), and the included softare is simple and easy to use, gets the job done well. $50 rebate this week at COMPUSA, BTW Ends Sept 21st(my COMPUSA is doing it at least, they are sorely overstocked, they had around 40 in the ailes(sp) and shelves alone

[bowtie_pasta]

I just built a new home system and so far it's been really stable!

 

ECS Elitegroup Motherboard K7S5A

1.3Ghz AMD Duron Proc

40G Western Digital drive

 

Soon to get 512MB Mushkin DDR PC2100 RAM  

 

The motherboard and proc are dirt cheap and perform really well together, do some research and you'll be suprised.  I went into this project w/ budget in mind.

 

Also check out the prices from this place, I have got some good deals here.  Outpost

[GnatGoSplat]

Motherboard: I always use Abit mobos, but their capacitors are crap.  The caps in my SH6 blew up within a year.  On the plus side, their warranty and RMA procedure was relatively painless.

I've heard worse stories about more "reputable" companies like Aopen.

Soyo makes good mobos too, never had a problem with them.

Asus looks good, but overpriced IMO.

 

Video card: doesn't matter.  I like my old Voodoo3, I'm not a gamer.

RAM: doesn't matter, whatever is on sale (I'm running Kingston ValueRAM).

Hard Drive: Every HD I have is Maxtor, but just because they're always on sale for <$1/gig.  I've previously used IBM 75GXP, 60GXP, and 120GXP.  They were great drives, quieter than Maxtor fluid bearing drives and faster.  People say they're unreliable, I haven't experienced this.

CD/DVD: Panasonic for DVD, Plextor for CD-RW.

Networking: Whatever is on sale for $5 or less after rebate. I run D-Link and Linksys 100mbit cards.  For wireless, I'm running Lucent Orinoco Silver.

[MarkD]

My new Samsung (2 days old as of this post), looks like a quality piece(looks flashy), and the included softare is simple and easy to use, gets the job done well. $50 rebate this week at COMPUSA, BTW Ends Sept 21st(my COMPUSA is doing it at least, they are sorely overstocked, they had around 40 in the ailes(sp) and shelves alone

 

What product?  Monitor?