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Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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How many of you build your own PCs or work on them?

 

I've been building performance PCs for years now and think it is the only way to go. So far this year I have built about 45 boxes for my day, shop, salespeople, shipping guys, etc. plus my own personal PCs at home.

 

I'd like to know who else in here is into their PC stuff way too deep like I am. We could probably create a whole 'nother section here.

 

I know Wingnut is a pretty sharp GEEK too but who else?

SoCalChris Enthusiast

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I'm a software developer. Yes, there are software companies out here in MT. Most of you have probably used our software at some point without realizing it. I write mainly C# & C, with a little bit of javascript & PHP. I've always built my own computers, I prefer to know exactly what components are in them.

omegafiler Senior Enthusiast

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I've built plenty of white-box puters over the years, but I primarily stick with OEM notebooks and desktops now (ie. Dell). Given how cheap they are and how I'm rather familiar with them, that's all I recommend! I rebuild and fix those things all the time... probably several hundred by now. :)

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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I'm a geek too...Building a Quad core in the new year.

 

Making the one I have now my new media center, as soon as blue ray wins the HD Disc war. I'll pop a blueray burner in there, and a HD TV out card, a 1TB drive and just use it for music and movies.

omegafiler Senior Enthusiast

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I'm a geek too...Building a Quad core in the new year.

 

Making the one I have now my new media center, as soon as blue ray wins the HD Disc war. I'll pop a blueray burner in there, and a HD TV out card, a 1TB drive and just use it for music and movies.

 

Yes, quad core is awesome. I can surf the net and check my e-mail faster than ever before!

 

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Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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I build my own, but generally stay away from doing it for others.

 

Plus, since I work on computers for a living, I don't like to work on them when I get home. The last full build I did was in '02, and I still use that PC. It's been upgraded a couple of times as things go bad (or my house is hit by lightning, blowing out half the components in it)...But now it's at a point to where there's not much I can do for ye' olde' Soyo KG7 Dragon Plus to make it any faster. Yeah, it's that old :)

 

So I'm casually looking for a new Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Power supply to upgrade it.

 

I'm in no hurry because most of the time when I surf at home, I just use my laptop...Which unfortunately, you really can't build.

 

My Klipsch 5.1's finally freakin died a couple of months ago too. Dammit. I don't want to spend THAT money again.

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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I build my own, but generally stay away from doing it for others.

I could not agree more. I work on a few for close friends and family but mostly I keep it business related (and then only when we have a major meltdown or build new PCs as an upgrade).

 

I knew I would draw you out... :)

 

Anybody else?

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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I build my own, but generally stay away from doing it for others.

I could not agree more. I work on a few for close friends and family but mostly I keep it business related (and then only when we have a major meltdown or build new PCs as an upgrade).

 

I knew I would draw you out... :)

 

Anybody else?

 

 

Not to hijack this thread with *haha* truck talk...But I just PS'd your rims on my SS...NICE. :)

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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I build my own, but generally stay away from doing it for others.

I could not agree more. I work on a few for close friends and family but mostly I keep it business related (and then only when we have a major meltdown or build new PCs as an upgrade).

I knew I would draw you out... :)

Anybody else?

 

 

Not to hijack this thread with *haha* truck talk...But I just PS'd your rims on my SS...NICE. :)

 

 

Where da pic???

 

 

*raises hand up from behind a Thermaltake tower...*

Anybody running liquid cooling?

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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*raises hand up from behind a Thermaltake tower...*

Anybody running liquid cooling?

 

 

Fred aint air cooled you know.

 

Hey... at LEAST I put it in "off topic" :)

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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Just being silly...Been up for 20 hours or so.

 

In other news, my PC may have finally died. It's been off for a week or so, and because of this thread, I went in there to fire up the terabyte monster itself (gotta keep all the porn somewhere, right?) and I'm just getting one long beep and it shuts back down. So I get to figure that out some time soon.

 

WTF? Is it "every expensive thing you own is going to break" week or something?

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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Just being silly...Been up for 20 hours or so.

 

In other news, my PC may have finally died. It's been off for a week or so, and because of this thread, I went in there to fire up the terabyte monster itself (gotta keep all the porn somewhere, right?) and I'm just getting one long beep and it shuts back down. So I get to figure that out some time soon.

 

WTF? Is it "every expensive thing you own is going to break" week or something?

You KNEW better than to plug that speaker wire into the 220... but you just had to go there. Now its Klipsch Krispies.

 

One long beep sounds like a memory fault. I can't remember Soyo's BIOS stuff anymore though.

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