First Home-Built PC

[RobV]

But does he need it?



Biostar is one of the best brands there is, in terms of build quality.
Biostar is certainly better than Asus/Asrock/Gigabyte (all same
company) though I know that a lot of people will disagree with me on
that issue. Basically, Asus(asrock/gigabyte) is the most over-hyped
brand there is. Asus is Mediocre quality, poor support, rave reviews
from lots of so-called experts who should KNOW better. Meanwhile,
Biostar is this lesser known brand that builds much better quality
mainboards and amazingly, manages to price them very competitively.
Biostar is probably the best-kept secret in mainboards.


And watch it explode shortly after you start it the first time.
FIFTEEN bucks? Shit, I wouldn't power a calculator with that puppy.

Just wanted to jump in here and impress upon the builder that Dave is
100% correct here. The PSU is really the most important component in
any computer system. If you have to skimp elsewhere to get a good
quality PSU, do so, as a cheap PSU can cause lots of problems, not the
least of which is the chance of damaging other components in the
computer when it fails spectacularly, as they usually do.

 

[Paul]

That's a matter of personal opinion. Vista seems to need LESS RAM than
XP... so if it's a memory hog, at least it is an improvement over previous
versions of windows. -Dave

You'd have to work at Microsoft, to think like that

Just read the experiences of people who were sold computers with
insufficient RAM to run Vista properly. The computer behaved
like a slug, and the owners hated it. With the price of DDR2 memory
so low (saw 4GB for $70 the other day), there is no reason to be
pissing around with small quantities of memory.

Paul

 

[Dave]

You'd have to work at Microsoft, to think like that

Just read the experiences of people who were sold computers with
insufficient RAM to run Vista properly.

How is that different from the experiences of people who were sold computers
with insufficient ram to run XP properly? -Dave