Re: [PLUG] no frills computer advise

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Bill East <wm.east@gmail.com> wrote:

I've had good experiences with Newegg hardware, but the main reason I go back to them is stories like this one:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/

They are not willing to give in to patent trolls and go to court when they could settle for much less.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Keith Brown <keith6014@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, i had experience where the CPU would get very hot and shutdown the PC and I had to return the CPU and costed me a lot of shipping. This was over a decade ago; I hope things have gotten better.

Are there Motherboard/CPU combos? I can get my own case and powersupply. I suppose newEgg is the goto site?

I am antiquated with PCs. My current PC is 6+ years old so I though of upgrading.

Greg,Rich and Mike gave me courage!

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:

Seating a processor and applying thermal paste is not that bad. I have an old dell that I've upgraded the hell out of. It had a single core 2 ghz amd64 processor when I got it. I wanted a dual core a few years ago so I bought a 3ghz AMD64 x2 and put it in it. Applying the thermal paste and seating the processor was pretty straightforward, but in hindsight I wish I had applied more thermal paste because it does run a little hot. Sometimes when playing games (steam for linux) the fan goes kinda crazy.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com> wrote:

Fan of building myself, but if you want a boxed solution, check out at the very least

https://www.system76.com/desktops

Some people like ZaReason, too.

On Feb 28, 2014 8:36 PM, "Keith Brown" <keith6014@gmail.com> wrote:

hmm, i am thinking of building a PC now :p

I am worried about applying thermal paste and such therefore are there kits with CPU/Motherboard already in tact?

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:

To follow up on what Rich wrote, I just built a pretty decent PC from a combo ordered from Newegg.com:
Asus motherboard
AMD A10-5800K CPU (this is actually what they call an "APU", it has the graphics hardware (Radeon) added to the CPU chip)
8 GB RAM
1 TB Seagate HDD
Plextor DVDRW
Rosewill (the Newegg house brand) minitower case with 500W power supply

All for $432

The motherboard is very flexible, including USB 3, a slot for a graphics card in case you want to upgrade, a couple of other slots, and the BIOS allows overclocking.

It was really not hard to assemble at all. I don't feel I could have gotten the quality and choice of components for anywhere near that price buying prebuilt.

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