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Originally Posted by Millay
ahh. if you are doing this for a business as I do, then get a trade account with a good pc retailer. or someone like ingram micro.
Building PC's for a living is not cost effective. spending a few hours putting PC's together is expensive and you will not be competitive if you want to make some serious money, and when things go wrong it really eats into your bottom line.
well thats how i worked it. my hourly rate is worth much morre than the time to build a PC leave it to people with bulk buying and build power
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Nah not for business, purely for myself - what I meant by doing it for a living is Im a computer contractors and have done 1st-3rd line support plus all osrts of other stuff. Meaning basically any problems (apart from a hardware failure) I can pretty much fix.
Reason for me looking at Dell was the theory that price of machine was XXX and as its refurb it should be cheaper in theory...The more I look online, the more confused as to what path to follow (self Build)....
So lets stick with the Athlon 64 - now two to choose from here, Socket 754 or 939...from my online checking up, 3400 64 (socket 754) is as good as 3500 new one but its a hell of a lot cheaper. You can still buy AGP gfx cards and from what i can see apart from SLI mode, they are roughly the same anyhow. Now Im sure somebody will say what about future upgrades? picking a older socket means im going to be limited but I must add that I dont go and buy the latest and greatest just cos it saves me 3 seconds on something when the prices is 3x more expnsive.
Of cousre if money was no object then a A-64 4000 with GeForce 6800 Ultra Pro Uber nutter card would be excellent - but them two alone would set uou back at least a grand before even thinking of the rest of the system.