Entry 34911 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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2025/07/08 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular

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2004/11/15-16 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:34911 Activity:high

11/15   What's a good place to buy a custom computer online?  I'm looking for
        a high degree of configurability and a sane price.  Dell is too
        limiting, and Falcon Northwest is $$$.
        \_ how is Dell limiting your configurability options?
           \_ No ability to pick a motherboard, few AMD options, no choice of
              component brands, few chances to get a 10kRPM drive, etc, etc...
        \_ Thunderbox
           \_ It seems they all look like rice-rockets.
              I guess what I'm looking for is "If Newegg sold systems..."
              \_ Company run by a white guy. Maybe he just has an Asian fetish
                 \_ I don't mean rice-rocket in the sense of souped-up asian
                    cars, but in the sense of computers built to *look* fast.
        \_ How about Monarch?  Dunno anything about their quality, though,
           but their prices do look reasonable and they're very flexible
           on the configs.
           \_ I like http://sysbuilder.com and I've bought two computers through them now.
           \_ Nice.  Thanks.  How's their customer service? -op
              \_ From what people have told me they can be slow to
                 respond (they seem to be a pretty small operation), but
                 they will get around to you.
        \_ I haven't tried them, but http://armsystems.com has quite the range
           of configurability. They specialize in low-noise boxes.

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