[plug] [OT] pc builting confusion

Ryan Smith ryan at westnet.net.au
Wed Mar 23 11:36:02 WST 2005


On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:17:22AM +0800, Ben Jensz wrote:
| VIA boards really aren't much cheaper than the Nforce boards for 
| something equivalently spec'ed, and the VIA boards have significantly 
| more issues.  I've come across all sorts of issues with VIA boards in 
| the past... conflicts with various cards, serious problems with IDE 
| performance and IDE data corruption (!), general reliability and 
| stability issues etc.
havent really noticed those sort of things. But then it could explain
why somethimes I get corrupted cds.

| If your friend wants to get his computer to last anywhere near 10 years 
| (very doubtful you'll get near that), he needs to buy decent hardware to 
| begin with.  Its as simple as that.  If your friend wants to build a 
| computer on the cheap and have it last for a long time, you really need 
| to tell him it isn't going to happen.  Cheap and last a long time, very 
| rarely appear in the same sentence.
Those are words that he really needs to hear but probably wont listen
to. 

cheers for you help
Ryan



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