>> ...except issues with the local forna having access to it? o_O
> 
> In most cases the local fauna had enough brain-power to not crawl 
> underneath the desk and stick a finger into a fan :-)

http://www.insectimage.com/Gallery%2017/snakecomp2.html

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Invisible wrote:

> http://www.insectimage.com/Gallery%2017/snakecomp2.html

Good one :)

"Uh, yeah ... my computer made some really odd hissing sound when I 
turned it on .."

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~Mike

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Invisible wrote:
> I think a case is one of those things you have to actually pick up and 
> look at in the shop. From a website you can't tell what the hell you're 
> getting. *sigh*

Yes. I always get funny looks from the people at the local electronics 
warehouse stores when I go to buy a prebuilt system and I ask them to open 
several up so I can look inside.

Unfortunately, in same local stores, it's too loud to easily hear how loud 
the individual machine is, but I seem to have done pretty well there by 
buying machines targetted for home stereo use.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

> Yes. I always get funny looks from the people at the local electronics
> warehouse stores when I go to buy a prebuilt system and I ask them to open
> several up so I can look inside.

I only ever had one prebuilt system and that was in '94.
After that I always bought individual parts or had the system built to spec, so
I know what exactly is in there.
Also it's sorta fun to built your own PC.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Yes. I always get funny looks from the people at the local electronics 
> warehouse stores when I go to buy a prebuilt system and I ask them to open 
> several up so I can look inside.

  I have linked this before, but I can't resist:

http://megatokyo.com/strip/650

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                                                          - Warp

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Aydan wrote:
> 
> I only ever had one prebuilt system and that was in '94.
> After that I always bought individual parts or had the system built to spec, so
> I know what exactly is in there.
> Also it's sorta fun to built your own PC.
> 

My only pre-built PC-system is this laptop I'm currently using. There's
a certain reason why it's pre-built ;).

Also all the weird stuff is naturally pre-built - Compaq Alphaserver,
Sun computers, SGI...

-Aero

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Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> My only pre-built PC-system is this laptop I'm currently using. There's
> a certain reason why it's pre-built ;).

  Btw, does it count as "pre-built" if the shop builds the PC according
to the customer's specification? In other words, rather than buying an
existing PC from the shelf, the customer buys a set of components and the
shop builds the PC from them afterwards.

  If that doesn't count as pre-built, then I suppose I have never bought
a pre-built system.

  I have never actually just bought the parts and built the system myself,
though. However, I have transferred all the stuff from inside one PC case
to another, and I have built a PC from parts of two existing ones.

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                                                          - Warp

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Aydan wrote:
> I only ever had one prebuilt system and that was in '94.
> After that I always bought individual parts or had the system built to spec, so
> I know what exactly is in there.
> Also it's sorta fun to built your own PC.

I did that until I had to start trying to figure out which of the dozens of 
types of RAM went with which of the dozens of types of CPUs and motherboards 
and etc. :-)  Right around when they started coming up with AGP and such, I 
think.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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Warp wrote:
>   If that doesn't count as pre-built, then I suppose I have never bought
> a pre-built system.

*I* wouldn't count it as pre-built unless it's mass produced and comes with 
an OEM warranty. :-)  Most of my custom-built machines I had a friend build 
for me who does (or at least did) that sort of thing for a living.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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Darren New wrote:

> 
> I did that until I had to start trying to figure out which of the dozens 
> of types of RAM went with which of the dozens of types of CPUs and 
> motherboards and etc. :-)  Right around when they started coming up with 
> AGP and such, I think.
> 

Yeah, and get the wrong combo and watch your performance go into the 
toilet....


-- 
~Mike

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