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Building a new desktop for college...

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arover

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So, heading off to college, after much contemplation, I decided to bring a desktop with me. I'm going to miss home enough, why not bring a little something to help me not miss it so much..

Anyways, since the specs are going to be pretty decent, I know I'm definetly going to need some physical security solutions, with which I have zero experience at all dealing with. I'm looking at getting a Lian-Li case, and wondering if anyone has had any experience with specific desktop locks, or any other sort of reccomendations for locking up the case door (so none may open and steal the hardware inside) as well as just the case itsself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

fyi, the specs are going to be something like the Q6600 Quad Core (after the price drop) 8800gts, 2gb ddr2 800, etc....If anyone has any advice to give with what mobo/ram/hardware in general is good to go with these days, it'd be greatly appreciated. For the mobo I was thinking of going with the MSI P6N SLI Platinum NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI. I havn't built a new pc for myself in about 4 years, so I'm greatly looking forward to this one.
 
Where are you going to school? Theft of desktops was never a big problem at Purdue. There may have been a few incidents of ipods and stuff missing...but no desktops getting up and walking away. I would recommend just locking your room when you leave rather than worrying about a security solution that is fairly easy to defeat. If you were getting a laptop then that is where you should lock it down IMO.

I had a desktop all four years and nothing happened to it whatsoever.
 
I'm going to University of California, Santa Cruz. As far as I know, it holds no real reputation for theft either, but a dorm is a dorm. There will be mischeif wherever you are. I was just looking for any sort of solution to deter theft at the least; not looking for anything major. I'm not too worried about it, not many people there are exactly into the whole computer scene...It's a very outdoors-type school. I still can't live without a pc, though =)
 
Originally posted by: arover
I'm going to University of California, Santa Cruz. As far as I know, it holds no real reputation for theft either, but a dorm is a dorm. There will be mischeif wherever you are. I was just looking for any sort of solution to deter theft at the least; not looking for anything major. I'm not too worried about it, not many people there are exactly into the whole computer scene...It's a very outdoors-type school. I still can't live without a pc, though =)
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Maybe just get a case with a locking door/alarm?
 
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Also looking into getting a desktop security cable, just for kicks. I wish I could just drill the sucker into the ground.
 
First make sure you and your roomates look the door to the room/suite when nobody is around (vast majority of thefts on a college campus are when someone does something stupid like leaving the door unlocked or open with nobody there), second in general its laptop users that have to be worried, nobody really steals desktops (though I have heard of at least one case where somebody was going around stealing ram from desktops so I guess a lock could help in a case like that).
 
Two anti-theft tools:

1) Get an old, original, IBM XT nameplate and glue it to the front.

2) Put a Linux Penguin on it. 😉

But, yeah, nobody steals desktop computers. It's too obvious. Scratch your name on the case if you want, but it'll have to be easily visible to the thief.
 
lol, I was actually thinking of throwing it into an old HP or Dell case, trying to make it look really, well, undesirable. But yeah, the more I think about it, the less I'm starting to worry. I'm bringing a fairly decent laptop from two or so years ago, a ZD8000, and I guess I should be worrying more about that. But at least that's something I can have with me at all times.

Maybe I'll throw on some massive stickers of Tux and whatever the hell that BSD devil's name is. Or maybe just slap on one of those really old Apple stickers.

Even though this is completely stupid, I could hide the real pc and put out a fake old Pentium and wire the power switch back to the real pc...along with the dvd drive; That'd be a long IDE cable to run though ;-)
 
arover, what about the monitor you are going to use? If your not using a heavy CRT you might be thinking about getting a cable lock for your LCD. Also which Lian-Li's are you looking at; personally I like the A05/A05B.
 
I was looking at this Lian-Li: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?item=N82E16811112100 (The 60B) Primarily because of the 2 x 80mm and 2 x 120mm fans, but I'm open for suggestions. I'm aiming for well balanced cooling since I suspect the hardware I'm going to using will run quite hot. I wish I could go for a CRT, but it wouldn't be practical use of desk space which I'm definitely going to need in college, so I'm going to look into cable locks for lcds.
 
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