Local build shop...?

[zi0n.]

Hello there,

My friend is looking for like a local shop that can build her a PC if you bring them the parts? She lives on NJ.. Jersey shore. I'm really far away so I can't really do it.

Appreciate any help or suggestion...

 

[Davidh373]

Google, "Jersey Shore custom Computers" It is what many of us will do and it would be easier for you to do it, or she can do it so you aren't forcing the footwork on us. Thanks.

 

[Soundmanred]

Can you explain the situation?

 

[Blain]

* Any shop will charge a premium price if you bring in your own components.
* Why would your friend choose to have a pile of parts assembled, rather than simply buy a Dell, Lenovo, Asus, etc?
* As easy performance solution for a pre-built box is to add an upgraded video card or more memory.

 

[Murloc]

* Any shop will charge a premium price if you bring in your own components.
* Why would your friend choose to have a pile of parts assembled, rather than simply buy a Dell, Lenovo, Asus, etc?
* As easy performance solution for a pre-built box is to add an upgraded video card or more memory.

1. true, he should just learn to build the computer.
2. those PCs have bad memory and cases (things no one notices, noobs usually look at the hard disk size, ram size (not frequency), and cpu cores), the CPU and GPU are not balanced (you can't play computer games with those), the PSU sucks.
3. it's not. If you add a video card you will ahve to buy a new case and a new psu because it's not powerful enough, the case is too small and the card doesn't fit, and the airflow is insufficent. It's very difficult to mount it in those cases too.
Adding memory is useless because it's still crap memory.

 

[Soundmanred]

1. true, she should just learn to build the computer.
2. those PCs have bad memory and cases (things no one notices, noobs usually look at the hard disk size, ram size (not frequency), and cpu cores), the CPU and GPU are not balanced (you can't play computer games with those), the PSU sucks.
3. it's not. If you add a video card you will ahve to buy a new case and a new psu because it's not powerful enough, the case is too small and the card doesn't fit, and the airflow is insufficent. It's very difficult to mount it in those cases too.
Adding memory is useless because it's still crap memory.

Everything you said is true.
Well, it was in 2003.
(I'm not even sure what CPU/GPU "balancing" is )
I've upgraded tons of prebuilts with memory, video cards, etc and I've never had to get a new case.
Please stop repeating stuff people have been saying for years, it simply isn't true anymore.
To get a high end gaming machine I would start from scratch, but for anything less, an upgraded prebuilt is a great way to get what you want for cheap. All of the Dell's I've seen have Kingston memory.
Your regurgitated theories are just plain wrong.

 

[mfenn]

(I'm not even sure what CPU/GPU "balancing" is ).

A "balanced" gaming system means a well-matched CPU and GPU. A Sempron 140 with a GTX 480 is just a crappy as a 980X with a 5450.

 

[Davidh373]

Everything you said is true.
Well, it was in 2003.
(I'm not even sure what CPU/GPU "balancing" is )
I've upgraded tons of prebuilts with memory, video cards, etc and I've never had to get a new case.
Please stop repeating stuff people have been saying for years, it simply isn't true anymore.
To get a high end gaming machine I would start from scratch, but for anything less, an upgraded prebuilt is a great way to get what you want for cheap. All of the Dell's I've seen have Kingston memory.
Your regurgitated theories are just plain wrong.

Let's be fair here. There are a lot of unbalanced PC builds out there. The iMac's 1066Mhz memory, and 4650 with a i7 670 is just ridiculous. They can call this Machine "Magical" and "whimsical" and "The best thing to shoot out our ass yet" all they want but that doesn't change the fact they cut design corners. (the vents are at the bottom of the iMac BTW, not the top "Hello Mac, Heat RISES " ). That goes for Dell and HP too. I've had 3 friends have their MacBook's hard drives go bad, and my hard drive was clicking like mad before I replaced it. My Time Capsule (Which is the reason I will never buy a Mac again) has a 1TB drive in it that gets a 1MB/S transfer rate after a year, and my HP from 5 years ago originally sported 2GB DDR2 667 (4 x 512MB), 2 laptop HDs @ 250GB 5400RPM, a Geforce 7300 and a Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.66Ghz. They spent 3x as much on the processor than anything else in that PoS and it cost an outrageous $1,400. If I had any sense about computers at the time I got it as a gift I would have returned it and built a Core2 Quad system.