Back a Few years ago a friend of mine "charlene" and her girlfriend "Teri" asked me, "dear aramis build us a pc"
we need it for work, so against my recommendations and without consulting Teri fully with my recommendations she went with the uber budget pc
Now ladies and gents, and to all those of you who "cheap out" as i call it, spending that £100 less can cost you dearly a poor power supply saves you £30 to £50 but if it explodes "which cheap ones have a habit of doing" then well it could cost you a lot more than £100 you initially cut out of your budget
it has been 3 years since they bought that pc for £300, and i have spent an additional £60 on repairs "my gift to them" and i had to reduce the memory, and it still works pretty poorly and charlene has since left her now x girlfriend with the computer and the initial bill, how so nice of her
Though i feel Teri took it out of guilt, it has been handy to her but It still underperforms
being as they were both close friends i gave the pc "at no cost, pay later encase your wondering" but now recently I have decided to completely replace the budget crap components, coz i feel Teri should not get the Computer Pains from the decision of her now X Girlfriend
More so since I am more close friends with Teri and disasociate away from charlene "my choice" I decided for a early Christmas gift i will turn Teri's crappy sempron 1.6ghz with a tiny amount of rubbish memory and a ok 200gb maxtor hard drive into
a athalon 3200 2.ghz with a new asus motherboard, and 1gb of ocz memory and a full media centre setup along with a 320gb western digital sata
but i feel compelled to keep the old case, maybe im feeling sentimental in my old age
some of you may wonder whoah powerful pc "filled with sarcasm" but considering the low spec it was before it is a far better upgrade, along with reliable parts, not to mention free
and lets be honest who needs a more powerful pc for work and movies than this ?
But if this was a server for a company or someones vital work pc, it would be under performing, have more down time than should ever be acceptible, 5 reinstalls and finally no less than 30 painfull hours of my life
think about it this way, if they were not my friends thats £15.00 per hour or £150 per job, or £90 per reinstall
talk about some serious doh
we need it for work, so against my recommendations and without consulting Teri fully with my recommendations she went with the uber budget pc
Now ladies and gents, and to all those of you who "cheap out" as i call it, spending that £100 less can cost you dearly a poor power supply saves you £30 to £50 but if it explodes "which cheap ones have a habit of doing" then well it could cost you a lot more than £100 you initially cut out of your budget
it has been 3 years since they bought that pc for £300, and i have spent an additional £60 on repairs "my gift to them" and i had to reduce the memory, and it still works pretty poorly and charlene has since left her now x girlfriend with the computer and the initial bill, how so nice of her
Though i feel Teri took it out of guilt, it has been handy to her but It still underperforms
being as they were both close friends i gave the pc "at no cost, pay later encase your wondering" but now recently I have decided to completely replace the budget crap components, coz i feel Teri should not get the Computer Pains from the decision of her now X Girlfriend
More so since I am more close friends with Teri and disasociate away from charlene "my choice" I decided for a early Christmas gift i will turn Teri's crappy sempron 1.6ghz with a tiny amount of rubbish memory and a ok 200gb maxtor hard drive into
a athalon 3200 2.ghz with a new asus motherboard, and 1gb of ocz memory and a full media centre setup along with a 320gb western digital sata
but i feel compelled to keep the old case, maybe im feeling sentimental in my old age
some of you may wonder whoah powerful pc "filled with sarcasm" but considering the low spec it was before it is a far better upgrade, along with reliable parts, not to mention free
and lets be honest who needs a more powerful pc for work and movies than this ?
But if this was a server for a company or someones vital work pc, it would be under performing, have more down time than should ever be acceptible, 5 reinstalls and finally no less than 30 painfull hours of my life
think about it this way, if they were not my friends thats £15.00 per hour or £150 per job, or £90 per reinstall
talk about some serious doh
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