<p>I haven't had a biostar mobo in recent years, but the one I had years ago served faithfully.</p>
<p>I loathe Dell desktops (non-standard parts, highly expensive replacements, often crappy mobos), but we have mostly Dell servers at work, and they've been pretty solid, not to mention speedy parts delivery, RMA (a few flakey drives) etc. There's a definite divide between their corporate and consumer service/components.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On 2010-05-27 1:03 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:32:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:<br>
> NewEgg.ca's "Shell Shocker" (o...</font></p>Not sure about Biostar boards. Never dealt with them.<br>
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The CPU is sold out however so it probably doesn't matter. I guess they<br>
wanted to clear out the old leftovers and seem to have succeeded.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> Dell's "SMB Days" (a few one-day deals, in sequence) today includes a<br>> PowerEdge R210 server wit...</font></p>Well I know enough to not buy any computer that says Dell on it.<br>
Monitors and some other parts are great from Dell, but I will not touch<br>
their computers or printers.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> Oh, they have a massively discounted D-Link DSM-330 HD Media Player<br>> ($199.99 discounted to $59....</font></p>No idea.<br>
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