[GTALUG] Brand-name desktop recommendation?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 01:56:19PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> FWIW, the brand I have reliably stuck with has been Asus ... as in
> motherboards.

Yeah I stick with Asus boards in my own desktop machines.  Of course for
home I would never buy a premade desktop.  I want something good and I
don't mind putting it together myself.  I like doing that part usually
(I have one machine that was actually a pain the ass to work on, but I
doubt any store would have been willing to assemble that one either.
Putting six 4TB drives, a bluray writer, a sabertooth X77 with core
i7-3820 and 32GB ram in a home theatre PC case probably qualifies as nuts.
It was very hard to get all the cables in the right place).

> The last few desktops I have bought for myself have been from Canada
> Computers; I research the individual components (case, CPU, mobo, video,
> SSD, etc), and the store will assemble and test together the result for
> what I consider a nominal fee. This path also makes it easy to buy a system
> without an OS pre-loaded, so I'm not wasting money on a Windows license
> I'll not be using; that can be difficult when looking at desktops bought
> retail (ie, BestBuy or Costco).

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Len Sorensen