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dashbarron   10-17-2007 at 05:04:33 AM

The latest Tom's Hardware article comparing AVA Direct & Digital Storm computer manufactures is news to me. I've never heard of them, but services such as their's appeal to me. What about Cyber Power PC (cyberpowerpc.com). I have heard about their site and was relatively impressed. Any thoughts?

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drkevorkian   10-17-2007 at 05:21:35 AM
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It all depends on what kind of pc you're looking at making. Toward the lower end these manufacturers make financial sense in that they are cheaper or equally priced to a home-built counterpart, but I think as you move up to higher end pc's it makes less sense than building your own

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dashbarron   10-19-2007 at 02:41:17 AM
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Hmmm, any other opinons/elaborations?

I see that I can shave a few bucks off a video card, or RAM, but the general system build seems to be dependable, at least on the sense of cyberpower. I'm unsure about a few cooling options/set-up, I hate matching motherboard to a case (Back of the board to a case), and warranty from one place is easier to manage.

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lostandwandering   10-19-2007 at 02:53:05 AM
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I haven't heard a lot of good things about Cyber Power. I haven't heard much at all about AVA Direct so I can't say about them. There is a company called ABS and they are actually a sister company to newegg.com (owned by I think). Their prices aren't too bad for what you get.

http://www.abs.com/index.asp

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cory1234   10-19-2007 at 04:00:35 AM
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With cyberpower you limiting your options with what you can really build. Some of their parts are good...others I wish they had more options to chose from.(case,ps,ram is way to expensive) IMO you cant beat your own build, its cheaper, better quality parts, and I actually enjoy opening a dozen or so computer parts like its christmas time. LOL


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dashbarron   10-20-2007 at 03:36:25 AM
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LOL, nicely said. I see so many people who are proud they built a system, but a simple thing like matching the back of the case to the motherboard, and not having gaping holes about ruins the pride of a system build for me. A problem I'm not sure how to prevent. Also unsure about cases and which is the best for airflow. I also have some other trivial problems I dont know how, or like dealing with. But yes, I've built a few before for other people, but for my own I want to be picky :)

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nickc07   10-20-2007 at 10:10:45 AM
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My friend ordered a $5500 Customer PC from Cyberpower. He could have built it but didnt have time. He is a doctor. I even offered to built it for him, but for tax reasons it had to come from a company he said. Anyways, He got this new PC in the day of a big lan party. We had to spend about 12 hours fixing his PC. 1 stick of ram was bad and the hard drive/OS was not installed correctly. I would think with spending soo much money they would test all this for you.

I agree with Cory, I love building my own PC. I would jut take your time. Spend about an hour per part researching to pick the correct one. Then plan about 3-5 hours when it all comes in to correctly setup eveything.

YES I know it shouldnt take near that long, but I would rather overshoot then have to tell my wife it was going to be a few more hours :)

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