Hello Tracker1;
-=> Tracker1 wrote to Brian Rogers <=-
Tr> Dell are effectively hot garbage e-waste... half the parts in newer
Tr> systems are completely proprietary, even the power supply and
Tr> motherboards on many of them right now. And while some are 12V only,
Tr> they aren't the new standard even.
Most of your hardware sellers are going this route in an attempt to "lock you
in" to their product.
Tr> The lower-end video cards are crap, the higher end are okay. That
Tr> doesn't go into the bloatware, and their really sleazy sales channel
Tr> tactics right now. If you're going big box builder, HP is likely a
Tr> better bet.
HP also is with it's issues, propriety hardware as well as putting excessive
amounts of heatsink glue on C/GPUs, thus causing a reverse affect of them
overheating. I can't count how many times I've had to scrape off the excess
paste to fix overheating issues with HP.
... Old photographers never die, they just stop developing.
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