Subj : Re: Gaming (Windows) PC:
To   : Tracker1
From : Brian Rogers
Date : Tue Jul 20 2021 12:00 pm

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.


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