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I Hate My PC
Date: 21/7/2006
For years I've put up with a flakey Athlon 1.4 and a few months ago I snapped and bought a Athlon64 3000 (new), a gigabyte nforce3 motherboard (ebay), 1gb of dual channel Geil DDR (ebay) and a Xpertvision 6200 agp (new). Well that sucked even worse, so I tried a 6600gt by leadtek (new) and that was worse again. Google informed me that nforce3 + 6xxx series nVidia cards don't play nice. So thwarted again I dropped that and bought a brand new motherboard, a gigabyte nforce4 based board (new) and a xfx 7600gs pci-e (new). Which worked for all of 3 days before the system started crashing. I ran memtest86 and one of the 2 sticks of ram is bad. #@(*%^@#*(%^@!#)$%! *@&!)(*&$!)@$*&!@)$*(&!@($*&

Everything I bought on ebay has been busted. Let that be a warning to you!

So I've pulled the bad stick of ram, lost 1/2 my memory and dual channel but I think it'll run stable for a few weeks while I sort out this bloody mess.

In stark contrast the Mac mini has been kicking arse for a year now with nary a foot wrong. Gee I wonder which side of the fence I'll choose a laptop from!

I hate PC's.
Comments:
SnappyCrunch
22/07/2006 8:17pm
But... you didn't build your Mac mini from parts you bought on ebay. It's not even remotely a valid comparison.
fret
22/07/2006 10:25pm
Fair call. The last ebay parts will be gone from my machine this week. So I'll be completely new then. And my guess it'll just work at that point.
SnappyCrunch
22/07/2006 10:43pm
Heh. The mini will probably still win in the longevity department.

And the laptop will probably cost you more, but last you longer than a comparable PC.
chaozz
14/08/2006 8:47am
That is not a fair comparison. You didn't build your Mac mini with eBay parts, now did you? So stating that the Mac Mini is better than your (crappy) self build pc is just plain noncence!!

You just had your share of bad luck.
fret
14/08/2006 9:07am
I never said it was fair, but it's just what I have around. If you have "a" and "b" in your house and they are supposed to do function "x" then it's hard not to compare them.

If we factor in price, the PC cost more. So it should be better at doing "x".

The ebay comment is fair enough. I deserved that :D
 
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