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View Poll Results: Did you build your main computer by yourself?
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Yeah, I built it myself
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63.92% |
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Nope, I bought it pre-built
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20 |
20.62% |
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Nope, I had some help
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12.37% |
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Other (Please Specify)
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3.09% |
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06-10-2002, 12:40 PM
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Amo ng Kapahamakan
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan
Posts: 11,775
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Did you build your main computer by yourself?
The poll came kinda late, but better late than ... later!
Since this is a tech site, I assume there are a lot of people here who have assembled their own systems. This poll only concerns your main system (meaning the system you are using to read this post right now).
So, how many built their own? And how many bought theirs pre-built? (or got a Dell ... dude)
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06-10-2002, 12:43 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The dark and scary forests of the north of Sweden
Posts: 38
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I built mine. Old parts and new parts. Cheap parts and expensive parts. It's very home-made, but it works!
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Nam et ipsa scienta potestas est
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06-10-2002, 01:02 PM
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Ex-Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 2,596
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Bought mine pre-built, but then upgraded it.  |
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06-10-2002, 01:06 PM
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what
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posts: 6,882
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Using a computer you didn't build yourself, is like wearing someone else's underwear...
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Videogames! Why waste good technology on science and medicine?
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06-10-2002, 02:07 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Denver, Earth
Posts: 4,289
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Built my main rig myself, but not this one I'm using at the moment.
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06-10-2002, 02:10 PM
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All my computers since 1996 are home built systems.
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06-10-2002, 02:16 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Icecrown Citadel
Posts: 3,978
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Built it myself
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I see... only darkness... before me...
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06-10-2002, 05:09 PM
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Coffee Addict
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 244
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Mine is a gateway. Got prebuilt because thats only way dad could buy it through work. But I plan on taking it out, buying a case and making some mods to it, putting in a 128 geforce 4 instead of the 64 i got, new mobo etc
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I dance with paperclips.
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06-10-2002, 05:21 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 4,831
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Angst and I have two Pentium III (500 and 533mhz) Hewlett-Packards that we've added memory and vid cards to. Both machines were gifts from our respective sets of parents during college. I guess we're pretty vanilla as far as hardware goes.
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06-10-2002, 05:45 PM
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I AM OTS
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: lurking in the woods
Posts: 14,706
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originally bought it prebuilt, have upgraded with help several times since
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06-10-2002, 06:19 PM
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Staff Member
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Jersey
Posts: 4,346
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Right now I am on a Dell. But the main comp I use is one that all the parts were bought at a computer show but someone their assembled it.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, number 1 in the hood.....G!
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06-11-2002, 07:30 AM
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You wretch!
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Columbia, Misery (again)
Posts: 1,191
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Had some help first from a local comp. shop. They slapped together my rig. Since then a friend has helped me put in my upgrades, and built my router.
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06-11-2002, 07:31 AM
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I am lag.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Unknown
Posts: 8,161
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I have an HP Pavilion xt967 with a mx90 19" monitor.
Only thing I have changed on this system is the video card, TNT2 to a GF4 Ti 4400.
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06-11-2002, 11:59 AM
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Staff Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,446
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I got mine prebuilt by Dell, with upgrades being done by me.
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