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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: WldThing on April 18, 2003, 10:40:07 AM

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: WldThing on April 18, 2003, 10:40:07 AM

The site where you can specify what you want in your computer and the people there put it together for a price..

Does anyone know of the site im talking about?

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: maddog on April 18, 2003, 10:54:47 AM

Falcon does that.....

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: Siaf__csf on April 18, 2003, 10:56:16 AM

There must be at least a thousand such sites in the US alone.

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: Thorns on April 20, 2003, 12:46:31 AM

If you can pull a P-51 out of a spin, you can build your own computer. ;)

Thorns

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: gunahurl on April 20, 2003, 03:41:03 PM

I bought my last computer about 2 years ago from Monarch Computers, would buy the next one form them if I don't build it my self. They will also sell you pre-tested cpu motherboard combos.


 http://www.monarchcomputer.com/



Gunahurl  :)

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: Ghosth on April 20, 2003, 04:23:14 PM

Mwave.com

excellent prices, very close to newegg & other low end dealers.

Great selection.

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: WldThing on April 20, 2003, 04:23:29 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Thorns
If you can pull a P-51 out of a spin, you can build your own computer. ;)

Thorns

Alrighty then..It CAN be done :)


Thanks Gunahurl..Awesome site!

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: Reschke on April 20, 2003, 08:27:43 PM

If you want to spend all your available cash for the next several months/years then look at http://www.falcon-nw.com or http://www.alienware.com or http://www.voodoopc.com or any other custom build shop.

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: Baine on April 24, 2003, 10:20:51 AM

I'm a total dweeb in many things, including AH and building computers. But I went to Mwave.com and got a barebones system (case, mb, cpu, floppy _ all assembled) threw in some ram (which they installed) and then used components from my old machine to build a computer that works really well (much to my surprise) and only cost me about half or a quarter of what it would have cost if I'd bought a complete system.
Total construction time was maybe two hours.
Toughest part was reformatting the HD and installing win98, and that was pretty easy once I checked the MS site (and I don't know, I might have been able to get away with putting my HD in and using the old windows install, but I didn't want to take the chance.)
I could probably have done it even cheaper if I'd wanted to just buy the components and do all of the building myself, but for a starter this was a cheap, easy alternative that increased my confidence for future computer projects.
Good luck.

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: boxboy28 on April 24, 2003, 11:50:13 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Ghosth
Mwave.com

excellent prices, very close to newegg & other low end dealers.

Great selection.

Definently MWAVE or NEWEGG  are where to go!

Title: Looking for the website
Post by: WldThing on April 24, 2003, 12:02:29 PM

Yup Mwave was the one i was thinking of, thanks for all the inputs  =S=