[ale] Building computers

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 19:48:18 EDT 2020


On 8/10/20 7:30 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> On 8/10/20 5:56 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>
>> In this case it was that the vendor claimed compatibility with the
>> Dell H305P-02 but it had a completely different motherboard
>> connector.
> 
> Don't buy complete desktops, from any of the huge vendors who will have 
> funky changes to standardized components.


The Goodwill store sold them for $35-$50, to include a 500GB drive and 4 
GB of ram. I'm on a Dell 960 now, but it doesn't have the RAM or cores 
of the 980.

In general, I like cheap. But you're right, compatibility helps if you 
have to change or upgrade.

Leam


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