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Date: | Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:41:28 -0400 |
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Everybody wants to save money (who doesn't?) In upgrading computers
however, people don't realize that there's more things to consider than just
harddrives and CPU speed. A customer at one time walked into the shop with
his old Gateway CPU box. He wanted his old P-II 350 MHz entirely upgraded
with the exception of the case. After a quick evaluation, our technician
said that it would not be feasible to reuse the Gateway case because of its
low power supply and a motherboard which was unquestionably old and
obsolete, using SIMMs.
After politely telling the customer the situation, he stubbornly insisted
for us to replace the Gateway P/S with "maybe a 350W?" I showed him our
supplier's catalogue showing the 350W P/S at $75 which he was very willing
to pay. We tried to convince him to get an entirely new system instead for
a lot less than what he wanted to do. Well, we sold the man a
'new-everything P4 1.8 system' (per his spec.) minus the case. We end up
installing a new 350W P/S (with temperature sensor output) and
replaced/modified the front power sw/monitor lights/USB module on his
Gateway box to match the pins for the motherboard connections. Also
installed 2 cooling fans.
5 days later the man showed up, tickled to death when he saw the
"day-and-night difference!" in performance between the old system and his
new "Gateway" P4 system. He practically left the store with an ear-to-ear
smile. The bottom line? We sold the man a very reasonably-priced upgrade
system. In addition to that, I gained a new CompuCase ATX mid-tower case
minus the power supply. What I paid for the CPU case with the 350W P/S? A
lot less than what you would pay for the power supply itself. (This is where
Jun Quian's comments below comes in. The only difference is, this was a
Gateway!)
Emie DelRosario
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> This is the part I don't want to say (people don't like to listen), but to
> speak the truth, it is not a very smart thing to recycle your dell box.
The
> money you spent on new power supply, and case fan, in total, would come
> close to a good quality case with good power supply. eg. Antec Lanboy
case,
> which come with 350w Antec power supply + case fan, is barely expensive
> (US$20 - $30) than just buy the power supply itself.
>
> Jun Qian
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