[Fyron]

So basically for the same money you can get the equvalent quality machine with a legit copy of an OS, already put together and ready to go. If you aren't just doing it for the fun of building it yourself, it doesn't really make sense.

In reality, this is not true. It might be for that Tom's Hardware article, but when you really go to build your own PC, you do save a lot of money and can get higher quality hardware (because you can choose what to get, rather than being stuck with the cheapest garbage the company selling you that prebuilt PC could find) when building the computer yourself (including the cost of the OS). The savings are not as large as they were a few years ago, but they still are large. Especially if you take advantage of rebates that appear for nearly every item from time to time, or go to computer fairs to get parts far cheaper than in stores such as Best Buy.

Of course, if you already own a copy of an OS and are building a new PC to replace the old one, you can use the OS CD you already have. There is no need to buy a second copy of it.

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
David Gervais and Cirvol.

Thanks very much, My pc has been quite cluttered recently and VERY slow. I tried what you suggested about Defragmenting and Virtual Memory and it has done wonders for it, and it hasn't crashed once yet. Thanks for that

It is a good idea to defragment your hard drive once every 2 weeks or so. If you do it often, it doesn't take very long to do it each time. You do not need to disable the virtual memory swap file each time of course.

[ June 03, 2004, 18:56: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]