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Default OT Building new computer (DIY)

On 7/14/2012 7:15 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 07/14/12 05:53 pm, Oren wrote:
Seeking opinions of current parts.


My work for him is free -- start to finish.


For years I've bought nothing but Asus motherboards, AMD CPUs and
Seagate hard drives (except that I bought Hitachi drives for notebooks)
-- almost all my dead drives are Western Digital. Most recently I've
been buying G.Skill RAM but previously bought mostly Kingston. The DVD
drives I've bought recently have been whatever was on sale at the time.

My most recent purchases have been from NewEgg.com, but TigerDirect.com
has occasionally had better prices.

Perce


Western Digital has a perceived lower failure rate than Seagate the last
few years from the websites I buy from.