What would you rate this computer?

[The Large Moose]

Gaming Rig/CD Burning/Internet Surfing Computer

Cost me roughly $2,000:

Pentium 4 3.4 800FSB 1M L2 Cache
DFI LanParty 915p-T12 Mobo
GeiL Golden Dragon RAM DDR400 1GB
Maxtor 250MB HDD 8MB Cache
Thermaltake V2000 Silver/Red Tower
Ultra X-Connect Green Modular 500w PSU
ASUS X850 XT 256MB Dual DVI Video Card

Add to that 2 52x24x52 CD Burners/16x DVD Reader

 

[Mapnapkin]

Maxtor??
good luck, I've witnessed a lot of failures.

Two CD Burners, one dvd player??
thats strange, why not a dvd/rw

4 fans.. sounds noisy

Sounds like a good setup for the money.
where did you buy?

Dm

 

[M0ddingMan1a]

wats wrong with maxtor????? its one of the best. please tell my why u think that.

 

[Mapnapkin]

Like I said, I've witness a lot of failures with Maxtor.
My boss always buys maxtor for his computers.
First, his maxtor fails.
Then I build him a raid with two 120gb Maxtor HD, that went out.
He bought me this external 80gb Maxtor HD, that broke..
My mom used a maxtor in her comp.. gone.

Of course these are only my personal experiences but I would never buy one.

If you have'nt had this problem, and I hope you never do, then thats good.
I'll have to read up on this more.

Dm

 

[cillo76]

Like I said, I've witness a lot of failures with Maxtor.
My boss always buys maxtor for his computers.
First, his maxtor fails.
Then I build him a raid with two 120gb Maxtor HD, that went out.
He bought me this external 80gb Maxtor HD, that broke..
My mom used a maxtor in her comp.. gone.

Of course these are only my personal experiences but I would never buy one.

If you have'nt had this problem, and I hope you never do, then thats good.
I'll have to read up on this more.

Dm

Hard drive failures usually start with the power supply.

 

[Praetor]

What would you rate this computer?

Nice but id put it on the expensive side

Maxtor??
good luck, i've witnessed a lot of failures.

easy on the fanaticsm. if they were all bad Maxtor would be out of business.

two cd burners, one dvd player??
thats strange, why not a dvd/rw

because dvdburners often cant burn cds for shit. have a look at the CD/DVD 101 for more info.

Like I said, I've witness a lot of failures with Maxtor.

Lots of errors with the Patriot missile too but that dont make Raytheon a bad company.

Hard drive failures usually start with the power supply.

Id argue more harddrives fail from user interactions ... bad voltage tends to corrupt data rather than ruin drives