smiles 0 #51 November 10, 2005 No I haven't built my own PC but did buy from Gateway 5 yrs. ago and my purchase had a 3 yr. warranty on all including a 6 yr. on my monitor. Re: this warranty was to my huge advantage along with the fact the desktop was upgradeable. So just under the 3 yr. mark "shit hit the fan", and Gateway just started delivering to my door upgrades to install and return originals to them. No tech help to install but good instructions. Loved the ease of opening her up, and replacing with upgrades in order: 1. fan/cooling system (upgraded) 2. harddrive (upgraded to 80GB Serial ATA II/300 7200rpm hard drive w/ 8MB cache) 3. RAM (upgraded to 512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM Dual Channel (2-256MB modules) 4. cd/cdrw drive (upgraded to include RWcd/dvd) 5. motherboard (upgraded to Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820 featuring two processing cores (2.80GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2x1MB L2 cache) Basically a whole new PC in just under 3 yrs., now she is 5 yrs. old and I am still perfectly pleased.....I figure by next year "shit will start hitting the fan" again and then I get to build my own box!! Then of course the monitor will be replaced by my 6 yr. warranty with gateway!! SMileseustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gravitysucks 0 #52 November 10, 2005 Try this website, it worked good for me and they have decent prices: http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildcard451 0 #53 November 10, 2005 My stuff is out for delivery!!!!! Will be here very very sooooon. Time to get my build on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
