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To: Shadow who wrote (121660)	5/2/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: musea	Respond to of 176387

Shadow and thread, As a manufacturer, you have to be doing something really marginal to create a PC with these sorts of problems. I would guess, as a start, that any heat sink they are using on the CPU is inadequate. I would bet that the connectors used on the motherboard are subject to mechanical failure. I would bet that the board isn't designed with close attention to critical timings, clock skew, noise, etc. etc. etc. The thing that makes Dell PCs worth what you pay for them is that they have thought all of these issues through (engineering) and they have also tested all of these software packages and network configurations. When you buy one, you are buying all of the up-front work that Dell puts in. It's not really a box assembly issue, at least not purely so. Also, Dell PCs are much (MUCH) easier to work on if you need to change hardware out. All of these cheap PCs come with a degree of risk, risk of downtime and risk of support time. That's why the Fortune 500 goes for Dell PCs. I know I'm preaching to the choir on this thread, but others might need to understand this sort of thing. For the individual buyer, who doesn't usually factor in the hidden support costs that the big corporations understand, I say caveat emptor. -musea