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Joe,

I subscribe to tigerdirect.com and periodically receive product special e-mails from them. A few weeks ago, they sent me a deal I just couldn't pass up. Bare bones kits vary in relation to the components. This particular kit had everything except the graphics card and I had to add a case fan. Pretty inclusive. The bare bones kit itself was $299. I added the case fan and the graphics card. All of it came, including the shipping (which was not free) for just under $400.

jrodriguez315 · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

I will subscribe to Tigerdirect and look for upcoming specials. Hopefully it's be just what the doctor ordered.

Thanks Doc!
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DaveChristi · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

Tiger Direct has several different "Barebones" packages... most include at least a case, motherboard, processor and fan. Some will also come with memory and a video card. I tend to be really picky about video cards so I don't go for those.

I'll add a video card, my sound card, and my old harddrive and DVD-ROM drive. ... New system!
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jrodriguez315 · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

On my old computer, my hard-drive went kaplooey so I got a big SATA drive on eBAY. Unfortunately, my system only supported serial connections so I took it down to the Geek Squad and they installed it with some adapter thingy. It should be too hard to pull that hard drive and stick it into a new bare-bones kit (assuming it has SATA connections) right?
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DaveChristi · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject:

You'll find (almost) all new kits come with SATA built on the motherboard. Just double check the specs.
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TheVoiceOfBob · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

Joe,
I'm "assuming" you are speaking of pulling out this hard drive from your old computer and installing it as a secondary data source in the new one, right?

That is what I would HIGHLY recommend.

Asking Windows to reconfigure your old hard drive to work with the new motherboard would be a stretch and would require a lot of preconfiguring (making sure the controller drivers are already present, hard drive interface drivers, etc..) that I would only recommend be done if you have no choice. The best would be to have the OS installed on the new drive and use your old drive as a data source and as an easy way to move/recover data. A clean install of the OS is the only way to go. Anything beyond that is asking for trouble down the road.
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jrodriguez315 · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject:

Bob,

Yeah, that's what I was thinking though I hate to have to reinstall everything yet again, but as Doris Day used to say "Que sera, sera".
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tombrom · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: Dell issues

Hi,
re Dell. I have a Dell laptop and I bought it new.
I had a terrible time trying to get my USB recording device (Lexicon Omega)
to work with it. It kept losing the drivers.
I ended up replacing the whole thing with a DAW.
So whilst I have nothing against Dell - they don't seem to work well with USB recording devices
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