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But that's what the warranty is for (still a PIA though). I had a bunch of Dell PCs & Workstations and they are decent for the money and as long as it did not have a deathstar drive....
As for integrated, they're adequate if you are not doing anything intensive. Some of the boards based on the Nforce chips aren't bad (I'm running this on a A7NXE Deluxe - not bad but not dedi-gaming)...
Sure it's nice to run a tweaked out system if you have the need but a 2.2 with integrated sound/video/ with the OS and some apps for 6 and change is pretty stinkin' good too. Whoda thunk 6 years ago when we were spending 3K on P166s with 1GB drives, 8 MB video and 64 megs of memory that we'd be talking multi Ghz machines with 50Gb drives, 128MB graphics and half a gig of memory for under 1K. I remember paying close to 10K for a dual P6pro 200, 2.5GB SCSI , 21" monitor, 128MB ram and a 24 meg Elsa Gloria... The video card alone was $2500...
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