On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 01:56:19PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
FWIW, the brand I have reliably stuck with has been Asus ... as in motherboards.
Yeah I stick with Asus boards in my own desktop machines. Of course for home I would never buy a premade desktop. I want something good and I don't mind putting it together myself. I like doing that part usually (I have one machine that was actually a pain the ass to work on, but I doubt any store would have been willing to assemble that one either. Putting six 4TB drives, a bluray writer, a sabertooth X77 with core i7-3820 and 32GB ram in a home theatre PC case probably qualifies as nuts. It was very hard to get all the cables in the right place).
The last few desktops I have bought for myself have been from Canada Computers; I research the individual components (case, CPU, mobo, video, SSD, etc), and the store will assemble and test together the result for what I consider a nominal fee. This path also makes it easy to buy a system without an OS pre-loaded, so I'm not wasting money on a Windows license I'll not be using; that can be difficult when looking at desktops bought retail (ie, BestBuy or Costco).
-- Len Sorensen