Hello Daniel, Thanks for your message. Please see my comments inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Villarreal" <youcanlinux@gmail.com> To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
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Dear Mr. Petrie,
Good to see your inquiry on the list...
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I can understand not necessarily wanting to work on this yourself. I do not receive any consideration at all from the Canadian companies (from the Falls) on my list, but I absolutely trust them to build the very best and stand by their work... Please see my recommendations at my blog... https://youcanlinux.wordpress.com/company-recommendations/
It comes down to rock-solid reliability and the highest-quality components. I have had the shop work on my computer years after purchase. The customers see the value in this devotion to quality, attention-to-detail, and total pride in their work.
Thanks for that !! I'll check out your recommendations.
Sincerely, Daniel Villarreal http://www.youcanlinux.org youcanlinux at gmail.com PGP key 2F6E 0DC3 85E2 5EC0 DA03 3F5B F251 8938 A83E 7B49 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF2518938A83E7B49
P.S. If you still want to build it yourself or have GTALUG members build a computer, you might consider sourcing the parts from this company and even have them assemble the motherboard (proc, fan, RAM, any ancillary cooling options you might want) and test so that you have a reliable base system.
Makes sense. I do have particular dreads of e.g. wrecking the pins on the CPU chip. Or e.g. getting into a kindergarten art-comedy with heat sink paste.