Austin Computer People - Help, where do you buy your parts?

RigdenZW · 09-03-2003, 04:35 PM

Microchipcomputers is no longer in business...

Any Austin people have any ideas on where to buy PC parts cheap?? I'm trying to avoid Fry's for the obvious reasons and CompUsa and Bestbuy are too expensive...

Visit www.microchipcomputers.com to get an idea of what I'm looking for..

Edit- damn.. nevermind.. their site is down now too.. it was just up yesterday.. argh

LimeyWRX · 09-03-2003, 04:57 PM

i've always had good luck with laboratory computers on N. Lamar for pricing. Valiant is another one to try.
These are if you specifically know what you want and not really for off the shelf systems.

RigdenZW · 09-03-2003, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by LimeyWRX
i've always had good luck with laboratory computers on N. Lamar for pricing. Valiant is another one to try.
These are if you specifically know what you want and not really for off the shelf systems.

I always specifically know what I want.. =) To the point of being stubborn or even superstitious..

hehe.. I'll check those places out.

vizor · 09-03-2003, 05:52 PM

Logic Approach, down on S. Lamar, doesn't seem to have a lot of parts, but their collection and prices on CD/CD-RW drives are pretty good (Philips CD-RW for $50 incl SW).

Wallingford has been a decent source for corporate machines we've built up, plus extra parts.

Post up where you went and what you got so us geeks can store it away in the palm pilots for future ref.

RigdenZW · 09-04-2003, 12:26 PM

Well Laboratory Computers seems to be the closest to Microchip.

Plus they have a really cool store.

I'm just building a cheap but decent pc for my brother.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with a AMD XP 2600 processor, two sticks of 256mb ddr pc2700 333mhz, a case and a hard drive.

edit - I have the same motherboard and have been dying to try out the new Serial ATA hard drives.. anyone have any experience with them? The one I have my eye on is the Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 120gb 8.5ms seek time with a 150mb/sec transfer.

Although I did see one that was a 10k rpm 36gb 5.2ms seek with 150mb/sec transfer.. expensive though.

Smahatma · 09-04-2003, 12:36 PM

IMO the 10k rpm sata drives are too expensive to justify the meager performance increases

i have two 160gb 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA seagate barracuda drives and they are fast enough in raid0 for all my video editing and effects production projects

pylorns · 09-04-2003, 12:54 PM

I just puss out and go to frys or order online.. Fry's has those new elumilux keyboards for cheaper than you can get them online.

m@stro · 09-04-2003, 01:00 PM

you could try veloxit on n. lamar across from my shop
we get things from there all the time

guy who owns the place duke is a good guy.

09-03-2003, 04:35 PM	#1
RigdenZW Scooby Specialist Member#: 4531 Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Austin, TX Vehicle: 2001 2.5 RS Sedan Silverthorne Metallic	Austin Computer People - Help, where do you buy your parts? Microchipcomputers is no longer in business... Any Austin people have any ideas on where to buy PC parts cheap?? I'm trying to avoid Fry's for the obvious reasons and CompUsa and Bestbuy are too expensive... Visit www.microchipcomputers.com to get an idea of what I'm looking for.. Edit- damn.. nevermind.. their site is down now too.. it was just up yesterday.. argh

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09-03-2003, 04:57 PM	#2
LimeyWRX Scooby Specialist Member#: 15953 Join Date: Mar 2002 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: USA Vehicle: 04 Impreza WRX STI Aspen White/Gold w/Stg2	i've always had good luck with laboratory computers on N. Lamar for pricing. Valiant is another one to try. These are if you specifically know what you want and not really for off the shelf systems.

09-03-2003, 05:52 PM	#4
vizor Scooby Newbie Member#: 13851 Join Date: Jan 2002 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: Austin, TX Vehicle: 2002 WRX Wagon WRBP	Logic Approach, down on S. Lamar, doesn't seem to have a lot of parts, but their collection and prices on CD/CD-RW drives are pretty good (Philips CD-RW for $50 incl SW). Wallingford has been a decent source for corporate machines we've built up, plus extra parts. Post up where you went and what you got so us geeks can store it away in the palm pilots for future ref.

09-04-2003, 12:26 PM	#5
RigdenZW Scooby Specialist Member#: 4531 Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Austin, TX Vehicle: 2001 2.5 RS Sedan Silverthorne Metallic	Well Laboratory Computers seems to be the closest to Microchip. Plus they have a really cool store. I'm just building a cheap but decent pc for my brother. Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with a AMD XP 2600 processor, two sticks of 256mb ddr pc2700 333mhz, a case and a hard drive. edit - I have the same motherboard and have been dying to try out the new Serial ATA hard drives.. anyone have any experience with them? The one I have my eye on is the Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 120gb 8.5ms seek time with a 150mb/sec transfer. Although I did see one that was a 10k rpm 36gb 5.2ms seek with 150mb/sec transfer.. expensive though.

09-04-2003, 12:36 PM	#6
Smahatma Scooby Specialist Member#: 21492 Join Date: Jul 2002 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: dallas and austin	IMO the 10k rpm sata drives are too expensive to justify the meager performance increases i have two 160gb 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA seagate barracuda drives and they are fast enough in raid0 for all my video editing and effects production projects

09-04-2003, 12:54 PM	#7
pylorns Scooby Specialist Member#: 12753 Join Date: Nov 2001 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: Austin, Tx. Vehicle: 02 06' VW Passat Silver	I just puss out and go to frys or order online.. Fry's has those new elumilux keyboards for cheaper than you can get them online.

09-04-2003, 01:00 PM	#8
m@stro Scooby Guru Member#: 11441 Join Date: Oct 2001 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: Austin Vehicle: 2002 austin, tx	you could try veloxit on n. lamar across from my shop we get things from there all the time guy who owns the place duke is a good guy.