Upgrading System QuestionPost Date: 2007-10-25 |
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 Topic: Upgrading System QuestionPosted: 25 Oct 2007 at 7:10pm |
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Lets say that if i ever wanted to upgrade my DS sytem (like adding a extra graphics card, extra ram, etc.) could i ship my system back to DS and they install the hardware for me? if so what would the costs for this be?
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The Letter T
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Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 8:10pm |
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Warranty Article D
Digital Storm gives the customer the freedom to upgrade his or her computer system. If you would like Digital Storm to upgrade your system for you, you will be responsible for shipping costs back and forth and a small labor fee. I would assume this means that if you provide the hardware to install, and send it to them with their fee, they'd upgrade it for you. What is their fee, you'd have to ask them, but it probably depends on what kind of upgrade it is if I had to say. Edited by The Letter T - 25 Oct 2007 at 8:11pm |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 8:40pm |
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The average labor costs for an upgrade is $35. However, it can get up to $70 if it's a re-build. For example, if you want us to add a water cooling system, a new motherboard, a new CPU, a new graphics card, and anything else you can imagine... It'll be $70.
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Tyler Lowe
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Posted: 26 Oct 2007 at 12:06am |
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Wow, that's really reasonable. I'd hate to ever be without a system for the time it would take to ship both ways, plus time spent in the shop, but if it ever came down to it, it's great to know that the labor involved isn't an arm and a leg.
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Bill the Cat
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Posted: 26 Oct 2007 at 1:07am |
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As much as I like DSO, I think you would have to be insane to do this, unless you were doing a massive upgrade. The shipping costs, the wear and tear on the system during transit, the weeks without your machine would make this prohibitively expensive.
If you were replacing the mother board or a liquid cooling system in a really expensive machine, it might be justified. For anything less, I suggest finding a local "screw driver shop" if you don't want to do it yourself. Of course, if you live near San Jose, that's another story.
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Bigdog
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Posted: 26 Oct 2007 at 1:30am |
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Well, I am glade I finally got my computer ready to be built. Damn intel for discontinuing the QX6800, those bastards
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I think really the only thing I may have to upgrade in the future is the motherboard, since they are coming out with PCIe 2.0 & 3.0. I am going to wait till 3.0 comes out then see where it goes from there. From what I have read PCIe3.0 wont be out till 2009 or 2010(somewhere on the forums here). Personally though, I think the 3.0Ghz quad cores are going to be great for 7 to maybe even 10 years. Even if they come out with a 5 or 6 core system, I highly doubt at all, that a lot of games are going to utilize it.
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Posted: 26 Oct 2007 at 3:32am |
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7 to 10 years is a looooong time. Ten years ago, a P3 was a decent machine. Ten years from now, a 3.0 GHz quad is going to look like a P3 looks now. I think even 7 years is pushing it. I'll be *very*happy to get 5 to 6 years from my new rig. I figure much past that and we could be staring at quad channel RAM and a unified cpu/gpu and wondering how we ever put up with the slow machines of today.... I have no idea how realistic that is, but it seems more likely than my machine of 2007 pulling me through til 2017.
I agree with Bill when it comes to minor repairs, but when it comes to projects were breaking things during a major upgrade would cause me to cry like a little girl, I'd happily pay the $75.
I am imagining going to seat a $500 or greater cpu and seeing a tiny little spark shoot off my fingertip .... "I thought I was grounded!!!!".... "OMFG".... "ARRRRGGHHH!!!" - this is my sort of luck. $75 seems cheap next to that sort of fiasco.
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