Oooh, I've had bad experiences with my family's Cousin-who-builds-computers. I hope you really trust yours.
About 4 years ago, we built a good, working computer from parts my sister selected. Right at the end of last year's october, however - right before NaNo, even - it started to turn off without warning, usually when I was saving a nearly completed digital image file :/ It was a motherboard failure.
My sister made a new list of parts and prices and asked father for the money, but, sexist as my father is, he simply grabbed our CPU and landed it at our cousin's store, where it sat for two weeks waiting for some elusive "parts". When it came back, surprise: the motherboard and processor he had installed were inferior to the ones we had selected 4 years before. Not only that, but he had kept our video card (the new motherboard doesn't HAVE a video card slot). The only upgrade was the memory card, from 256 to 512, and yet he acted as if it made the machine an amazing juggernaut. My father blithely defended him - until last month, when we proved that the computer CPU he had bought from Mr. Cousin for 1500 reais actually costed 400, case and all.
To top it off, we had to reinstall windows recently and only then noticed he had NOT given us the motherboard's instalation CD :/ little rat.
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Date: 2008-07-17 04:28 am (UTC)About 4 years ago, we built a good, working computer from parts my sister selected. Right at the end of last year's october, however - right before NaNo, even - it started to turn off without warning, usually when I was saving a nearly completed digital image file :/ It was a motherboard failure.
My sister made a new list of parts and prices and asked father for the money, but, sexist as my father is, he simply grabbed our CPU and landed it at our cousin's store, where it sat for two weeks waiting for some elusive "parts". When it came back, surprise: the motherboard and processor he had installed were inferior to the ones we had selected 4 years before. Not only that, but he had kept our video card (the new motherboard doesn't HAVE a video card slot). The only upgrade was the memory card, from 256 to 512, and yet he acted as if it made the machine an amazing juggernaut. My father blithely defended him - until last month, when we proved that the computer CPU he had bought from Mr. Cousin for 1500 reais actually costed 400, case and all.
To top it off, we had to reinstall windows recently and only then noticed he had NOT given us the motherboard's instalation CD :/ little rat.