Fed up of mac - Getting custom made gaming PC

[Recursion]

You get what you pay for .


Even as a Windows/PC Fan, I do have to admit that the new mac pro looks awesome inside.

1. Why the hell does the inside need to look nice?
2. When I open up my computer I want to see all the bits and bobs in their full glory, I can't see any of that without dissassembling half of that Mac Pro!

[Turbocom]

1. Why the hell does the inside need to look nice?
2. When I open up my computer I want to see all the bits and bobs in their full glory, I can't see any of that without dissassembling half of that Mac Pro!

I agree with that.

[Black_Apalachi]

My dad bought me a Macbook but it wasn't right for me really, but I felt bad for wasting the money as well .

[Chippiewill]

1. Why the hell does the inside need to look nice?
2. When I open up my computer I want to see all the bits and bobs in their full glory, I can't see any of that without dissassembling half of that Mac Pro!

1. It doesn't have too, but it's a bonus
2. It's easy, you undo a latch and then you can see the motherboard and the sister board, another latch will allow you to slide out the sister board. Far easier than 101 screws. Far shorter than getting into a PC...

[Recursion]

1. It doesn't have too, but it's a bonus
2. It's easy, you undo a latch and then you can see the motherboard and the sister board, another latch will allow you to slide out the sister board. Far easier than 101 screws. Far shorter than getting into a PC...

I don't have to undo any screws to get at my PC, I just pull the side back and im in and have full access, at most all I have is a couple of thumbscrews to take the side off, which I don't normally use anyway.

What's a sister board? :S

That sounds so dirty LOL.

[Chippiewill]

I don't have to undo any screws to get at my PC, I just pull the side back and im in and have full access, at most all I have is a couple of thumbscrews to take the side off, which I don't normally use anyway.

What's a sister board? :S

That sounds so dirty LOL.

Fine you need to do some thumbscrews where as the mac needs 1 latch

A sister board is basically a separate board from the mother board. It can carry anything but in the case of the mac it carries the two nehalem processors and the RAM. It is for cooling reasons, there is a fan at the front of the sister board and one at the back so that air passes right over it.

[Agnostic Bear]

Fine you need to do some thumbscrews where as the mac needs 1 latch

A sister board is basically a separate board from the mother board. It can carry anything but in the case of the mac it carries the two nehalem processors and the RAM. It is for cooling reasons, there is a fan at the front of the sister board and one at the back so that air passes right over it.

What are you talking about? *board isn't a family term, it's Mother or Main board, not sister, brother, uncle and aunty boards :S

[Recursion]

Fine you need to do some thumbscrews where as the mac needs 1 latch

A sister board is basically a separate board from the mother board. It can carry anything but in the case of the mac it carries the two nehalem processors and the RAM. It is for cooling reasons, there is a fan at the front of the sister board and one at the back so that air passes right over it.

I don't though, all I have to do is pull the side back, I never put the thumbscrews on durrr

So you say it's better for cooling, I wonder how it fairs up to having them on the motherboard with heatsinks and air passing over them.

[Chippiewill]

What are you talking about? *board isn't a family term, it's Mother or Main board, not sister, brother, uncle and aunty boards :S

It's just motherboard and sisterboard...

If you want to see a video of the inside of the mac pro
http://odtv.me/2009/03/mac-pro-unboxing/

So you say it's better for cooling, I wonder how it fairs up to having them on the motherboard with heatsinks and air passing over them.

It's used for spacing, also this way it divides up the system, the hard drive trays at the top, the PCI cards on the motherboard in the middle and the CPU and RAM at the bottom.

[Oleh]

Well the thing what matters is the money your willing to spend on each part if doing it seperatley (sometimes cheaper due to no build cost) such as i had a limit of £500 but i went for the arbico way and ordered a custom pc, spent £285 on one £40 on mouse £60 on keyboard £70 on monitor and £45 on a corner desk off ebay

Go with arbico and get a performance pc, they are relativley cheap for what you get and work brilliantly, dont go for the x-blade case though if you want to go to arbico, they are huge and very tacky, go with one without many leds or a coolermaster, my pc when i last checked topped out at 65 degrees celcius