Packard Bell Refreshes imedia Desktops Comments

OK, all well and good, but is it quiet? This is so often overlooked. When building your own PC, you can make it silent. How about a Top Ten quiet off-the-shelf computers article?

I totally agree with b166er - PCs at the moment are all pretty much similar and commodity items, so the noise level and power consumption are becoming more important that the 0.1 extra frame in Crysis. I would love to see noise levels on each PC, NAS and laptop review - i.e. things with fans that might run most of the time.

Agree too. Whilst you may get a cheaper pc and a warranty but given how many builders go to the wall this is of dubious benefit these days. - You get a system built to a price with, I would say, little regard to quality of the components and the end use you may want. Building your own allows to to EXACTLY specify end use and hence component choice.

I guess buyers of these systems "just want a cheap pc" - and will doubtless get what they buy ;-)

Agree with all the three comments.

I still build my owm desktops so I can get the exact specification I want, using components from the manufacturers I want.

Also some manufacturers are still wont to rip us off for slight increases in HDD space or memory so we can avoid that and reduce cost disparity.

My current i920/GTX285 system is whispering along beside me as I type this.