Frugality doesn’t always pay – Just buy Dell
After my business bought several Dells in the past few months I decided that I would try and save a few bucks and just do an upgrade on the couple of home machines that were lagging. Bad idea.
What I bought:
• Chaintech motherboard
• 1GB of DDR 400Mhz
These were purchased in combos with multiple rebates from TigerDirect so the total cost was only $120.
However, I have spent about 12 hours of pure frustration as this setup would only post about 50% of the time. Finally I believe I narrowed down the problem to a simple jumper setting and some BIOS settings that were absolutely unintuitive.
Yes I probably saved $700 per machine but I’m not sure if it was worth it. I wouldn’t recommend Chaintech primarily because their documentation is pretty lousy. Not to mention I don’t have the beautiful Dell 24″ LCD at home. 
