From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 23 14:59:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4A4E1573C for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 11265 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 1999 21:59:37 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 11242 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jul 1999 21:59:36 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 1999 21:59:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3798E5C7.3B35F8BD@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:59:35 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roy Bettle Cc: rick hamell , ML Duke , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware References: <37983F26.A7F059B6@uswest.net> <37989EFD.B029641D@criterion-group.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roy Bettle wrote: > > You might also check into Antec: http://www.antec-inc.com/ > > We've had a great deal of luck with their cases (we've used them for about 4 > years now); rolled edges, no supports in stupid places, reliable and quiet > power supplies, etc. > > Hope it helps. The cases seem okay. The website has very little information about the case designs, though. I'm left with way too many questions. What concerns me is their use of what appears to be unprotected steel (it's shiny), odd case fan sizes, and a limited power supply wattage. No AC switch on the PS, either. > P.S. You may or may not want to actually buy from them. We typically use > their site to locate the case we want (by mfr. prod. #), and then buy through > http://www.buycomp.com BuyComp.com must simply have NO profit margin on these > cases because we consistently by BELOW manufacturer's list (ie- less than Antec > can - or will - sell them to us for). Buy.com's stock is supplied from Ingram Micro and a few other very large mail-order-only vendors. The vendors they use buy parts in huge quantities. They can mark up a sizable profit and still be well under list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message