Should you buy OEM PC?
I strongly advice you not to buy most OEM systems. Specially Dell and HP. I will explain why.
I strongly advice you not to buy most OEM systems. Specially Dell and HP. I will explain why.
Imagine you are tough on money but would like to buy computer. And you see relatively cheap OEM system with say Intel Core i5-4690, 8GB DDR3-1600 memory. You think that i5 has specific specs and should work with same speed everywhere. But after you bought it you will be unpleasantly surprised.
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ESkYHzT8LU
As you can see in this video, after they moved CPU and memory to different motherboard and power supply, performance of system increases a lot. Basically, Intel allow to fine tune power package and while it will be same Core i5-4690 it will work much slower in such OEM system with tuned down power package.
Firstly, I blame Intel for this situation. The [...Read More]