New PCs - Results and testing

[mrbios]

The phrase "cheap for a reason" springs to mind. Hopefully your gamble pays off though.

 

looks as though it has!

 

After their first months hammering by the students I've asked for 2 of the teachers to gather feedback:

6th formers and year 11s in particular said how much quicker they are, the things they do feel smoother and they don't sit around waiting for them as much, also how much cooler the rooms were. We even had one teacher come to us complaining that the PCs weren't on, when in actual fact the monitors were just turned off! (that's how quiet they are, a room of 30 and he didn't realise they were on!)

 

No failures so far, apart from 2 some idiot bent the cpu socket pins on while building them, though it could be one of 3 people so i'll not point fingers ¬_¬

 

I'd highly recommend a build like this to anyone looking to go with custom build machines rather than pre-builts.