Building a Z70Va from barebone

I can pick up the barebone notebook for $950 shipped.

I have some knowledge in building desktops but never a notebook, if I were to build it would it save me money overall?

Do barebone notebooks come with anything at all?

Thanks to a member for posting this site it should definately help

http://www.synnex.com/sb/sb_byon.html

But how much do you guys figure it would cost for this hardware

1GB Ram $100?
100GB HD ???
128MB ATI X700 PCI Express $110
Wireless-G & Gigabit Lan
DVD & CDRW Combo Drive $140??
Windows XP $100?

Total Approx $1500??

Can someone help with these numbers and comment if this is a good idea.

Thankyou very much

 

The barbone for the z70va consists of:

Motherboard
Chassis
LCD
x700 GPU
Gigabit LAN

The 1gb RAM should be around that price, 100gb HD depends on speed.

The wireless card you can choose, 2200, 2915, Broadcom, Atheros, etc.

The DVD/CDRW should be around there but remember you only have only have 2 options, unless you want to install the bezel yourself.

 

You probably won't save that much money.., and besides, you'll only have manufacture warranty on the parts.

If I were you, I decide on a configuration and then see how much the parts cost in total...
if a local supplier has a similar configuration for cheaper OR within $100, then I'd definitely get them to build it instead.

Warranty never hurt anyone...

 

I'm looking into the same system. I kind of want to build it myself, for fun.

What is the difference on the warranty? Either way, you'll still be covered on some warranty, right?

 

Yea, either way it will be covered but you just won't need to worry about whether its coming or not, or when it is, as lets say the RAM fails all of a sudden. You'll need to send it back for a 1-2 week RMA, or you can tell your reseller, they give you a new one while they RMA it.

Just an example - of course it won't happen to everyone(I hope )

 

Thanks for the clarification.

Help me to fully understand, please.

Lets say I buy from a decent reseller. My ram ,or Hard drive fails. Will that reseller talk me through the diagnostics to ascertain exactly which bit of hardware is faulty?

One that determination is made, will they simply ship me the new part, so I can install it myself, with a minimum of downtime? Or will they insist that I ship the whole notebook back to them?

This will have an impact on uptime for me.

Is this how most resellers work? Do ISTNC, Geared2play, etc work like this?

 

Yea, they'll help as much as they can.

I'm not particularly sure how it works accurately, but I'm assuming you bought the barebone and the parts at different places(which is often cheaper) but if you bought it all from the same place, then that changes the situation.

You should fire off a few emails to inquire about it.

 

Thanks. I think I'll call a couple of places tomorrow.

I sent an email to an Asus Premier Partner reseller last night, and the response was rude and unhelpful.

I guess I better stick to phone calls so that I can get a better read on how the businesses treat their customers.

(My bad experience wasn't from either place that I mentioned in my post above).
Vespadaddy

 

Thanks everyone for the insightful help.

Vespadaddy, we should keep in touch since we have the same goal in mind.

 

Hey Miro,

I decided to go the full warranty route and bought a fully assembled, ready to go Z70Va from ISTNC. I just ordered yesterday. I'll post a thread about the buying experience when it arrives.

Vespadaddy

 

Count me in for building, just order my part today
Z70va - barebone
Pentium 740 1.73 mhz 533
1024MB ram 533 Mhz DDR2
60GB 5400 <--- no 7200 to keep the heat down
dvd/cd-rw (i'm on budget XD)
intel wireless 2915 a/b/g (migth have the number wrong cauz i type the spec from my memory)
Final price.. AHHHH.. lets just say cheaper than you all would think.
If i get the red devil i'll just send it to Asus i guess, since i live in WA. not far from cali.

 

yes, 2915 support a/b/g, you are right.
Just curious whether you can ask for testing from them before shipping to you so that you will not have any bad memory, red ghosting problem, bad battery, dead pixel, .......

 

From where i order, probably not. My mem will be from Newegg, so that one is covered. For the notebook and screen itself, i'll just spam asus if it's bad.

That's my tactic. Bold and annoying.

 

Good luck aphirat, hope you can get a excellent part from them.
Cheers

 

Just wondering if you guys want me to make a post on how i assmble, it with pretty pictures and all. But then again, we have a bunch of z70 series review already XD.

 

There's already assembly guides in the FAQ, but by all means, go ahead

 

We can never get enough pictures