The satisfaction of building your own computer is great, but sadly is not cheaper anymore.
The price of paying for Windows had risen the price of building your own PC.
However, if you know what you are doing you can build a nice product yourself.
If you don't know what you are doing, buy a Dell for cheap.
2007-07-08 05:03:10
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answered by Anonymous
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The advantages of building v/s brand, there are so many I could type here all day.
If you build, you get what you want, not the crap they give you. You will know and understand your machine. You will have a superior product, and a somewhat understanding of how it all works.
Building a computer is really not very difficult, probably the hardest thing to do is find the right pins on the motherboard for the front case switches, and the motherboard books shows you that. Just follow instructions. I built my first one some years ago in approx. 5 hours, now after doing hundreds of them it takes me between one and two hours depending on components installed.
Also, I agree with a previous post concerning repair, brand names are cheap made computers resulting in far more problems than self assembled units.
Upgrading brand names can also be very expensive, and you may find you cannot even upgrade them in the manner you wish.
Brand names always have a limitation on some major component, that ads and sales persons will never tell you. They always have at least one weakness, and some have many.
I totally agree with both previous posts, well with the exception of "buy a Dell", but cheap they are so if thats what you want, that's what you'll get....................
2007-07-08 14:22:04
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answered by Frank N 5
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These days it is a little more expensive to build then it is to buy, but when you build you will at least know what is in the machine. Also you won't have to deal with a tower that isn't built to accommodate upgrading. Most of the "off of the shelf" computers do not have extra bays for hard drives, floppies, etc. And they come with way to much crap,(advertising, etc) installed.
I have been a computer tech for quite a few years and have not owned a name brand computer for a long time. I would rather spend a little extra and build someting worht owning instead of one of those nasty things from Dell or HP, etc.
One more thought. Most of the systems that I repair are "name barnd". Very seldom do I get to work on a hand built machine. They just seem to run better.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture.
If you need help in building, there are plenty of sites that have that info. Just do a little surfing, you'll find what you need.
2007-07-08 12:12:15
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answered by Ron M 7
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