Originally Posted by Breaks

Well for starters you wouldn't be paying for labour charges as you'd be building it yourself, secondly, I priced up my machine, or rather looked for a pre-built system of the same spec at the time I bought it and after pricing it up seeing how much it would cost if built myself to how much it would cost getting it pre-built, I was saving at minimum a hundred or two.

The only problem with building a PC yourself is if one component goes, it's an absolute nightmare to problem solve if you don't have another machine to test your hardware in. Plus returning components individually can be a bugger and time consuming.

A good idea of how much you'd save would be to spec up a custom machine with a site that builds them for you, see the total price after spec'ing, then spec it out from a website in which you buy the components yourself and assemble them yourself. See the difference in price.

Originally Posted by Iluvpenguins

My computer was built by me,my first build,i just bought parts,put em together(i am not an idiot,i know where goes where),its really simple man,you just gotta know where stuff goes and you're set,alotta fun too