Custom PC vs. Prebuilt PC

"no one to help you build your system" That's a lie; that's why they made this awesome thing called the computerforum.com :)

And of course that pre-built PC is gona be cheaper, it's an emachine.. lol
It really depends on what you're doing.. If you build something like my build and you spend 700$ (that's including 150$ 22" monitor i have) You're going to spend pretty much the same if you were to go with a pre-built. It does suck about ddr2, but that's the way it goes...
 
This one is pretty good also, but it just covers the major steps.

Part 1 of several.
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It will almost never come out cheaper to buy a pc.

Plus, you know it's cool as hell to say... "Yeah, I built it."
 
I built my last PC for about $1400 including a brand new monitor. The same specs I could have bought for about $1,000 including monitor. I bought name brand parts though, and I got a 900w Antec tru power supply.

Building it is not always cheaper, plus the second you start comparing parts and you start to think, well $20 more for this part here and $15 bucks more for that part there adds up to a lot more than your initial budget.

The greatest thing about building a PC is that you built it and you chose what parts go into it.

One of the greatest things about buying a prebuilt system is that it was engineered to run the way it was built, so you are less likely to have hardware incompatibilities or stability problems. That is not always the case.

There are more pros and cons to it, but that is an old subject that has been debated here many times.
 
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