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I personaly like to build my own. I know everything is setup correctly and no cheep hardware has snuck in on me.

I like building 'em myself. Cheaper, I can pick exactly what I want, and there's a bit of pride in it.

I like to build my own, but it's been 5 years since I've built my last machine - and that was one the best machines I've ever used (K6 500MHz/192MB/cant remember the mb): no glitches, no OS reinstalls, not a single problem.. My brother is still running it back in Serbia.

After that I went mostly factory-customized.

I have built PCs for myself in the past. But the last one I purchased off the shelf. I have realized there is no point building & wasting time for saving a very little amount. Better to buy a branded one (DELL/Compaq etc) and they put the same hardware that I'd buy myself. In the end if I buy branded I am paying a nominal extra for all the effort I have to do to build etc.

I like building PCs myself and sometimes modifying or taking parts from second or third-hand machines that I get cheap or for free.

I like to do that by myself mostly because of the parts
you can chose whatever you want
save some many
and after all learn something

najum wrote:I have built PCs for myself in the past. But the last one I purchased off the shelf. I have realized there is no point building & wasting time for saving a very little amount. Better to buy a branded one (DELL/Compaq etc) and they put the same hardware that I'd buy myself. In the end if I buy branded I am paying a nominal extra for all the effort I have to do to build etc.

I disagree with your statement about the price difference.

I built my current PC in September using the best stuff available in this area at a decent price, it cost me about $2400 all up. In november I started seeing a decent ammount of AMD64 processors in the shop systems, these ranged from $2200-$3200 for half my CPU (I got the dual core, these places only sold single cores), at most half my RAM (1gb is the largest you usually see over here anyway so thats not odd) and at most 160gb HDD (I got a 320gb one). I believe during that month there was a single PC which had my graphics card in the shop windows and a couple in the catalogues you get sent.

I think I got an excellent deal considering.

I build my own PCs. It's cheaper, and like others have said, you can pick exactly what you want.

You also learn a lot by building your comps (at least the first time you do it).

when you get factory customized you get hardware support all in one place.

Something fails and they fix it. your paying for that support.

I used to have time to build and maintain my own systems but now it's just not worth the time for me.

Yeah i like it to build it by myself becouse you can add what you want not like in factory builded, take it or go away :-) And it's more fun to build :-)

Building it myself. It is way cheaper then buying an already-made or factory customized. You also have fun building it

well i had a computer which was put togheter in a shop... acctually i still have... well now i own a laptop, which i would be able to put togheter myself i think...

Few words, of course biuld it myself, becouse u can choose what u need, and what u get.. Simple ;o)

My dad is a hardware vendor so naturally I build it all myself

note: I don't get lots of free stuff and since I don't make a lot of money my computer is a 1.7 celeron with a geforce 4 mx 440... not the best i'll admit

it did only cost me $0 cause I picked it all out from leftover stock

I love my dad...

Can you pick me some AMD XP 2200+ or lover version? :-)