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Originally Posted by MrHunters
if you got someone handy near ya, building one yourself i feel is always the best bang for your buck. You may pay a wee bit more but your are assured quality performing parts. Dell towers these days are throw aways after a few years. With one you built you can get more miles and upgrading is much easier. (and cheaper than replacing) in the long run.
only down side is if anything fails you have to deal with the OEM's instead of the dells/compaqs etc..
If you want some help shoot me a pm with what you want you use your computer for and what your budget is.
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That is the thing. For pure $$ I cannot beat a d ell on price.
BUT If you want to be in a position where every 12-18 months or so you do a major upgrade to a system the home building is where it is at...
May 05 I bought a new Motherboard Asus A8n-e, AMD 64 3200 CPU, IGB Mem, 160 GB Sata drive. I had a 17" Hitachi LCD, DVDRW, decent case, etc. Aug 06 I bought a AMD X2 4400 and I practically doubled the speed and will run this as my primary for another year.
My backup is a XP2500, who's backup is a P4 2.8, who's backup is a XP1800, who's backup is a Althlon 1200, who's backup is a P4 2.4 (boat computer
) - Hmmmm - and I still have that XP3200 Chip
