Build your own PC ? (How to Build the Perfect Computer)

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Product:	How to Build the Perfect Computer
Date:	13/06/01 (74 review reads)
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Advantages: not having to spend hours trudging through computer fairs looking for components for the right price

Disadvantages: There's not that much difference from building one to buying one already built price wise

Some people, are tempted every now and again to build their own PC. I ask is this a good Idea?. Well there are those that do insist that it's not that difficult and they can build it there self cheaper than buying a PC from a computer store. Is this true, the answer is no. Those who think it would be cheaper to build there own are generally wrong. For example the equipment you need to build a middle of the range PC.( The prices of the components listed below are from computer fairs) would be as follows.

1) a motherboard,=£80
2) a case,=£30
3) a 800mhz processor,=£90
4) a sound card,=£12
5) a 16mb video card,=£75
6) floppy drive,=£15
7) cdrom player,=£30
8) 128mb Ram,=£35
9) speakers=£25,
10) 17inch monitor=£180
11) 20Gig hard drive=£75
12) Windows M.E. O/S=£80 to £90

Adding all the prices together the cost would be around £727.00 so you would find that it would be difficult to build a PC for less than £700, and of course if you foul things up you could have no warranty to fall back on.

****UPDATE****

As you can see from the specs above, this would be what is known as a budget or middle of the range system.

If this was a top of the range system with top of the range components, and all the components was bought from a computer store and not a computer fair, the prices would be very different.

E.G. An AGP ATi All in Wonder 128 32mb video card would cost around £133.00.
And a decent sound card say a PCI SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum, would cost around another £155.00.

Then there is the processor a say for example a Pentium III 1000/133 MHz cpu which would cost around £250.00, (and then theres the pentium 4,) and you could go on.

As you can see just these three items would cost around £538.00. So if you was to replace the components from the budget/middle of the range system, with the top of the range components, this would then
make the price shoot upto £1,085 and to buy the same system already built would cost around £1,200.

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