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Originally Posted by AltonKelsey
I build my own, once every 6-7 years and try not to spend more than 600.
Been working out very well. Only upgrade to old Betsy was a $100 graphics card a few years ago , that runs my 40" 4k screen + 2 others without a hiccup.
Latest and greatest is mostly hype , for 99.9% of the public.
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I used to build all of my own as well. My 7yo PC I currently use was the first pre-built I ever bought (it was an Alienware Area 51).
Nowadays, you might save 100-200 building it yourself...I priced out the parts in the Corsair One and it came out to about that kind of saving if I had built it myself. I wouldn't have been able to get that kind of case, small form factor, and probably would definitely not have been able to make a machine as quiet as the reviews all say this one is, even under load.
Plus I get a 2yr warranty on the entire system, and don't have to deal with individual manufacturers if a part I built with fails.
So, weighing all this, plus the time and work involved in ordering all the parts and putting the thing together, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth saving a couple of hundred dollars to do it myself.
But I hear you...I used to enjoy building my own...
