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<blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1667771" data-attributes="member: 13654">Yep.&nbsp; But that's the nature of the beast.&nbsp; On one hand nobody wants to spend a lot of money.&nbsp; They desperately want to get a lot of computer cheaply.&nbsp; If their older computer is at least adequate or tolerable in some areas one can compromise the &quot;spend money on it until it hurts&quot; notion by say, taking ram from an old machine that will work in the new machine.Depends on HOW old we're talking about and how low-end those components are compared to what you want or is available.&nbsp; this is not a science, it's an art.&nbsp; I've salvaged ram plenty of times, but never hard drives until recently(only because the reason for moving up was often a unrecoverable HD crash.)I've also sworn before never to build my own machine again because there are too many good systems out there at cheap prices, but my latest machine I once again assembled myself.&nbsp; I have had too many instances where I've fought with one thing or another about a system when putting it together, but I find that I must like the fight because I keep doing it against my better judgement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D+1, post: 1667771, member: 13654"] Yep. But that's the nature of the beast. On one hand nobody wants to spend a lot of money. They desperately want to get a lot of computer cheaply. If their older computer is at least adequate or tolerable in some areas one can compromise the "spend money on it until it hurts" notion by say, taking ram from an old machine that will work in the new machine. Depends on HOW old we're talking about and how low-end those components are compared to what you want or is available. this is not a science, it's an art. I've salvaged ram plenty of times, but never hard drives until recently(only because the reason for moving up was often a unrecoverable HD crash.) I've also sworn before never to build my own machine again because there are too many good systems out there at cheap prices, but my latest machine I once again assembled myself. I have had too many instances where I've fought with one thing or another about a system when putting it together, but I find that I must like the fight because I keep doing it against my better judgement. [/QUOTE]

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