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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 6088641" data-attributes="member: 2642">-shrug-Whether it's D&amp;D rules or computers, I'm such an inveterate tinkerer that by the time I got an out-of-the-box Dell or HP machine set up the way I wanted it - if that turned out to be possible in the first place - I wouldn't have saved any time. Probably not money either - at this point I'd need some kind of external RAID box for my hard drives if I bought anything short of a thousand-dollar gaming rig. Far better to do what I just did a few weeks ago and spend $50 on a case, maybe $200 on a motherboard, processor and RAM, and reuse the power supply, Windows license, hard drives and externals from my old system, and spend a couple hours putting it together. (It also helps that I think the latter is *fun*, at least up to a point.) You can get warranties on the parts too, so that objection doesn't apply.If your temperament differs greatly from mine, you might be better off getting a name-brand system. Someone must be buying them. But I still think putting your own machine together is at least worth considering for anyone who isn't totally hopeless with technology.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 6088641, member: 2642"] -shrug- Whether it's D&D rules or computers, I'm such an inveterate tinkerer that by the time I got an out-of-the-box Dell or HP machine set up the way I wanted it - if that turned out to be possible in the first place - I wouldn't have saved any time. Probably not money either - at this point I'd need some kind of external RAID box for my hard drives if I bought anything short of a thousand-dollar gaming rig. Far better to do what I just did a few weeks ago and spend $50 on a case, maybe $200 on a motherboard, processor and RAM, and reuse the power supply, Windows license, hard drives and externals from my old system, and spend a couple hours putting it together. (It also helps that I think the latter is *fun*, at least up to a point.) You can get warranties on the parts too, so that objection doesn't apply. If your temperament differs greatly from mine, you might be better off getting a name-brand system. [I]Someone[/I] must be buying them. But I still think putting your own machine together is at least worth considering for anyone who isn't totally hopeless with technology. [/QUOTE]

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