Whoever said it was cheaper to build your own... (Score 1)

cause they were lying. Or they didn't foresee the addiction of being able to customize your computer with whatever you you want. Once you build your computer there will always be something you can upgrade to make it faster or something you should have spent more money on the first time around. That 800 Mhz was fine.....for a while, then everyone started having 1.4 Ghz chips and suddenly you were the last on the block kid with a tricycle while everyone else was riding a BMX. And it doesn't stop there. Your 8 gigs of mp3s was fine...for a while(anyone seen Dog City, by Jim Henson? small reference here), until the 60 gig hard drives came out and then suddenly you had the 8-track of collections, while everyone else was listening to CDs.

I'm warning you, once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. You'll have ide cables coming out your dresser drawers and spare motherboads in your bathroom. You gotta ask yourself is it worth saving a few hundred bucks and having a kickass machine at all times? I'm not sure, but I'm building a building fool and I just can't stop.

P.S. newegg.com rules!