From what I've gathered, it's still more cost effective to go with a pre-built system because the big guys (Dell, Gateway, etc.) get some huge discounts on the parts by buying in bulk that the money you save assembling it yourself is negligible to non-extant. However, this sounds like a way to share the discounts from the bulk purchases...Or is it?
In any case, I'm not impressed with the cases, power supplies, and such people like Dell or Gateway tend to ship with their systems. They're obviously the lowest of the low in terms of quality.
From what I've gathered, it's still more cost effective to go with a pre-built system because the big guys (Dell, Gateway, etc.) get some huge discounts on the parts by buying in bulk that the money you save assembling it yourself is negligible to non-extant. However, this sounds like a way to share the discounts from the bulk purchases...Or is it?
In any case, I'm not impressed with the cases, power supplies, and such people like Dell or Gateway tend to ship with their systems. They're obviously the lowest of the low in terms of quality.
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