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Custom PC

Should You Build Your Own PC, Order A Custom PC, Or Have A Friend Help You?

Executive summary about Custom PC by Steven Stoddard

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Build Your Own

If you have a personality that enjoys learning, and want to strive to get the most knowledge, usability, and usefulness out of your PC, and yourself as possible you should seriously consider building your own PC.

Pros:

• You’ll know your computer better than anyone else.
• You can learn a lot from building your own computer, like repairing, troubleshooting, and upgrading PCs.
• You get bragging rights for building your own. (You may know one or two people that have built their own PC, but the rest of your friends will be amazed)
• You can easily make room for future upgrades, and when the time comes you’ll know how to upgrade your computer.
• You’ll get a good bang for the buck when putting together your own computer, and if you have a lot of buck you’ll get a lot of bang.

Cons:

• Any problems you encounter will have to be solved by yourself and a clever use of the world wide web.
• There’s a chance that some parts you order will be DOA (Dead on Arrival) which means you’ll have to send them back and wait for a replacement part
• Operating Systems aren’t cheap, unless you’re going with Linux.

Ordering a Dell

This option is good for those that simply don’t have time to mess around with all this techno-stuff, and would rather just get on with using their computer, not learning anything new.

Pros:

• It’s an easy way to get exactly what you want, without any hassle or problems.
• Tech Support will always be there when you have a problem.
• Comes with a warranty.

Cons:

• If you have a problem, you can’t fix it without voiding your warranty, and if you don’t have a warrant you’ll probably spend big bucks at Geek Squad getting your computer ‘fixed’.
• Recommended upgrades, hardware, software on the website is extremely expensive, and usually not needed, or do not offer the performance increase for the price.
• Pre-built systems usually cost more.
• Sometimes it’s hard to find your exact system specs if you want to upgrade your PC yourself or if you do certain hardware may not be compatible with your manufactured system.

Using Your Trusty Friend

If you have a tech savvy friend that knows more about computers than you do, you could try asking him to help you build a system, it’s a good way to get the benefits of a custom PC.

Pros:

• Your friend is probably the easiest and most trustworthy tech support you can find.
• A good second judgment to correct any mistakes you’ve made or are about to make.
• You also get many of the benefits from the Building Your Own section

Cons:

• Friend may be lazy and not want to help you.
• Your friend could lack the knowledge needed to build a complete system, and will get you stuck halfway through the process.
• He may be unreliable in helping you with the computer.