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Originally posted by gekko
Also, the whole build your own PC and save money is a bit misleading. Most of the people saving big time cash are the ones who use a ton of parts from their old PC, and the ones who buy cheapo P4 cards like the 1.6a which have the potential to be overclocked to 2.4ghz.
Look at my computer, if i were to build it, i'd be saving at most $200, but probably less than that. Why? I got all new parts. Now if I kept a monitor, bought a 1.6a P4 and overclocked it instead of the 2.53ghz, etc., I could've saved thousands.
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Well you are right that you don't save at the time you build it first time. The thing about self-built computers is that you can keep it up to pace by building it smartly, and then just getting a few upgrades and make it last for a very long time, as much as buying 3 prebuilt computers.