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There are many advantages to putting a PC together by yourself. For starters, you get to hand select your partsall of the parts. The size, style, and color of the computer case, the wattage of the power supply, the type of motherboard and processor, the amount and speed of the memory, the type of graphics card, sound card, size and speed of the hard drive, the type of operating system and other software you put on your new system, everything is up to you! You won't have to compromise on anything. The only real limitation will be how much your wallet can bear. This level of choice is only available to those who build their own computers. Yes, Dell, Gateway, and other PC makers offer buyers lots of choices to customize the system they build for you when you order one from them, but your choices are limited to their range of components, which doesn't begin to cover what is available to you when you decide to build your own box. In the final analysis, buying all of your own parts and building your own PC is a process that can result in a product as individualized and special as you are. It can be an extension of you, your style, your preferences. You can build a very inexpensive, perfectly functional, no-frills, utilitarian-gets-the-job-done PC which looks a lot like the usual "beige box" systems that used to predominate the retail computer market. On the other hand, you can build a totally customized, colorful, gleaming, "screamer" of a machine which glows with neon, has top-of-the-line everything inside, including a custom, silent, water-cooling system (yes, I said water cooling), digital LCD temperature gauges, and neon-lit, multiple cooling fans, yet is a barely audible "silent PC." It's entirely up to you. In my book, this is the single biggest advantage of all. No settling for anything you really don't want to have here!

Another advantage to building your own PC is having the option of putting your money where it matters to you most. For example, you might want to opt out of buying the most expensive RAM and purchase less expensive RAM, putting that savings toward a higher end graphics card or a bigger hard drive. After all, the difference between the two types of RAM will only be measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second) which is not discernable by the human eye. However, the difference between how long it takes for a program to load into that memory and launch from a fast, 7200 RPM hard drive with, say, an 8MB on-board memory cache, versus how long

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