Building or Buying?

[kingz]

😕
micronpc has the following system for sale:
AMD 1.2GHZ PROCESSOR
128MB 266MHZ DDR-1 DIMM
DUAL 40GB ATA100 7200RPM HARDDRIVE W/RAID IDE CONTROLLER CARD
12X10X32X8X CD-RW/DVD COMBO
1.44MB 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE INTEGRATED
64MB DDR NVIDIA GEFORCE2 ULTRA AGP CARD
19IN MICRON 910EX (18IN VIEWABLE .26MM DP)
CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER LIVE VALUE
ALTEC LANSING.ATP-5
56K V.90 PCI MODEM
SMC 10/100 WOL PCI NETWORK CARD
LOGITECH WHEEL MOUSE
ATX MINI TOWER W/FRONT USB
MICROSOFT WINDOWS ME
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 SB
NEXT BUSINESS DAY ON-SITE 1ST. YEAR (DT)

That is probably cheaper then building the same mobo. if price is in favor of buy.....whats better.....buy or build? pros/cons?

 

[Yzzim]

Building lets you specify each piece of hardware you put in your computer and most people do it for fun and to save some money.
If you don't know much about building a system OR you'd have to go out and buy Office 2000, WindowsME, and some other software then buying an OEM system is cheaper.

[edit]How much is Micron selling that system for?[/edit]

 

[kingz]

oh yea.......forgot the price. $2700. even w/o software...building would probably top out the micron right?

 

[urbantechie]

Building. And alot of us can take care of the software for ya 😉.

 

[Yzzim]

I calculated the cost of the parts on pricewatch and a couple other sites and got about $2500 w/shipping. A couple of the products were rough estimates though.

Guess it depends on if you'd feel comfortable building the system or not.

Good luck 🙂