Has anybody put together a system from a do-it-yourself kit?

[MaxDepth]

I was shopping around in a Sam's Club this morning (the one in South Point, Ohio is pitiful! - Thank God I'm only here visiting.) and spotted a barebones kit box by the name of CPU Builders. The originating company is Stratitec.

The box in particular (for $199.98) contains a Midtower ATX w/ 300watt pwr spply, SiS735 mobo (but does not list manufacturer), S3 Savage 4 (32mb), keyboard, mouse, and diskette drive. All I need is to provide hard drive, OS & software, and CPU.

Has anybody heard of them? Any quality issues (I worry about the unspecified mobo)? This would help me to put together a home system for my parents, but of course, I'm wary of such a simple solution.

Thanks.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

hmmm... that dosn't seem like too good of a deal. I went check out the hot deals forums for some nice cheaply-priced barebones systems.

 

[Walliser]

I agree, I think you can do better.

The mobo is a SiS, type it into some searche engine and see what you can find. Actually, make sure you check the stats on that board! Nothing worse than an oudated board. The graphics card is nothing I am familiar with.

I built my PC for approx $600 and it's pretty decent, at least I beleive so.
IMHO might be quite a piece of crap. But then again, check on the web.

 

[gopunk]

you'll need ram too.

i would personally research and pick components myself. better systems come out of having total control over what goes into them.

 

[UberNeuman]

Hot Deals would be a better way to go: such as this barebones for about $50.00

barebones rig.............

 

[ricerx]

for that price, i'd rather build it from scratch. from what you listed, i don't really see how it could be worth $199 but that's just my opinion.