ok my mate has a computer which is old and slow,now a friend of his at work has suggested buying a book on building your own pc and him building it

now what he wants to know is is it cheaper him bying and building it himself he wants a quick computer with good graphics as he plays a lot of games on it

or does he just go shed £500 in pc world on quite a good spec 1

help

 

for a GOOD spec pc, it will be cheaper to build.

 

building a computer is easy.

you'll need

motherboard
processor
ram
hard drive
cd-rom/dvd drive
fans
power supply unit
xp/vista disk

heres a pic of the pc i built for my sister

cost me £100




I built this pc 4years ago wen i was 15..i was a bit lime green mad..lol.cost me £650.im still using the same pc now!

 

your capable of building your own pcs yet you still have the same pc 4 years later?
Or have you upgraded some parts?

P.s this thread is 3 years old

 

Lol no the point is that my pc has lasted because i built it..all these manufactured pcs dont last after their warentee expires!

 

You didnt answer my question, im just interested thats all

 

why would a home built PC be more reliale than manufacturer built? youre still using the same cheap shit components.

 

And it still lasted 4 years?

 

Lol.well it does the job never had any problems with it and for the serious stuff i got my dell xps

 

Well presumably if you are building your own PC, you wouldn't use the "same cheap shit components" you spanner, that would be a bit daft wouldn't it.

 

for example then...

how many people do you think buy the cheap 40quid motherboards rather than the 120quid ones...?

i saw some statistics somewhere once and the cheap and cheerful components made up something like 90% of the component sales

 

I built my own PC 5 years ago and i'm still using it today. I've only had to replace the power supply once and i've upgraded my ram modules. I would suggest that you don't buy from PC World as the deals are never really good deals and that on the face of it building your own bit by bit looks a lot cheaper but by the time you've paid P&P for the seperate parts and the components themselves it all adds to pretty much the same IMO...

Try looking at some of these websites which have some good options;

Misco - www.misco.co.uk
Novatech - www.novatech.co.uk
AUT Direct - www.autdirect.co.uk
Overclockers - www.overclockers.co.uk

Hope this helps.

 

I think building your own pc is good for when you want to perform a certain task, gaming or video encoding as examples. I you just want a quickish PC to browse the net, type documents etc.. then something like this is decent enough http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...4&category_oid=

It comes with a 19"TFT and genuine windows software which has got to be worth £150 on there own. I find www.scan.co.uk sell decent branded items and as Galbally said, not all motherboards are the same.

Its all easy plugging the bits in and installing the base drivers, but if the PC crashes and you dont have the knowledge to diagnose and repair the fault then your stuck.

 

its not just the components but the upgradeability later on down the line.

build your own if u want a decent pc lol

 

the other alternative is to get www.pcoption.co.uk to build you a custom spec 1 and there prices are pretty good!

 

But those statistics are most likely due to people just replacing things on their Dell/HP/whatever workstation as and when they die, with like for like replacements.
I doubt very much those stats are only for system builders, and in answer to your first question, I would expect most people that build their own PC would buy the best value for money motherboard for their application.
Not necesarily the cheapest or the most expensive, but the best spec for the best price with reliability in mind.