I'll admit I did spend a lot of money on these computers than if I bought from Dell or HP (or from Tigerdirect) but one has run for seven years without a single problem. I bought my last two computers from Polywell (they're a small outfit near the San Francisco airport). Buy the computer from a custom build shop. This is what you'll have to do with the computer you build yourself, so you shouldn't mind this step.Ģ.
#EDITREADY PC INSTALL#
Then, simply install Windows when you get the computer.
#EDITREADY PC FULL#
Buy the computer from a reputable big-name dealer, but make sure you get it configured so it comes with a full Windows install disc. The post about avoiding the crud that many brand-name manufacturers load onto their PCs is quite important: you DO want to avoid that.ġ. So, you may save some money, or you may not. It's not quite the same, I realize, because the car parts are sold through a spare parts channel that has huge markups, whereas most PC parts are sold through a more efficient channel, but you'll still be paying retail for each part.
Remember that you will be buying each component at retail and so you may find out that the result is a little like trying to build a car by buying the individual parts on the open market.
I realize that building a PC from off-the-shelf parts is not rocket science, but I also know that you can (and will) spend many days figuring out some incompatibility or problem or, worse, will NOT find the problem right away because it has to do with inadequate cooling or something else that doesn't show up right away.Īlso, you may be able to save money, but then again you may not. And, that's what you will be building: your first prototype of the new design. I am an electrical engineer by training, and have been in the computer business for a long time, but I would never build my own computer.īecause I would only build one every few years and, as an engineer, I know that the prototype is always full of bugs.
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