[buckaroo]

Gotta love this site! Appreciate you checking in and sending along the links. They've been duly bookmarked...will be checking them out.

While I'm at it, any recommendations for sites that may give a primer on building your own? I checked out Smart Computing site and they apparently have an entire issue dedicated to buidling your own, but you have to be a subscriber to read it on line.

Thanks again.

[Jballou]

Newegg.com and MWave.com are almost exactly the same. Their catalogs are laid out almost the same, they carry almost the same items, and their prices are the same.

[brushmaster1]

I always build my own, BUT...

I have one little problem...I'm unemployed.

When I fried the mobo and CPU in my latest machine, I had only one choice.

I cannabalized my wife's Gateway 450. I used her mobo and CPU and case...everything else is from my old machine. I eliminated all the proprietary Gateway stuff from the BIOS (Phoenix...yucccchh!), and now have a really strange hybrid.

[BML]

It's too bad that it is not as easy to build a laptop/notebook.

I'd build one if it was.

[deuce]

Man I can't believe this thread is still going. Laptops are the one thing that is just easier to buy already made. You will get a product that is smaller, lighter and maybe cheaper....... but you have to sift through all the crap that is associated with prebuilt computers... yuk.