Custom Built PC - Overview

Overview

Reasons to custom build a personal computer include:

• To determine what one wants and needs in regard to quality, price, and availability;
• To make a machine customized to the user's needs
• To recycle an older system, or to upgrade to a more modern motherboard, video card, CPU, and RAM;
• To have a high end machine for gaming, multimedia, or other demanding tasks;
• avoiding the advertising links, trial software, and other commission-driven additions and modifications that increasingly are made to mass-market computers prior to their being shipped; and
• being able to make modifications to the original build at a later date with little hassle.

There are also intangible benefits, such as learning how to design and build a machine as well as the sense of accomplishment.

For the general public, however, the lack of technical support and warranty protection (other than what may be provided by the individual component and software manufacturers) may be a significant disadvantage. Someone capable of assembling a PC will most likely have sufficient knowledge and technical know-how to maintain their system, and will require little "tech support" from manufacturers.