
Originally Posted by
Roger Clark
Frustrated by poor reliability, poor performance, and poor customer service of broken PCs from the big names, about a couple of years ago I started building my own. It was pretty intimidating the first time, but in the end it is pretty simple to assemble, and I get better performance than a big company computer for about half the price. Reliability has been top, and since I put them together, I know how to replace any component, and probably I'll have it done faster than any service call. For example, one big name computer with "USB 2" had such poor performance, it was barely faster than USB 1 (yes I'm aware of the tricky naming of the various USB speeds). With my own builds I can be sure of performance, and I have not been disappointed.
Roger