Why Build your Own Computers?

I still remembered building my own very first computer and it takes me over an hour to double check everything before I pressed the power button. It was more than a decade ago where the manual instruction sucks and you have to cmos your computer? I'm not too sure what it's called, basically you have to tun on the power for 3 seconds and shut it off just to let the electricity run through the motherboard, then change the jumper back and turn it on. Luckily, you don't have to do all this shit nowadays and most manual are very well written. Manufacture even made their motherboards easy to work with by implementing some safety features that prevent you from plugging the wrong way.

I just recently built another new PC, it wasn't too difficult but unfortunately I got a defective board! So I have to drive all the way back to the shop and have it tested and changed. That's the downside of building your own computers when it's not working as it should. The very critical moment is when you turn on the power, if you sees something on the screen, cheers! You can start installing Windows or whatever in your computer. If you sees nothing, black screen but cpu is still running, you are most probably got a defective board. That's the reason why people don't want to build their own computer, instead buy a new one directly from companies.

Let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of building or buying computers. Why build your own computer when you can buy the whole set? Because it's cheaper and you got the choices over your hardware. If you are a gamer or you are very picky with the sound system, keyboard or other hardwares, you might want to consider building your own. With the same price, you can easily build a computer that's better than buying in a set. Maybe a better keyboard, better graphics card, more RAM or faster CPU. This is the scenario where you want better specs on a tighter budgets. The downsides of building your own computer is time consuming and got the higher chance of getting defective products.

If you have the money and willing to pay for your time, then buying computer might be a better choice. Buying computer in the past might not be as good as building your own, but companies have gotten cleverer in offering different computer targetting different gropu of users. If you are a gamer, they would include a more powerful graphics card, cpu or more RAM. If you just need a computer for internet and wording, then an integrated graphics is more than enough. And this should lower the cost for budget minded consumers. If you buy from HP or Dell, they already tested it and make sure the computer is working fine before you buy it. OS for your choice such as Windows is already installed and ready to use. All you need to do is plug in the power supply and you are ready to use. If there's any problems in the middle, just send the whole computer back within the warranties and they fix it for you. Computers from HP and Dell some times includes bloatware or unnecessary software in your PC. If you have the proper knowledge you can uninstalled it though.

If you want hassle free experience and don't care too much about the hardware as long as it works, buying a computer might be a better choice. I know some user doesn't care their keyboard sounds like a piano as long as they can surf the net and play some movies. If you are very picky person over quality of products, you might want consider building your own. It might takes long time in researching and building, but I think it'll save you more time in future. Once you have experience building a computers, whenever you meet a problems or hardware failure, you'll be able to fix it on your own. Sending back to manufacture could possibly left you with no computer for weeks or even months.

Building a computer might not as hard as you think, you just have try it once. The computer you build will last you years to come.