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Ars Technica has published a new "Bargain Box Guide" for April 2014. As I'm looking through this I poked my nose over at Tom's hardware System Builder, Q1 2014: The $750 Gaming PC. Am I completely off my rocker? How do either of these qualify as a "budget build?"
I can consistently build systems (without monitors or OS) for far less that these systems and get a quality build that will work for several years of service. Am I just cheap or have I just been broke for too long and can't fathom the expense?
Do you still build systems or have you only purchased factory built units? How would you approach your design differently?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07 2014, @09:36PM
It appears that you haven't been watching what has been happening since the Summer of 2012. [googleusercontent.com] (no orig link[1]) [google.com]
NB I have never been a gamer and even I have noticed the flurry of activity outside the EULAware-OS gaming realm. [google.com]
This site does a quasi-daily digest on this topic. [google.com]
[1] I'm not linking directly to the other site any more. If the link is broken because Dice Holdings is still screwing around, I advise you to substitute a valid 12-character string for the bogus one following q=cache:
-- gewg_