You have gotten very good answers already so I'll just comment on the price
difference.

Perhaps, not neccessarily, building your own will cost you more if you buy
retail, then again the components will be of  higher quality than anything
you can buy off the shelve. There's a lot of corners cut in order to make
brand name computers inexpensive.

HTH,

Jose



SAMMIE RUTLEDGE wrote:

> There was a message about a school building their own computers but
> having compability problems.
>
> I was thinking of building mine but am now having second thoughts!
>
> Is there much price difference between building a really good one and a
> brand name? Not the ones in the $1000 price field?
>
> If you have built your own, have you had many or any compability
> problems?
>
> I play a lot of games, adventure, not flying your own plane or stuff
> like that. I would want to use speech recognition in the future. I
> use WordPerfect and do some graphics work.
>
> Thanks

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