Well, all things considered, I still prefer to build my own gaming rig. For one, I'm not into overclocking - bad enough that my US$2500 rig runs very hot despite being underclocked.
Also, I prefer tweaking the specifications to the very minute detail, and I do have very tight specifications : i.e. if the motherboard is an Asus NForce4, the video cards must be Asus Nvidia cards which do SLI. If the motherboard is made by a company that doesn't make video cards, the video card must come from a company that doesn't make motherboards. And again both must have matching chipsets (i.e. NForce to GeForce, Radeon Express to Radeon). And oh, I personally inspect the devices for green and gold capacitors before buying. Bad experiences with capacitors of those colors exploding.
And oh, lastly, I'm an AMD fanboy. I avoid using Intel chips when it comes to building high-performance systems (lack of 3DNow = bad).
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Well, all things considered, I still prefer to build my own gaming rig. For one, I'm not into overclocking - bad enough that my US$2500 rig runs very hot despite being underclocked.
Also, I prefer tweaking the specifications to the very minute detail, and I do have very tight specifications : i.e. if the motherboard is an Asus NForce4, the video cards must be Asus Nvidia cards which do SLI. If the motherboard is made by a company that doesn't make video cards, the video card must come from a company that doesn't make motherboards. And again both must have matching chipsets (i.e. NForce to GeForce, Radeon Express to Radeon). And oh, I personally inspect the devices for green and gold capacitors before buying. Bad experiences with capacitors of those colors exploding.
And oh, lastly, I'm an AMD fanboy. I avoid using Intel chips when it comes to building high-performance systems (lack of 3DNow = bad).