In my previous post, I demonstrated just how much companies charge you for building a computer for you.

And the computer I used as an example was their cheapest offering.

Now, let's say you have $699.99 (their asking price) as a budget, and you decide that you will buy the parts and build the computer yourself. Is there a significant difference in the quality of the parts you would be able to buy with the money that you have saved? Let's find out, in the table below.

As of today, I actually found a cheaper offering for the Case I had listed on my previous post. Some of the parts I listed before are re-used here, simply because they are great and there is nothing wrong with them!

But without further delay, let's see what you could do with $699.99 if you build your own computer.

If you compare this table to the one in the previous post, you can see clearly that quite a few of the parts offered have improved greatly. For example from top to bottom:

Before, you had a 350 Watt Power Supply, now you have a 600 Watt Power Supply.
Before, you had a Dual Core CPU, now you have an Eight-Core CPU.
Before you had 6GB of DDR3 Ram at 1333MHz speed, now you have 8GB of DDR3 Ram at 1600MHz speed.
Before you had an Nvidia GT 640 Video Card, now you have an Nvidia GTX 660 Video Card.

The parts that were not changed is because they are fine as they are, but the key components: Power Supply, Video Card, CPU and RAM, were all upgraded thanks to the saving you made from building your own PC.

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