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But if you want something that's a standard spec (or close to a standard spec), buying will be cheaper. The builders can get much better deals on the components than you can, so the built price is probably cheaper than the self-build price.
Unless you want the fun of putting one together - but personally it's all pretty easy nowadays, so there's little fun in it, unless you're building an odd spec.
1060 is standard enough nowadays.
Are PC Specialist still the go to people?
But I wasn't thinking off the shelf purchase
Something like eBuyer/PCSpecialist so I can chose which components etc..
https://www.spire.co.uk/
I don't bother building em now for customers, just buy em from Spire, soak tested and with warranty. You will
struggle to build as cheap as they can
But they don't do 500 ssd or 16gb RAM
It might not be cost effective to swap in/outs
As suppliers go, CCL are my favourite. Scan PC are good.
Part of me would love to build a machine again, but i've dropped a bit of confidence as it has been a while. Which is mental considering I work in computing and have done many before. Perhaps It is because i know I can't afford to cock it up
This guy had spent hours on forums researching the best bang for bucks CPU and MB combo. then he scored the ram and spent a whole day installing it and carefully routing the SATA cables and wiring up the electric blue fans.He could tell me with some authority how he knew exactly what he was doing and some of the brought components must be faulty !
What he failed to notice though was that he's old board had eight holes which lined up with 8 brass standoffs in the PC case ... his new board only had 6 holes meaning 2 brass standoffs under the new motherboard were cheerfully shorting out the PCI Express bus and the buck converter which supplies the CPU core voltage.
Moral of the story is make sure you understand the whole procedure in building your own, a lot of people don't
Then I realise that for my normal activities on the PC it's still absolutely fine, and save my money.
Won't last forever of course, but there is so much life in modern PC components because everything is so damn quick.