Build vs. Buy?
Well, like many have been saying, the build is good if you have coinfidence and are willing to expel the effort to do the research. When I did the reasearch, the cost of a homebuild far surpassed that of a prebuilt, but who knows, its worth a shot. There is nothing wrong with a prebuilt, because even if you do choose to upgrade it they will not have compatibility issues with most types of hardware that you would probably consider (Video Cards, Ram, HD, Sound card, etc). Recently I bought a Sony 2.8 p4 with an ugraded 1 gig of ram, 120 gb HD, and i added a 9600 for dual monitors and I've been very happy with it. For god's sake though, don't by a Dell or a Compaq. Good luck, feel free to ask any other questions