Who sells PC's w/o OS?

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Quality of parts will be a big issue. One example: you can snag cheap garbage "600W" power supplies all day long for next to nothing, but they'll burn out in a month.

This is actually hands down by far the most difficult part of building your own...deciding what brands to get and how much more to pay for quality.

Going with the popular concensus (like Abit or Asus mainboards) will likely get you a reasonably cheap computer that's better quality than mass produced Dell/Gateway/eMachine/Viao/HP/*, but still may not be the best value per dollar.

Basically it comes down to how much you value picking up the knowledge and doing the research vs spending the time to do so. Sometimes you will trigger religious brand wars...AMD vs Intel, WD vs Maxtor, Asus vs Trend Micro, blah blah blah.

Listen to what people say, but make your own choices. I disagree w/ techs often...but both opinions are "correct" based on each of our experiences. Chalk the wars up to variance, have fun, learn, and be proud of your new system [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]