how much money does it cost to buy a prebuilt vs building your own parts? heard that it’s cheaper to make your own, but is that right? 
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kinda hard to say on the exact cost. i think it’ll depends on budget. u’ll probably save by % of costs, but honestly, nothing beats building your computer part by part.
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It is cheaper to build your own. Plus you can go deal hunting.
And you get to learn about computers while building it + a new experience of building. Why would you pay $200 to have someone else take that joy from you?
The only plusses are support and warranty if you buy a pre built… I think.
I just built a computer for $2,000 USD, I checked custom/non custom pre built and they were significantly more by $200 and up.
The only PC company to come close to price is Costco from what I have found so far.
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Yes, and I think it’s better to build your own just so you can experience how building a PC works so you know how to get in and out of your PC if you need to fix/upgrade/replace things. There’s also the fact that some prebuilts use janky proprietary parts (cough cough Dell cough cough) that make it harder or impossible to upgrade. As a plus, if you build your own PC, it feel more personal and unique, because it’s YOUR PC with the parts YOU chose.
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rip Dell callout, but thanks for the update
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Dell will give you a banana shaped SSD 
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