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Lot better than ditching a whole PC.


Or you could find a use for the old PC. I've managed to keep old PC's running Linux for quite a while without having to throw them away. Alternatively, you can donate your old kit to a local school/charity.

As to the original question: I recently built myself a shiny new games PC, but only because I wanted to spec out each of the individual (top-end) components. If you're looking for a fairly standard desktop PC, it is cheaper to buy something from Dell (or whoever).

For example, if I was specifying something for my father-in-law, I'd simply point him at the Dell website.

What Andy says about the Dell monitors is true, though. They're well worth the money. Reasonably priced and good looking. Even though my home PC isn't Dell, I still bought a pair of 2005FPW monitors for home (and recommended them so strongly that they're now part of our standard dev kit at work).
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