Ah.. the Hardware hobbiest :D
Likewise.. haven’t ‘bought’ a PC since about 1991... Saved more than half on the costs back then.. but, times changed :p
Seems it costs more to buy the parts now to build the system than to buy one (of course, the systems you buy will have crappy peripherals now, so, maybe it would be the same. Haven’t used Intel since about 2001, been AMD all the way... but those times be be changing now too :(
Considering changing over (especially now that AMD is now ATI too.. I hate ATI as much as, if not more than, WinBlows :p I have owned about 6 ATI cards.. every freaking one of them were blown in less than a month.
Also, I recommend nVid if you are going Linux... Has much better support.
ROFL! Are you reading my mind?
I’ve never bought a packaged PC (except a android tablet). And up to this point I have been AMD/NVidia as well. Can’t tolerate ATI and have already decided my next cpu will be the latest Intel offering.
You ever heard that “The true test of another’s intelligence is how closely their opinion is to yours”?
:-D