Thursday, February 19, 2009
Does Building Your Own PC Really Save You Money?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Talk" @ 04:01 PM
We've had an interesting discussion about the pros and cons of self-building a PC, and some of the comments were around whether or not it saves money to build the PC yourself. Some people said that it did for them, but since that flew in the case of my own experience, I decided to do a little experiment. I went to Dell.ca and priced out the following Intel Core i7-based system:
The price from Dell for that? $999 Canadian. To create a comparison, I went to the online store of my local computer parts store, which tends to be quite affordable. See how I did after the break. Read more...
