There's indeed nothing special about a home-built PC, and while I don't particularly enjoy it (even though it's gotten much easier in the past 20 years), I stil

There's indeed nothing special about a home-built PC, and while I don't particularly enjoy it (even though it's gotten much easier in the past 20 years), I still do it, since it's typically the only way to ensure: * Properly sized cooling that keeps my PC silent under any kind of load. (I have to admit, Dell et al. have made decent progress there too, but that's mostly thanks to the great improvements in power management we've seen in the past decade). * Optimal budget allocation. * Exotic features (for instance, I built my current computer 2½ years ago, and there was only one mainboard on the market providing HDMI 2.0 with the Skylake iGPU). If I weren't so cheap, I guess I would just order all the parts from a single store and pay for assembly. Now, when it comes to recommending a computer to my family, I just tell them to buy a NUC/Brix.