FWIW, I've found custom spec machines from small shops often work better. All of our desktop PCs at work were bought this way, since for a small business with j

FWIW, I've found custom spec machines from small shops often work better. All of our desktop PCs at work were bought this way, since for a small business with just a few people at the office, you often want to tailor the specs for each machine. I too used to enjoy self-building for my personal PCs and got excellent results, but with my business hat on the time isn't really justifiable any more. The advantages often claimed for the big name brands in lower prices and particularly in better support are mostly illusory in my experience. Any decent small shop will also give you honest advice about the current price/performance sweet spots and will know which brands for things like SSDs or motherboards have been proving reliable recently and whose latest product was a turkey. If you also use Reddit and do want to put a spec together yourself, you might find the /r/buildapc sub to be helpful. As well as generally helpful discussion with people who are doing this all the time, there are links to some resources to help experiment with specs and prices that you might find useful. They won't produce a spec for you, but they'll be happy to look at what you're thinking about and make suggestions for improvement or warn of things you've overlooked.