> Guess what building a pc is not worth it. It's not worth it in frustration or anything else. That depends on how much you value the learning-opportunity prov

> Guess what building a pc is not worth it. It's not worth it in frustration or anything else. That depends on how much you value the learning-opportunity provided by building your own machine. I certainly do! > It's better to buy a commercial business grade desktop with a support contract. If you're a self-employed SWE who needs a reliable dependable backup machine that you can use the support-contract to get fixed within 24 hours, then yes, I strongly agree. ...but I still think building ones' own primary machine is worth it. > They always have some kind of weird power issue or something I've built 8 machines for myself (and a couple more for friends and family) since I started in 2004 and I've never had an issue with power-supplies because I thoroughly research my options. PSUs are a safety-critical component of your PC: if it misbehaves it could kill you (e.g. if the computer-case goes live or the grounding pin fails - fun!) - or at least destroy everything of value inside it - I guess because I refuse to cheap-out on PSUs I've never had a problem. Actually - there was one incident: back in 2005 I was building my second machine (a box to run Windows Server 2003 on so I could do ASP.NET web-development without needing to install IIS and SQL Server on my XP machine) and the PSU I ordered online was delayed, so I went to my parents' town's small-biz local PC shop and asked if they had any PSUs and all they had was a second-hand jobbie they gave me in a plastic carrier-bag for £20 - that PSU failed after a few days - just in-time for my online-order PSU to arrive.