I think the last PC I bothered to build myself was a Pentium 4 some ages ago. Since then I've decided that the two pennies (or otherwise insignificant amount)

I think the last PC I bothered to build myself was a Pentium 4 some ages ago. Since then I've decided that the two pennies (or otherwise insignificant amount) I save building myself is not worth the time it takes to assemble it, not to mention keeping up to date on current HW trends, configurations, sockets, power supplies, mobos etc etc. Pretty much all hardware these days are technically overspec'ed compared to the load I can put on them, so as long as your needs are not high-end, pretty much any moderately modern Xeon should do. I just buy a preconfigured setup from Dell, it just works, and at worst I'll buy some extra RAM and drives elsewhere later. Maybe that's not how you like it, but for me it means zero hassles, zero work and a guarantee which is for the system as a whole working unit, not just single components. I couldn't be happier, and the days of building systems myself is definitely over.