This thread reminded me I had a case/motherboard/CPU/Memory in boxes in my living room that i never got around to assembling, so I spent the last three evenings, quite a few hours, doing it--I now have a new Linux computer, to replace the old Linux which I partially cannibalized, to supplement the Vista from Dell. The hardest parts were accessing screws and connectors in dark, tight places, and figuring out the jumbled mess of cables in the case that the instruction book never mentioned, but needed to be connected to various places on the motherboard. That, and the motherboard was made in China and the documentation was kind of spotty with misspellings and bad grammar and low-res hard-to-read diagrams. But I got it together eventually, and it works.

It does seem if you're willing to spend the time, building your own system is worthwhile--boots up fast, runs fast, no OED software, it's on there if and only if you put it there (Dell improved greatly, especially getting rid of "sign me up to AOL" that is so easy to accidentally click) but still has a few things pre-installed).

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