Building Your Own PC

"That’s one of the most exciting aspects of our hobby. Automobile buffs can tune and customize their factory-built cars and trucks, but computer geeks like us get to build something new and unique almost entirely from whole cloth. And it’s so easy that you have to wonder why anyone would buy a preassembled PC in the first place. Thanks to the relatively open architecture that IBM stumbled into oh so many years ago (and has likely regretted ever since), we can rebuild and retune our creations again and again, boosting their performance and postponing their obsolescence. And if you’ve never experienced the joy and pride of building your own PC, click through to read our in-depth, hands-on guide."

Building PCs is something I used to enjoy doing, but have not done in years.  If you've never built one before, I strongly recommend you do it at least once, you'll learn a lot and it really is not that difficult.  Check out the full article to get an idea of what you would be getting yourself into.