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A few little known facts about computers...
1. ALL Manufacturers like HP, Dell, Gateway and the like use bottom of the bin parts. They're just like any other business where lowest bidder wins the contract.
2. If you take some time to read the fuckin manual, building your own desktop is not that hard. For starters, any half decent or better motherboard manufacturer includes nice pictures and full installation details in their manuals. Secondly, it's not like you can actually fuck up and install something where it doesn't belong... unless you're a grade A fucking retard.
CPU's can only be installed on/in the cpu socket. Installing a cpu is the only halfway tricky part as you need to make sure to install it the right way... but it's in the manual and if you read it, you should have 0 problem because it really is very easy.
Memory can only be installed into a Memory slot. The memory stick can only be installed in one way, and there's a little notch on the memory stick as well as the memory slot on the motherboard. Line notches up, apply medium force until memory stick(s) click lock into place.
Likewise, PCI expansion cards can only be installed into PCI slots, same with PCIe, AGP (lol if you buy something with agp these days) etc etc. There is no component that you can buy for a PC that can accidentally be install in the wrong place.
The benefit of building your own?
Knowing exactly what hardware you have in your system.
You actually end up learning more about your system and how it operates.
When something goes wrong, you'll probably have a better idea of what it is and how to fix it. PC repair people make a living off of people simply because the average person has no clue as to what's wrong with their system.
And last but not least... the internet is FULL of FREE information about everything you could possibly ever want to know about computers. How to build your own, how to fix it, what those pesky BSOD error codes mean (most of the time), etc etc etc. Search engines are your friend. Inform yourself instead of always relying on other people to fix things for you... you'll be surprised at how much money you'll end up saving.
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