Up until about four years ago I always built my own rigs. For myself or family members or whoever else wanted it, really. But I became a Mac convert and as such haven't built or kept up to date with hardware changes since then.
My parents need a new PC now and I'm seeing this as a good opportunity to get back up to date with the hardware changes over the past four years. My question is, is it still worth building your own? They don't play games or anything, already have a decent monitor and one of the major reasons for building my own was that it was much cheaper.
I always enjoyed building PCs so I'm actually wanting to build one from scratch. They've got about £300 to play with (maybe a bit more) and I know they could get a prebuilt one from Tesco for around that price. If they were big gamers or used any other resource intensive applications then I'd definitely build one but as all they'll use it for is browsing the internet and whatnot a cheapo pre-built one would probably do.
Any suggestions?
My parents need a new PC now and I'm seeing this as a good opportunity to get back up to date with the hardware changes over the past four years. My question is, is it still worth building your own? They don't play games or anything, already have a decent monitor and one of the major reasons for building my own was that it was much cheaper.
I always enjoyed building PCs so I'm actually wanting to build one from scratch. They've got about £300 to play with (maybe a bit more) and I know they could get a prebuilt one from Tesco for around that price. If they were big gamers or used any other resource intensive applications then I'd definitely build one but as all they'll use it for is browsing the internet and whatnot a cheapo pre-built one would probably do.
Any suggestions?