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[Fail Whale]

Cost wise this depends on how much you value your own time as building from scratch to get a good system takes masses of research on what the best hardware is for the money and wether it is compatible with the rest of the system. Poorly compatiblehardware can take rediculous amounts of resources to work. then add on the build time and possibly the time taken to make it actually work or replace DOA hardware and the non OEM OS costs which can be considerably higher. This often actually removes any advantage from building the system yourself other than the pride you have in your machine when it is built by your own hands.