Quote Originally Posted by Gasman View Post
Ive been reading more and more about building my own
It seems that since im not wanting a gaming computer buying pre-builts are a better option. Beside having a warranty it can be made by big companies cheeper that me buying parts. At least this is what Im finding out. I want a basic computer but with extra storage so now i just have to get more info on prebuilds like extra slots to add extra componants.
Unless you have really specific reasons for wanting to build your own, there is quite literally no objective reason anymore to do so. For regular use, the right off the shelf computer is going to be cheaper than anything you can build yourself because HP, Lenovo etc get their hardware much cheaper than you. The only reasons left are a) gaming performance or b) machine learning or extremely performance dependent computing.

I write a lot of computer software, build programs that utilize every CPU core in my system, and even when I need it to crunch a massive amount of data, my off-the-shelf machine has no problem with it.

The only advice I would add in this regard is make sure that it has the ability to add memory later because adding memory is pretty much the only upgrade most people will ever do and which make a huge difference.