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>>I'm also open to having a local computer shop put together a system.
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>Not my first choice - if I want to go custom, I want someone who really knows what they're doing to spec and build the beastie. I like MIND and PCNut - these are the guys I call when I want to bounce ideas about rolling something for myself, and I buy from them because I know that anything they put together for me will be assembled and configured well, with high-quality components, and

PCNut seems to be at www.pcnut.com. Where is MIND? I presume that these are both mail-order.