I built my own a year ago and was disappointed because of the fan noise. Having a Dell previously, I never thought about it, as you say. But I do now.
I would probably buy a Dell now, just to get the promise of quiet operation.
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>>>on how to build your own gaming machine for under $1,000. What I would like to do is build my own machine, but I'll be using it to develop with Windows XP Professional, Visual Studio.NET, and SQL Server 2000. I am assuming that in a development machine, hard drive performance is more important than graphics performance, but is that true?