My home computer is

RIght now I'm using my crap Dell, but I should have the rest of my parts for my new computer ready by the end of the month, so it's coming soon!

I have 1024mb paired Corsair RAM (need more)
An ASUS SLi motherboard (fanless design with a heatpipe - quiet as a baby!)
A Sapphire XT1900 GT 256mb gfx card
An Athlon 64 3800+ CPU
An Enermax 400W PSU which is excellent (also very quiet)
A massive Zalman CPU fan which is superb (extremely quiet)
All in a Yeong Yang black cube server case
+ A cherry black keyboard (nothing fancy, has lasted me about 7 years and has shown no signs of )
A Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (which is just coming to an end after 5 years and fixing the cord once before - I'll be getting a new 5 button ambidextrous one as I'm left-handed)

I think the loudest thing in the setup is the buzz from the old 2.1 Packard Bell speakers.
Budget for that was probably about £1000. It's well worth putting your own PC together and saving yourself some money.

The only overpriced component I got was WinXP. I went budget and got Home Ed for £40. and it didn't even include Office. What a rip.

I choose Custom over anything else. As I know what is actully going into my machine.

made from scratch... easiest way to get a cheap, high quality, fast computer

well, mines not custom built per say, but i chose all the stuff they threw in.

prebuilds are for nooberts

right now the specson my comp are:

3.06 ghz ram celeron D processor

9550 raedon with 256 cache ram

500 gigs of total hdd space

sound blaster live! 24-bit

netgear 1gig network interface card (didnt come with the comp, installed my self when the on board died X__X)

Im thinking bout upgrading though, to either a new comp or just new parts:

so either a 5k computer from alienware/gateway:

1 tb hdd space, ati x6xx crossfire agpx8, duel core factory overclocked 3.2 ghz processor, 4096 megs of ram (in 4 x 1024 meg sticks which i would then upgrade to 4 x 2046 once i had the money).

or ill just get a nvidia 8800 gtx 760 meg ram agpx8 vid crd and 2x2048 ultra ddr 4400 ram sticks

the later is cheapest but <__< id rather go with a new comp.

Dells can suck it, I have to work on those at work and they are pains in the... never mind.

woot 1st vote!
i built mine from the ground up and so should everyone else

Same.

Made mine meself. Its a decent machine. :)

I have a standard, but i upped the video card.

I only wish i had a custom tower to go with the parts inside :(

standard machine, but have upgraded

been building myself since the mid 90's. Honestly, it feels more "mine" that way. :)

ive built my last 2 myself because its so much cheaper (and fun)

man you guys stink. I got those people from dell to make me a custom computer.

It was a Dell :/, but the only Dell parts left are the DVD drive, one hard drive, and the power supply. :D

aznsnake, suck it up, you're jelous, becouse you can't build computer by yourself, so somebody must do this for you, ya twat ; o

Built mine myself. It was the height of UBER back in the day :lol:

I have a Dell Useless Crap 7000

wtf im on a mac right now and it sucks. god i hate the schools computers.

Custom Build all the way, it feels much nicer to buy one part at a time cos you don't realise as much as a dent in bank account :D

crappy standard machine... wish I could get myself a custom built beast...

okay now im home but im building my new one atm. but im on a prebuilt peices of ****.

my mac owns, im running windows right now and can play games like and Half Life2 on full graphics(well i have to turn off shadows in F.E.A.R. to save some fps but thats it).

i meant to say games like F.E.A.R. and....*

Custom built, complete with a custom built water cooler system

How to make:
Glad box
Ice/water
Napkins

please, my ***** custom!

custom FTW.

Have built mine since 1998. But I think there might be a need to put a disclaimer stating that building your own, does not mean, "I chose the hardware I wanted in it." as a lot of people think this is building their own for some reason.

I have 1 prebuit gaming laptop.
2 custom linux servers

i builded mine myself :)
twice the fun: 1 because making it is fun en then the joys of gaming :d

custom build. unfortunately there's not enough money to upgrade it currently...

always build and break my own pcs :D is the way forwards

My is all the latest eq from This September

Standard pre-built, but I've upgraded the Video Card and HDDD

my case is a sleak Apevia Q-Pack. :)

I custom built my computer 2 days ago. The specs are as follows:
Nzxt Lexa Case
Evga 680i mobo
Intel C2D E6600 cpu @ 3 ghz
Thermaltake V1 cpu cooler
XFX 8800 GTX 768 mb gpu
Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 ram (2 gigs)
OCZ GameXstream 850 watt psu
Creative X-Fi Gamer Extreme sound card
Samsung 206BW Widescreen monitor
Saitek Eclipse keyboard
Logitech G5 mouse

I love it its an awesome gaming computer, able to max out the graphics on any game i throw at it, with no lag wutsoever (not even Supreme Commander with 8 AIs) and i got it for $2200. The same computer from Alienware (not overclocked) is $5400, so custom-built was the way to go.

My was originally ordered/pre-built, but I voted #1 cause it's a whole new computer now. Everything I took out and put it myself. Only thing remaining is monitor and case.

So far with my customy built, any game full gfx :D
Can't wait for Crysis or UT3 :D

Windows 95 all the way baby!!!!!

Lol, jk, have a specially designed computer so I can massacure noobs in much more detail, and hardly ever crash.

Its definetly best to chose our own stuff so, Custom FTW

though some things is to complicated for me, like my NZXT Guardian Chassi:s
damn front USB and Audio holes/things, it dosent say in the damn manual
how to plug them in to my ATX motherboard.

Custom built

It's the only way to know that your rig has been built well :P

Custom Builllt. The best way to have a good gaming rig.

Built mine.
Specs:

AMD socket 939 dual cores ea. at 2.3GHz
Nvidia 7900GTX Video Card
320GB hard drive and a 120GB hard drive, Each SATA.
Aspire Blue/black Case
2GB of ram
Audigi Sound Blaster HD sound card
JBL creature speakers
HP f2105 20in. screen
Dvd drive RW
Light Scribe drive

AND MY beloved PS3!! next to my Full HD samsung 21in.

together cost me $2300

and 1 more spec:
Motherboard- MSI diamond edition

Yeah, custom built does not simply mean you selected the items and it was put together for you. I wish they'd be more specific, because the way it is now anybody who ordered a friggin' Dell can say that it's "custom". Instead of "made it myself", it should say "pieced together myself" or something.

In the case of my machine it was simply cheaper to have my supplier build it from the parts I wanted than to buy those parts from the same supplier. I would have built it myself if their had been any benefit. With the OS installation, additional drives and upgraded graphics cards I opted for the custom option on the poll.

Perhaps these result will lure more hardware suppliers to invest more advertising revenue in moddb...

Intel Dual core Duo 2
Nvidia 7900GTX Video Card
1 TB HD
some water cooled case
4GB DDR2 ram
Audigi Sound Blaster HD sound card
JBL creature speakers
dell 27in hd montior
Dvd drive RW/and a blu ray drive

custom is the fun way!