WDBeaver posted at 6:42PM Fri, 24 April 2020 - #4387226

EClark1894 posted at 4:29PM Fri, 24 April 2020 - #4387186

WDBeaver posted at 1:06PM Fri, 24 April 2020 - #4387110

Are you comfortable building one? .

Not at all.

Ah, well. If you were willing to experiment, you could put together either a serious beast now, or a decent performer with upgrade options. Going with industry standard parts, you would only need a screwdriver or two, and a pair of needle nosed pliers to get into the tight places. And since all the parts would be white box, you could obtain replacements from almost any distributor.

I probably could, and at one point about twenty years ago, I did give serious thought to building my own. That was back when there was actually a Radio Shack on almost every street corner and computer parts were easy to come by. I wouldn't even know where to start looking now, even if I were more confident in my ability to build one.