Quote Originally Posted by The IT Monkey
I can build it myself... I am not the IT Monkey for nothing. I parted it out though and it's only about $150 extra to have dell do it. If you take into account that the computers I build never seem to want to work the first time, sometimes the parts are incompatible for esoteric reasons, I think having it arrive ready to run as opposed to fu&$ing with it for two days is worth the $150.
As with alot of things, it comes down to how much is your time worth, and what's the "stress-free" version worth?