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Step-By-Step: To Get Just the PC You Want, Build It Yourself

You can construct your own fully equipped system for about the same amount of money as an off-the-shelf configuration.

Scott Mueller

With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly.

Build a PC: Invoice

We constructed a midrange PC with the following components for a total just under $1200.

Scott Mueller is the author of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 17th Edition, published by Que Publishing. You can send him e-mail at scottmueller@compuserve.com.

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