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I can understand that. There are absolutely times when a homebuilt pc is more appropriate. My current desktop at the house is one I built three years ago. It's just not anywhere near the cost savings for a basic build as some people think. Unless you're building a performance system or have specific requirements that are hard to duplicate from an OEM, the cost difference is a wash.One thing I don't like about manufactured PC's is that you can't get EXACTLY what you want... I'd like to upgrade from my current Dell's 512 MB of RAM to 1GB or better, but being that it only has two slots I would have to buy two separate sticks of RAM instead of just adding to it... I built a computer a good few years before I bought my current Dell and it had 4 RAM slots... I put in one stick of 512 MB RAM and ran it like that, leaving the other 3 open for easy (and cheaper) upgrade...
Not sure which memory type you've got, but you may be able to buy a single 1GB stick and run it by itself. Some types of memory require matched pairs.
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