Given what you've said, there isn't much to recommend building it from scratch over buying one complete, as long as you can find one that fits your needs. Personally I much prefer to build it solely because I feel that the premade units dont fit me that well.
In addition I dont like how they come pre loaded with junk software I wont be using; that, however, is very much personall opionon/preference
That said... I'd recommend getting 4gigs of memory minimum, as close to 16 as you feel you can comfortably afford. Everyone else has covered items that they know better than I.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
In addition I dont like how they come pre loaded with junk software I wont be using; that, however, is very much personall opionon/preference
That said... I'd recommend getting 4gigs of memory minimum, as close to 16 as you feel you can comfortably afford. Everyone else has covered items that they know better than I.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children