Almost every computer ive built i always went and looked for one similar, and most of the ones i built were top end gaming machines at the time. I think the MOST expensive computer i put together was slightly over 1,000$, and we compared it to alienware's gaming computer which was 4,000$. We had more ram, more graphics card power, better processor, (We DIDNT have 4tb's of space but who needs that much). Granted the Alienware 4k$ computer came with keyboard/speakers/monitor etc and this was a bare machine, but still none of that can cost more than 1,000$. So all in all you generally save MINIMAL 50% on building it yourself.