Please choose the most appropriate category for your system
Tight Budget	If you are trying to build a system on a very Tight Budget, then this option will try to help you avoid any expensive equipment.
Office/Home	If you're just planning on using your computer in an office environment, or a home with basic internet access and office programs, then the Office/Home recommendations are for you.
Family/Multimedia	If you are building a computer which will be the main multimedia workstation for a family, where various video, audio, and games are to be played, Family/Multimedia is a good choice.
Frequent Gaming	If games are your main priority with some other work on the side, then Frequent Gaming is what you do!
Gaming Professional	You don't have an Xbox or a Playstation.  Computer games are your life.  You are the Gaming Professional and these defaults and recommendations should work well for you.

Recent System Builder Quotes

System Builder News
September, 2009 -- Recent Changes Support for Triple-Memory Kits on Intel X58 Motherboards
September, 2009 -- Recent Changes Support for AMD Phenom II and Intel Core i5/i7 Fixed a bug where CPU could be skipped if repairing a quote with no motherboard/CPU available any longer.
July, 2008 -- Recent Changes Support for Radeon HD 4xxx series cards for Crossfire
May, 2008 -- Recent Changes Error if you try to select new Q9xxx/QX9xxx Intel Quad Core CPUs with nForce 650/680 motherboards.
April, 2008 -- Recent Changes Support for GeForce 9800 series cards
January, 2008 -- Recent Changes Improved memory selections due to large price drops Added Windows Home Server as an OS option to all machines
November, 2007 -- Recent Changes Support for AMD Phenom processors Improved support for Crossfire on current ATi chipset cards Narrowed memory choices when not using Expert mode
July, 2007 -- Recent Changes Beta testing of Server builder We're just beginning to allow public beta testing of our Server system builder.  It still has some rough edges, so go easy on us, but if you would like to try it out, click here.
June, 2007 -- Recent Changes DDR3 support is ready!
April, 2007 -- Recent Changes You can now search for old quotes by name (only public quotes are searched) Support for motherboards with 10 or more S/ATA channels
January, 2007 -- Recent Changes Support for Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
December, 2006 -- Recent Changes Support for new cheaper Core 2 Duo-capable motherboards
June, 2006 -- Recent Changes You can no longer add a modem and a tuner card to a Micro-ATX machine if you have a separate video card also (space/slot restrictions).
May, 2006 -- Recent Changes You will now be prompted to choose an (optional) video card if you are in Family/Multimedia or above, and have chosen a board with onboard video (such as the 775Twins-HDTV or the new Socket AM2 boards from Gigabyte) in Computer Hobbyist mode. Removed prompting for DDR memory on boards that support both in Computer Hobbyist mode as DDR2 is now cheaper than DDR.  You can override this behaviour by choosing Computer Expert as your experience level. Card Reader support has also been included recently.
26th of April, 2006 -- Recent Changes Support for Crossfire using a Gecube X1900 series or HIS X1800/X1900 series card has been added.
16th of April, 2006 -- Recent Changes Support for Crossfire using a Crossfire motherboard and Powercolor X1900 series has been added. We hope to offer other Crossfire solutions soon.
3rd of February, 2006 -- Recent Changes Support for choosing either DDR or DDR2 for combo boards has been added.
22nd of January, 2006 -- Recent Changes Wendy's Colour Coordination -- now checks for matching peripherals. Improved compatibility with newer Radeon graphics cards.
18th of June, 2005 -- Recent Changes Recently, we've been doing a little under-the-hood work on the system builder to improve its usefulness. Serial ATA-II support has been added. Windows XP Professional - 64-bit Edition has been added. Improved DDR2 support. Better reliability whilst product database is being synchronised. Previously, it was possible that your quote could become invalid/unusable whilst you were in the middle of working on it.  These issues should now be a lot less common, and possibly non-existant. Look out for some more improvements to the system builder soon, including improved memory compatibility checking, as well as increased support and compatibility checking for Intel's new CPU ranges.