Of course. The best price is "free".

 

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Most gamers have built many PC's over the years. It used to be a no brainer, you could buy the parts from Newegg and save %30 over a pre-built. Technology increased and prices went down and now you can buy a pre-built as cheap as building one...and ideally avoid compatibility issues.

I have built every machine I own other than my first one which I had PC Club do for me. My next one will probably by pre-built. I have better things to do with my time.

Fap and post, for example.

 

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I bought some of the computer parts at Frys ( if you get a good salesman he will search and match prices at all internet computer stores) and some at Newegg recommended to me in the desk top thread I posted a couple days ago. It should be built by next week. It cost $1700 ($1600 for everything including 24 monitor and $99 to have built)
http://vnboards.ign.com/outpost/b22180/116312237/p1/

This was build but with a few changes. Paying to have it built is the only way I will do it.


I 7 Pentium http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115071
ASUS P*Z68-V LE instead http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z68V_LE/
EVGA 560ti - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130604
OCZ 120gb SSD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706
WD 750gb slave - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136950 went Seagate a little bigger
12g corsair memory - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233146 went 16 Vengeance instead of 12
Seasonic 650W PSU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088
8 Antec Three Hundred Two http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129180&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Cases+(Computer+Cases+-+ATX+Form)-_-Ant ec-_-11129180 I had to buy power supply
DVD burner - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136236
Samsung monitor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001388
win7 pro 64bit - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116992

 

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I got a my computer from Cyberpower, which is pretty much the same as Ibuypower, a few months a go. I had heard about their lousy reputation, so, I checked around quite a bit.

Most of the problems seem to come from two areas. Their pre-builts seem to use a fair number of no name components, especially memory and power supplies. It seems to be whatever is on hand, so, you can get decent components or poor components pretty much randomly. The other problem seems to be folks attracted to Cyberpower/Ibuypower because they are cheap. They buy a good CPU and good GPU, skimp on everything else to keep the price way down, then try to overclock the hell out of it and the power supply blows up or the motherboard fries.

They have pretty decent forums which get a lot of traffic. Lots of folks seem pretty pleased. For my system, I shopped around a bit and it was about $200 cheaper than anywhere else. I called tech support a few times while it was being processed, to ask questions or to change things around a bit. Tech support was courteous, brief and seemed knowledgeable. The gpu arrived dead, but, Cyberpower swapped it for a new one with no hassle.

 

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I have a Cyberpower and its worked very well for going on 2 years zero issues, it was also my first liquid cooled machine.

I really enjoyed putting together my current PC. I look at it with a healthy measure of respect knowing that we both bled together. Well... I bled. It just sat there. Asshole.

 

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Indeed. But will it yield the best products and services?

 

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This makes sense.

Their "customization" menu appears to allow you to choose 'name brand' PSU's and memory and the like, so maybe that is the way to go.





This is a good deal Modeeb. I have been seriously thinking about one of the i7 2600/2700 processors as well. The one I linked though has a i7 970, which is just a tad better in benchmarking:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

 

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I have a cyberpower pc. It had some issues that woulda kinda defeated the purpose of having someone build it for me if it hadn't been cheaper than buying the components individually because of a deal they were offering.

If you don't know how to build a PC I wouldn't recommend them. I had to take the one they built apart and fix things up because they had connected things in a retarded way that made the case fill up with dust after just a month or two.

Yuki hates his PC!

 

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