I agree 100% aleister, when I look at feedback online I look at the bad ones to see what their problem is. Some bad feedback has nothing to do with the product.

 

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buying computers with money you don't have sounds like a bad idea. i'd strongly reconsider saving up $500 and building it yourself. no one ever likes that idea...but it's much wiser.

 

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That would be great but I need to get one fairly quick and be confident I have no hiccups in its function because I need it for work. And I have no problems using 0% finance offers. Get them paid off within a couple months generally. I agree though that the majority of the population is not smart enough to handle financing on any scale and should shy away from it lol.


Anyway, I had originally ordered this computer but after I was told I'd have it in 5-7 business days it suddenly got put on back order and now can't seem to get an answer whether I will ever receive one. Kind of ridiculous.


Also was looking at this one but hated that it had a 5400 rpm HD.


But in general never using best buy ever again for anything. This was their last chance. No idea what I'll do but have to figure it out in the next couple weeks heh. Oh well, thanks for the warnings about the ibuypower and cyber products. Might just find a cheapo one to use for now and work on building one when I have the time.

 

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As far as Dell goes, my parents have always bought prefab Dell machines and the first thing I do for them is reformat the thing lol.

God damn they come with a lot of crapware.

 

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I used Cyberpower many years ago, and had the most horrible experience with them. I don't remember it all in detail, as there was a lot of going back and fourth, but in brief, the hard drive broke after a week, they shipped the wrong video card, when I called them they said they will fix it and send me another one which was a lower model too, when I called again they said they don't even have the one I want in stock and have no idea when they will have it.
Never paid for any of the shipping back and fourth, never returned any money from the price difference.

I later heard/or read somewhere that Cyberpower and iBuypower are the same company.. or 2 branches of the same company, which would definitely explain a lot about the customer complaints regarding both.

You can check this deal i found on techbargains.com
http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/273966

Intel Core i7-960 3.2GHz Quad-Core (liquid cooled); 6GB RAM; 500GB HDD; DVD burner; gigabit; Windows 7 Home Premium; ATI Radeon HD6870; 1yr warranty; Alienware keyboard/mouse included for $1100 after code.

Since its from Dell it should have financing.

The offer is still available - expires Nov 5.

 

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Didn't know about that website. You are my new hero.

 

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I hope Keypek is checking out this thread tonight... because that computer seems to be right up his ally.

 

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Here are few others:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/
http://slickdeals.net/
and of course http://www.techbargains.com/

 

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I don't think I could ever bring myself to buying a pre-built pc. :\

I bought a pc i put together myself from cyberpowerpc. i still own it with no issues. i customized my build and they put it together for me. my other one is an i5 i bought the parts from newegg and put it together myself. in couple hours i had an i5 running just as good if nto better than the i7 lol.


ill nvr buy a prebuild again though.

 

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