Does LTT build PCs yet?

[SpookyCitrus]

That's what you get for spending $4k on a prebuilt from Ibuypower, you probably over-payed for the components themselves too. Build it yourself, especially spending that much, or at least take the parts into a highly reviewed shop in your area and have them put it together for you for a minor build fee. That cable management is terrible I doubt even Ibuypower would approve that to be sent out... are you sure you bought it directly from Ibuypower and it wasn't a random person selling an Ibuypower computer?

[XGoodGuyFitz]

yea. my friend at school did the same, and i told him i could have built one for him for that price with better stuf

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 8/25/2020 at 5:04 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

They don't have the man power to be in the PC building business. Their delays would probably be upwards to a year. 

Then who is the Pyrimid pc for?

[dalekphalm]

On 8/25/2020 at 6:03 PM, FrostMyFlakes said:

So I tried to get a PC built from iBuyPower for almost $4k. It goes delayed for 2 months and when they sent it to me the cable management could have started a fire and the motherboard was damaged. Asking if the One The ONLY LTT peeps build PCs yet? after looking at how well they build PCs on vids Im more confident in them than companies atm lol.

Never gonna happen, unless they seriously brand out in terms of diversifying their business.

 

PC Building companies are extremely low profit margin. To sell you a PC that's a good value (eg: somewhat comparable to buying the individual parts and building it yourself), they have to sell within about $100 or so of that total cost.

 

Then they would have to offer a comparable warranty to any custom PC Builder - 1 year minimum. So they need to provide warranty support as well as basic customer service (basic software support, etc).

 

That would be massive overhead, costing them a lot of money.

 

On top of that, they'd literally have to hire a bunch of new people to build these PC's, since everyone who works there already has jobs and can't just... "fit in" a PC building business into their regular schedule.

 

So while I'm sure multiple LMG employees are competent PC builders, it would frankly be a waste of their time and a bad financial decision for them to start a PC building business within LMG.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

Then who is the Pyrimid pc for?

I wouldn't say one-offs for some hot shot YouTuber or influencer counts. We're talking mass-production units like the ones you get from Maingear or Origin.  

[Helpful Tech Witch]

15 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I wouldn't say one-offs for some hot shot YouTuber or influencer counts. We're talking mass-production units like the ones you get from Maingear or Origin.  

I stil l think the customer is Linus himself. they really are being d icks about it in the video, so it makes sense, as I don't think that anyone would be that mean to someone with a customer relationship in mind.

[Warin]

1 hour ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

Then who is the Pyrimid pc for?

You do realize there is a HUGE difference between building a one off system and setting up a system integrator operation, right?  I figure that if you got ahold of LMG and offered some fairly serious cash for a really cool custom system that they could use as a video series, it might be possible.  And probably way more likely if you are someone famous.

Me?  I prefer to build my own.  Nothing against the LMG guys, but I get a huge amount of happiness from taking a pile of components and having a working system when I am done.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Warin said:

You do realize there is a HUGE difference between building a one off system and setting up a system integrator operation, right?  I figure that if you got ahold of LMG and offered some fairly serious cash for a really cool custom system that they could use as a video series, it might be possible.  And probably way more likely if you are someone famous.

Me?  I prefer to build my own.  Nothing against the LMG guys, but I get a huge amount of happiness from taking a pile of components and having a working system when I am done.

I would never do prebuilt. My point was, they obviously do build pcs, but yes, not on large scales.

[A1200]

I used to build PCs as a business in 1998 - was ok to do so back then - many people liked local businesses putting systems together over the likes of HP and Dell - not sure there is the sell now. Gaming PCs already have enough prebuilders - no money in it like everyone has said.

[Riccardo Cagnasso]

PC building as a profession is the kind of activity where a small shop would always outperform a big company.