Looking around the $2,000 range

[Abaddon53]

I am looking for the best prebuilt desktop around the $2,000 range. I built my last system and was thinking about building this one but the convince of a prebuilt might be better. I will end up putting my own liquid cooling system in it down the line and would like something I can overclock as well. Looking to do it within the next month or so.

[CharminUltraStrong]

18 minutes ago, Abaddon53 said:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$525.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	EVGA - CLC 280 113.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$112.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	ASRock - Z390 Taichi ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$203.88 @ OutletPC
Memory	Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$89.99 @ Newegg
Storage	ADATA - XPG SX8200 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$69.89 @ OutletPC
Storage	Seagate - FireCuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive	$99.87 @ OutletPC
Video Card	MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB VENTUS Video Card	$699.99 @ B&H
Case	Fractal Design - Meshify C Dark TG ATX Mid Tower Case	$106.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$49.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1984.57
	Mail-in rebates	-$25.00
	Total	$1959.57
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-04 02:05 EST-0500

Definitely don't go prebuilt when websites like PCpartpicker exist. Here's a list for a pretty overkill system.

[seagate_surfer]

Here you can see the specifications of Seagate FireCuda in case you have interest in reviewing them: https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/firecuda/ 

[Abaddon53]

21 hours ago, CharminUltraStrong said:

Definitely don't go prebuilt when websites like PCpartpicker exist. Here's a list for a pretty overkill system.

Hadn't heard of PCpartpicker before. The last time I built a system was back in 2008ish. That does indeed look awesome. Those are all current prices?  Also would that power supply be enough for when I do end up putting in my liquid cooling loop?

[Abaddon53]

12 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

Here you can see the specifications of Seagate FireCuda in case you have interest in reviewing them: https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/firecuda/ 

I would most definitely be interested in doing a review on them. Looks like an awesome product.

[CharminUltraStrong]

On 3/4/2019 at 11:34 AM, seagate_surfer said:

Here you can see the specifications of Seagate FireCuda in case you have interest in reviewing them: https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/firecuda/ 

I'll take a look, I've been a big fan of mine since I've installed it. Synthetic benchmarks like Crystal Disk don't properly bench them. There's a night and day difference between my Firecuda and the hard drives I use for mass storage which are BOG slow by comparison.