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Budget (including currency): 1000~1200

Country: Saudi Arabia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly for gaming and editing

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):  

 

I've been rocking 3 overkill machines for the last couple of years ( ps3- acer aspire 5750Z 2GB ram ddr3 intel core duo cpu- xiaomi mi max phone) after first semester ended I started digging into pc communities and watched tons of videos and read lots of articles and threads abt anything hardware related for 4 months till second semester ended. From being a person who thought all PCs are prebuilts i think I've learned a lot. And now I've decided to build my own PC, unsurprisingly lots of components r neither out of stock or overpriced but that's not my biggest concern. What I'm worried about is the shipment cost of cases and PSUs in Amazon And Newegg( there is site called Computer Universe have little cost in shipment but it's notorious for bad customer service and items never come) most of cases and PSUs delivery cost more than the item itself the only site that provide plausible price is called Microless( URL: https://global.microless.com) it has many cases and PSUs with brands I've never see them before and my most concern is cable management in cases ( i want it to be easy since it's my firs build ) and reliability of PSUs ( especially Gamemax). Long story short, should I pay extra 60 ~250 or stick with the unknown cheaper ones?

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20 minutes ago, IncompetentLohengramm said:

PS: sorry for bad english

Don't be sorry, your English is pretty good.

BabyBlu.2 (Primary): 

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
  • Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F
  • RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 @ 6400MHz 30-40-40-96
  • GPU: MSI RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X, 2100MHz core, 8000MHz mem
  • Case: Phanteks Evolv X
  • Storage: XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB, 3x ADATASU800 1TB (RAID 0), Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB
  • PSU: Corsair HX1000i
  • Display: MSI MPG341CQR 34" 3440x1440 144Hz Freesync, Dell S2417DG 24" 2560x1440 165Hz Gsync
  • Cooling: Custom water loop (CPU & GPU), Radiators: 1x140mm(Back), 1x280mm(Top), 1x420mm(Front)
  • Keyboard: Corsair Strafe RGB (Cherry MX Brown)
  • Mouse: MasterMouse MM710
  • Headset: Corsair Void Pro RGB
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro

Roxanne (Wife Build):

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte B650I AORUS ULTRA
  • RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 @ 6000MHz 30-38-38-96
  • GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 w/ LM
  • Case: Cooler Master MasterBox NR200
  • Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, Samsung 860 EVO 1TB, Silicon Power A80 2TB NVME
  • PSU: Corsair SF850L
  • Display: Dell Alienware AW3420DW GSync
  • Cooling: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm
  • Keyboard: GMMK TKL(Kailh Box White)
  • Mouse: Glorious Model O-
  • Headset: SteelSeries Arctis 7
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro

BigBox (HTPC):

  • CPU: Ryzen 5800X3D
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4-3600 @ 3600MHz 14-14-14-28
  • GPU: MSI RTX 3080 Ventus 3X Plus OC, de-shrouded, LM TIM, replaced mem therm pads
  • Case: Fractal Design Node 202
  • Storage: SP A80 1TB, WD Black SN770 2TB
  • PSU: Corsair SF600 Gold w/ NF-A9x14
  • Display: Samsung QN90A 65" (QLED, 4K, 120Hz, HDR, VRR)
  • Cooling: Thermalright AXP-100 Copper w/ NF-A12x15
  • Keyboard/Mouse: Rii i4
  • Controllers: 4X Xbox One & 2X N64 (with USB)
  • Sound: Denon AVR S760H with 5.1.2 Atmos setup.
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro

Harmonic (NAS/Game/Plex/Other Server):

  • CPU: Intel Core i7 6700
  • Motherboard: ASRock FATAL1TY H270M
  • RAM: 64GB DDR4-2133
  • GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530
  • Case: Fractal Design Define 7
  • HDD: 3X Seagate Exos X16 14TB in RAID 5
  • SSD: Inland Premium 512GB NVME, Sabrent 1TB NVME
  • Optical: BDXL WH14NS40 flashed to WH16NS60
  • PSU: Corsair CX450
  • Display: None
  • Cooling: Noctua NH-U14S
  • Keyboard/Mouse: None
  • 2.5Gb NIC
  • OS: Windows 10 Pro

NAS:

  • Synology DS216J
  • 2x8TB WD Red NAS HDDs in RAID 1. 8TB usable space
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9 minutes ago, Cvet76 said:

What about Amazon Saudi Arabia?

https://www.amazon.sa/

And to answer your question directly, no. It's definitely not worth it pay half or even almost the cost of components themselves for just shipping. There are ALWAYS other cheaper venues available. You just have to find them.

Actually amazon sa is the old Souq in a different name but the same sellers, shipping is also isn't better, with a limited number of items 😞 I'm gonna dig in other sites and maybe used market. Last week i saw corsair icue 465x brand new for 140 usd with free shipping cost, i thought it's too high for case to cost like that and in the next morning i googled it's price and was 149$ I immediately go to the site to get it and Found it out of stock 😞

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