Custom or prebuilt pc?

[gaminggamer1]

My little brother just got out of the hospital and the only thing he asked for was a gaming pc, however, he only has around 900 dollars and i don’t know whether to help him pick out parts or to just recommend a prebuilt because of the insane prices on even the simplest parts. PLEASE HELP ME DECIDE 

[Analog]

2 minutes ago, gaminggamer1 said:

My little brother just got out of the hospital and the only thing he asked for was a gaming pc, however, he only has around 900 dollars and i don’t know whether to help him pick out parts or to just recommend a prebuilt because of the insane prices on even the simplest parts. PLEASE HELP ME DECIDE 

 

With that budget, he will be better of getting a prebuilt. $900 doesn't even buy you a decent graphics card these days.  

[SorryBella]

Prebuilt at 900$ or so is kinda horrid. You usually going to find 500$ build marked up or an actually nearly bang on with market but with massive compromise in either connectivity, case airflow, or PSU. At below 1200$, i reccommend custom.

[Pc6777]

prebuilts are perfectly fine, as long as you get the right one, don't buy something that uses proprietary parts, get something that uses a standard mobo/psu and everything so you have future upgrade options and fixing it yourself without having to buy special proprietary parts. do your research, buy from a reputable seller and do research on the psu that's inside, a modern name brand psu with enough wattage should be good enough. for that budget you should at least be able to buy something with a gtx 1650, which isnt a beast or anything but is a legitimate gaming gpu that can handle modern games at 1080p. although diy might be cheaper, if you can get a gpu for like 300 (gtx 1650/1660) you could get a 50 dollar psu, 30 dollar case, 30 dollar boot ssd, 50 dollar 2 terabyte storage hdd, 200 dollar cpu with cooler , 80 dollar mobo, 75 dollars in ram=815, and you can get a grey market windows key for like 15-20. if you want to save some money, just get a used gtx 1050 ti for under 200, and a modern i3/current gen ryzen 3 or old ryzen 5/old i5 or i7, a cheaper motherboard and 8 gigs of ram(16 is better for multitasking/some games).

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Built Systems

***

 

Using something like Redux instead of HP, Dell etc. might be way to go. Though I don't know if Redux has anything for $900 price point.

 

The con for going prebuild is lack of upgrade options.