Today I stopped in at my local Best Buy... Thier PCmasterrace game was strong

[Jerakl]

PCMR Booooys

 

 

 

I only PCMR ironically.

[Str_Mape]

I definitely prefer the demo PC I made for work.

Board has since changed to Z170 but I'm not sure I have any half decent pictures of the updated one.

[TheSLSAMG]

I definitely prefer the demo PC I made for work.

Board has since changed to Z170 but I'm not sure I have any half decent pictures of the updated one.

Mmm, nice case choice.

[Peepnbrick]

The case has a window, so their idea of aesthetically appealing is to take literally every cable in the entire case and ziptie them together right in front of the window.

 

You do you, IBuyPower...

[Amazingasian]

dafaq? is that an ITX board in an ATX case? I would say its a matx, but it only has 2 RAM slots and you cant see any continuation of the mobo after the GPU.

It's an mATX board in an ATX case.  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128876

[SteveGrabowski0]

 

$60 motherboard in a $1500 PC?  :lol:

 

What's the GPU? A GTX 660?

[DominicNikon]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MRtBkL i would get this in the 1500 price range 

[Dabombinable]

Micro-ATX cable disaster should be its name. 

I think its an ITX motherboard.

[connorpiper]

I think its an ITX motherboard.

 

Either way, it should not be in there. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

Edit: Appears Jonothan from TLDToday was just at the same store I was!

 

https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/671496916144775169

 

Nah, his they actually put the 24 pin cable behind the video card where your photo it's draped right over it.  :lol:

[SteveGrabowski0]

I think its an ITX motherboard.

 

Nah, it's microATX

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128876

[Dabombinable]

Nah, it's microATX

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128876

Barely, remove the bottom 2 PCIe slots and it'll be ITX.

[Fgtfv567]

dafaq? is that an ITX board in an ATX case? I would say its a matx, but it only has 2 RAM slots and you cant see any continuation of the mobo after the GPU.

It's not ITX, it's micro-ATX

 

At my emeryville Best Buy, well, it kinda blows, but it's not all bad... (For PC gaming that is)

 

A similar iBuyPower PC on display has an i5-4440 or 4460 on a stock cooler, a B85 Micro-ATX board (I saw the bottom slots below the 750 Ti, trust me), 750 Ti, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, some generic ass 400W PSU that looks really shoddy (I hope it's really just Seasonic and they made it grey!), same NZXT case, with THE SAME SHITTY CABLE MANAGEMENT. For 750-800 dollars.

 

A 750 Ti. Half-assed cable management, just like above. For 800 dollars.

I saw a similar one at another Best Buy for about 1500-ish, but at least that had a GTX 970, so I assume OP's also has a GTX 970 or similar.

 

Their GPU selection is a little bit pathetic, but much better than a lot of other stores like Walmart and Office Depot/Max. They carry:

Nvidia: Reference 970 and 980, EVGA ACX 2 970 (maybe 960 too), ACX 750 Ti, PNY reference? 950 and 960.

AMD: All XFX cards. Best are 390 and 390X, otherwise they have 370s, and then 1 or 2 super crap cards like a R7 240

 

It's not all bad though, they do have a great selection of mechanical drives, few or no SSDs tho, a few corsair PSUs, hell even a H100i GTX, and I've seen an EVGA stinger Z97 ITX board there a while back. The real cream of the crop is a solid selection of gaming peripherals, like mech keyboards and controllers 

[PlayStation 2]

Let's point out other mistakes, shall we.

stock fan in a $1500 pc

 

no name PSU powering a decent (?) gpu

 

Molex connectors. Fucking really.

 

Call me crazy but almost a fire hazard.

 

Why did they leave 'em on the GPU.

 

Six mistakes counting the motherboard I pointed out earlier.

[connorpiper]

Let's point out other mistakes, shall we.

stock fan in a $1500 pc

 

no name PSU powering a decent (?) gpu

 

Molex connectors. Fucking really.

 

Call me crazy but almost a fire hazard.

 

Why did they leave 'em on the GPU.

 

Six mistakes counting the motherboard I pointed out earlier.

 

The GPU is either a 950 or 750ti due to the dual Heatpipes so close together. 

[PlayStation 2]

The GPU is either a 950 or 750ti due to the dual Heatpipes so close together. 

GPU board is way too long for a 750 Ti so probably a 950

[connorpiper]

GPU board is way too long for a 750 Ti so probably a 950

 

Such a strong GPU for $1500

[Fgtfv567]

GPU board is way too long for a 750 Ti so probably a 950

The one I looked at at my Best Buy has a 750 Ti

 

 

 

Molex connectors. Fucking really.

 

Call me crazy but almost a fire hazard.

 

 

 

What's wrong with the Molex connectors? Are they powering fans?

 

Where's the fire hazard? Don't see it, is it all the cables bunched together?

[big_lilo]

That cable management.....

 

 

[connorpiper]

The one I looked at at my Best Buy has a 750 Ti

 

What's wrong with the Molex connectors? Are they powering fans?

 

Where's the fire hazard? Don't see it, is it all the cables bunched together?

 

The power supply is so shit that it does not have a 6-pin, so they had to use the molex to 6 pin adapter. 

[PlayStation 2]

The one I looked at at my Best Buy has a 750 Ti

 

What's wrong with the Molex connectors? Are they powering fans?

 

Where's the fire hazard? Don't see it, is it all the cables bunched together?

The molex connectors are powering the GPU. And considering the PSU in it...

[KingKeith55]

The GPU is either a 950 or 750ti due to the dual Heatpipes so close together. 

Most likely. Not even a 270 or so has heatpipes that close.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Why did they leave 'em on the GPU.

 

Six mistakes counting the motherboard I pointed out earlier.

 

I leave the covers on the SLI fingers of my 970, no reason to let dust get on them.

[Fgtfv567]

The power supply is so shit that it does not have a 6-pin, so they had to use the molex to 6 pin adapter. 

 

 

The molex connectors are powering the GPU. And considering the PSU in it...

Thanks, I couldn't tell from the pictures. From what I've heard, it's bad to use Molex to 6/8 pins as the PSU usually can't keep up if you have to resort to those adapters

 

For the quality of the PSU, again, I hope it's just a grey coloured Seasonic PSU instead of the crappy ones that the Average Joe's Office PC would use. If it's the latter, shame on iBuyPower. 800, hell even 1500 bucks for "High-end gaming PCs", this is preposterous. Possible fire hazards, crappy cable management, and (hopefully not) no-name chinese knockoff PSUs!

 

I have a bad feeling that their PCs are just assembly-line PCs mass produced, instead of careful assembly by a single person, the way I, you, or another dedicated forum member would do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, profits, time, all that, but still

 

Edit: Hell, you know what, Alienware might make you pay more and might be unbalanced, but at least they use good quality components and actually looks like they put care and effort into the systems they build, even creating custom PCBs, cases, and software. And I'll applaud their efforts over iBuyPower's DREADFUL cable management any day of the week

[SaladFingers]

"I put that case with the window on it, just so you can see the professional cable management I did"

 

edit: 130 bucks for 16gb of PNY ddr3 memory???? One can get 16gb of ddr4 memory of the likes of g.skill or even corsair at that price or with like, 10 bucks more...