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I live in California and I saw a computer I wanted off micro center do you think that i can buy it online and get it shipped to my house? Is microcenter legit?

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Micro Center is a legitimate business. They have a store that you can drive down to in Orange County.

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yes, they are a reliable company

-BUT BUILD YOUR OWN. SO MUCH CHEAPER $$$

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I have gone to Micro Center to pickup a CPU and a mobo before. I would like to go there again to by some more parts.

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I live in California and I saw a computer I wanted off micro center do you think that i can buy it online and get it shipped to my house? Is microcenter legit?

depends on your location.
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I have gone to Micro Center to pickup a CPU and a mobo before. I would like to go there again to by some more parts.

lol then why did you ask?
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yes, they are a reliable company

-BUT BUILD YOUR OWN. SO MUCH CHEAPER $$$

The microcenter near my house puts many PC parts and PCs on sale,my dad bought a work computer there. And in no world could I have built it cheaper, in fact it would have been $410 more expensive to build it.

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I live in California and I saw a computer I wanted off micro center do you think that i can buy it online and get it shipped to my house? Is microcenter legit?

Microcenter is legit, pretty cool place actually. Just remember that a lot of items are in-store only, so you might have to go to a Microcenter to pick up your purchase.

*Risky click of the day*

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The microcenter near my house puts many PC parts and PCs on sale,my dad bought a work computer there. And in no world could I have built it cheaper, in fact it would have been $410 more expensive to build it.

specs?

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The Friend PC G3258 @ 4.3 || Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X || EVGA 600B || 8 GB Dell Ram || Cooler Master N200 || ASRock H97M- iTX/ac

The Mom Gaming PC A10-7890K @ 4.4 || iGPU + ASUS R7 250 ||  8 GB Klevv DDR3-2800 Mhz

 

 

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specs?

I do not know at the current moment. But I'm positive that is has an I7-4790, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB SSHD, mediocre motherboard, windows 7 Pro(needs to be included because this is $100 in custom builds) and some 600 series Nvidea card. Bought it for $490- $530 with tax. Also the case is nice with toggle able LEDs. It is a Gateway PC.

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I drive 2 hours quite often to go to the closest Microcenter.  They are quite legit.  The last of the real computer stores in my opinion. 

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I preferred online still because the taxes raises up the prices too much for me. Newegg doesn't tax it.

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I have gone to Micro Center to pickup a CPU and a mobo before. I would like to go there again to by some more parts.

Goes for CPU and mobo. Ends up with new keyboard, gpu, case, and headset. :)

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Goes for CPU and mobo. Ends up with new keyboard, gpu, case, and headset. :)

So I am not the only one that sometimes can buy things that I don't need.....

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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