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I know that almost always building your own PC is cheaper than buying a pre built but since I live in Albania and none of the big sites/shops ship to here and even those who do are really expensive I thought that I could find a pre built PC with a good value that would be overall cheaper and ask a relative bring it here or ship it here.
Edit: I forgot to say, that my relatives are in america,NY to be exact and also my budget is around $1.000.Just to be clear I just want to shops/sites that generally have good value pre-built PC since I am looking to buy in the end of the month when the new video cards come out aswell.

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If you can't find PC parts in Albania, chances are we won't be able to find you a pre-built PC either.

Can you afford to import parts from Italy? If so, give us your budget and we can help you out.

For perspective, here's a value-oriented 1080p gaming build using parts available from Amazon Italy:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€172.81 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€54.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€28.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€44.55 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card  (€179.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (€29.90 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€55.32 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €564.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 21:26 CEST+0200

 

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Cooler Master NR200P v2 | ID Cooling Zoomflow 280 XT | SeaSonic Focus SGX-750 | Thermalright 2x140mm + 2x120mm aRGB

LG C2 OLED 48" 120hz | Epomaker TH80 (Gateron Yellow) | Logitech MX Master 3 | Koss Porta Pro Comm

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9 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

If you can't find PC parts in Albania, chances are we won't be able to find you a pre-built PC either.

Can you afford to import parts from Italy? If so, give us your budget and we can help you out.

For perspective, here's a value-oriented 1080p gaming build using parts available from Amazon Italy:
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€172.81 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€54.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€28.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€44.55 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card  (€179.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (€29.90 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€55.32 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €564.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 16:12 CEST+0200

Please avoid Asus and Gigabrick for 300 series cards. Please. 

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23 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Please avoid Asus and Gigabrick for 300 series cards. Please. 

There aren't any other 380s available where he is, so I swapped it out for a Zotac GTX 960.

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LG C2 OLED 48" 120hz | Epomaker TH80 (Gateron Yellow) | Logitech MX Master 3 | Koss Porta Pro Comm

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1 hour ago, Aereldor said:

There aren't any other 380s available where he is, so I swapped it out for a Zotac GTX 960.

Oh ffs.... Asus it is if it can deal with meh temps and quite a shitty cooler (lesser of two evils amiright?)

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2 hours ago, Flori_Killer said:

I know that almost always building your own PC is cheaper than buying a pre built but since I live in Albania and none of the big sites/shops ship to here and even those who do are really expensive I thought that I could find a pre built PC with a good value that would be overall cheaper and ask a relative bring it here or ship it here.
Edit: I forgot to say, that my relatives are in america,NY to be exact and also my budget is around $1.000.Just to be clear I just want to shops/sites that generally have good value pre-built PC since I am looking to buy in the end of the month when the new video cards come out aswell.

Due to your later edit, I would say that going for the absolute best parts in that budget would be a must.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($102.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: *Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($317.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $878.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 12:44 EDT-0400

 

Given that the total price of this build is around $880, you can swap the HDD for a SSHD/SSD, add more SSD storage, add 16GB of RAM, change the AMD GPU to a Nvidia GPU, and so on.

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3 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Oh ffs.... Asus it is if it can deal with meh temps and quite a shitty cooler (lesser of two evils amiright?)

I thought you meant there were serious quality-control issues and bricked cards. Way to sound the alarm, mate.

i5 12600KF | Zotac RTX 4080 Gaming trinity | Team Vulcan 2x16GB DDR4 3600 | ASRock Z690M-ITX/ac | WD Black SN850x 2TB

Cooler Master NR200P v2 | ID Cooling Zoomflow 280 XT | SeaSonic Focus SGX-750 | Thermalright 2x140mm + 2x120mm aRGB

LG C2 OLED 48" 120hz | Epomaker TH80 (Gateron Yellow) | Logitech MX Master 3 | Koss Porta Pro Comm

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1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

I thought you meant there were serious quality-control issues and bricked cards. Way to sound the alarm, mate.

:P

I never meant to come across that way but I've seen many people bitching about Asus 300 series cards in that they overheat and thermal throttle constantly. 

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