HELP!

[Gino942]

I am writing an essay on why you should build a gaming PC and not buy one from a store. any ideas on what I should talk about?

[SlackAssassin]

Lower price, more customisation

[GDRRiley]

more options and better confiurations ex: you don't need a i7 and a gt740

[Gino942]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

more options and better confiurations ex: you don't need a i7 and a gt740

i already said that but thanks!

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, Gino942 said:

i already said that but thanks!

not in the OG post.

[RedWulf]

Just the typically excessive fees, markups, and tricks/snake oil. Honestly, not everyone should build their own, but aside from the cost mark up 

 

Often not overclocked, if it is its not to the best it could be

mismatched parts for gaming, no game needs an i7 6950x 

snake oil, 'gaming ram' is not a valid product

lights!!!! alot of prebuilt systems offer looks over performance 

meaningless features, 'super fast thunderbolt' isn't needed for desktop gaming

[Tazman192]

A few points:

 

• You can customize it how you want (color scheme, something crazy like a desk pc, watercooling loops as you desire, the list goes on).
• It's generally much cheaper
• You can research the components before hand to ensure you're buying good quality ones - prebuilt PC's save by skimping on some crucial components such as PSUs, SSD's, motherboards
  • Buy an unlocked processor so you can overclock and get more performance for your money
  • Same goes for memory/graphics card
• The experience - it's quite straight forward to build your first PC and it opens a whole world of ideas
• You can upgrade whenever you want; if you can build your own PC, you can sure as hell upgrade a PC's components.
• When you buy prebuilts, it comes with a shit load of bloatware. I know this is an easy fix, but still, who likes bloatware?

[Carclis]

Well you certainly chose an interesting topic. Here are some ideas.

 

• Low quality. Pre-builts are often throwaway because they are usually outdated and use bottom end components. This goes without saying, but they cost too much.
• Flexibility. You can build a computer to your use-case scenario.
• RMA. Quite often components individually have better warranties and this also allows you to send them back individually meaning you may still be able to use your computer during that period of time.
• Upgrades (flows on from point 1). Building your own computer gives you the ability to upgrade individual components as they go bad or exceed their usefulness which may not be possible on a pre-built due to proprietary connectors, cheap and barely adequate power supply or even a case that is of inadequate size or airflow.
• Knowledge. Building a computer encourages you to understand the internals a bit better gives you the ability to troubleshoot yourself. Also small things such as knowledge of driver updates resulting in decent performance increases for free which an uninformed user would not know about.
• Resale. Owning a pre-built computer will encourage a user to use it until it comes to a point where the computer is unusable. This is a result of the exorbitant pricing and the large upfront cost of having to buy a whole computer in one purchase. At this point the computer is barely worth selling compared to someone who sold individual components as upgrades were needed.