Make a PC or get prebuilt?

[Awsomestar123456]

I am not sure if I should get a prebuild PC from costco, amazon, or cyperpower pc. I am wondering if you guys would recommend building a pc? I am afraid I will get faulty parts or will not install something correctly. What is your guys opinion?

[LienusLateTips]

3 minutes ago, Awsomestar123456 said:

I am not sure if I should get a prebuild PC from costco, amazon, or cyperpower pc.

Dell is nice

 

3 minutes ago, Awsomestar123456 said:

I am afraid I will get faulty parts 

RMA it

 

4 minutes ago, Awsomestar123456 said:

or will not install something correctly. What is your guys opinion?

literally they are basically legos if you are told where to plug things in, just ask us

[Evolution.]

Live a little and build it fam 

[Imbellis]

4 minutes ago, Awsomestar123456 said:

I am not sure if I should get a prebuild PC from costco, amazon, or cyperpower pc. I am wondering if you guys would recommend building a pc? I am afraid I will get faulty parts or will not install something correctly. What is your guys opinion?

The chance of getting a faulty part is very low. As for installing parts correctly, LTT and others have full build guides that go into every detail needed.

However, if you want to build a computer and you are new to it, I'd set apart ~5 hours for building. It can take less than 20 minutes, but something will go wrong, and it's good to account for it.

 

As for pre-builds, they're alright if you don't want to touch the components, but they can be several hundred dollars more.

3 minutes ago, JDE said:

literally they are basically legos if you are told where to plug things in, just ask us

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I'd also recommend putting together a PCPartpicker list for compatibility, and asking the community to check if parts are compatible.

 

As @JDE said, you can basically ask any question and somebody here will have an answer.

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Imbellis said:

I'd also recommend putting together a PCPartpicker list for compatibility, and asking the community to check if parts are compatible.

And if it's a good deal. The person that is a noob making the list may choose the AMD FX or Intel i5

[Kaigott]

One word:

 

Build.

[MadOverclocker]

Build it! When I built my PC (About like a year) I felt excited and all, The motherboard was faulty. I couldn't RMA it since I just found it lying on the ground... Bought another one for 30 dollars. For me, Prebuilts are WAYY overpriced, while customs are pretty leveled. Old conponents are cheaper and news are cheap and middle (4th gen intel, and others...) are kinda more pricey than new ones. For me, that was the best experience of my life...

[MaxBunny]

14 minutes ago, Awsomestar123456 said:

I am not sure if I should get a prebuild PC from costco, amazon, or cyperpower pc. I am wondering if you guys would recommend building a pc? I am afraid I will get faulty parts or will not install something correctly. What is your guys opinion?

Build your first one. After you know how, feel free to pick up deals from vendors when you see them and change out parts according to your needs.

[aisle9]

There are prebuilts out there now that you could make a case for, particularly on the budget side of gaming. If you just want to buy a case with an i3, a 1050 and 8GB of RAM in it and be done with the thing, you have options. You'll also get full manufacturer support for the entire system, and there is something to be said for that. If the power supply in your prebuilt blows up and takes the motherboard with it, that's on the manufacturer. If the PSU in your custom build blows up and takes your board with it, the PSU manufacturer may or may not (probably not) cover the board that their component nuked.

 

That said, I'd still build a PC. You can do it for less, especially once you start getting to the $600+ price point. Although, if you're not in a rush and can sit and wait for the right deal to pounce on, you can get $600 worth of parts for $450-ish, saving a ton of money over the prebuilt.. You still have RMA warranties from the individual component OEMs, and the odds of being shipped a defective unit, so long as you're buying quality parts and not just the cheapest power supply on the shelf, are pretty low. And, honestly, it's just more fun and more rewarding, and after your first build, it's really not that hard.

[Linksys120n]

Why not both! buy a prebuilt system that doesn't come with an GPU but does come with a pcie 16x slot or 2... (Not too hard to find) then you can buy a GTX 1050 (the kind that doesn't require extra power) then you plug that sucker in like a lego brick.... the result is a 900ish dollar prebuilt for about 700 dollars... (500 for pc 150 to 200 for GPU)