Would you rather build your own PC?

[Fictionvl]

Hello,

 

So I'm soon going to be building a whole new PC, a mid-high end one, using the latest and greatest from Intel and Nvidia, and I have built many systems before, but never built something to this caliber, most of my builds were of low-mid end range

 

I'm going to be buying all of these parts from a local store here in UAE and they offer free PC building, so I was wondering would I let them build it or should I take things to my own hands? since I'll be doing a whole set-up in my room. 

so what do you think? 

[Subduck]

If they build it and break something, they surely have to replace it. Might as well let them do it.

[Fictionvl]

Just now, Subduck said:

If they build it a break something, they surely have to replace it. Might as well let them do it.

Yeah thats what I thought, since its a really expensive build, why risk it? 

[m0k]

theres a certain...intangible satisfaction one has with him/herself when he/she builds their own pc

i think you should build it yourself - its not very difficult

if youre terrified of the building process and the store has a good reputation you can let them build it

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Well, I'd see what their fine print is in case they disclaim all liability for some stupid reason.

[MrDrWho13]

I really enjoy PC building but can't deny free stuff!

[Hybris5112]

The only reason I would pay to have a system built is because of time constraints. I paid a $100 for my first build to be assymbled simply because my shift at work was understaffed and I was pulling 14-16 hour days which leaved little room for system building.

Besides that scenario go ahead and build it yourself.

 

Edit: The point about liability would be another thing that might be drive me to pay for a build but double check the paperwork to be sure you are covered.

[openthatchest]

3 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Hello,

 

So I'm soon going to be building a whole new PC, a mid-high end one, using the latest and greatest from Intel and Nvidia, and I have built many systems before, but never built something to this caliber, most of my builds were of low-mid end range

 

I'm going to be buying all of these parts from a local store here in UAE and they offer free PC building, so I was wondering would I let them build it or should I take things to my own hands? since I'll be doing a whole set-up in my room. 

so what do you think? 

Get a tutorial ready if you are going to do it. it is very difficult even if you think you know a lot about PC's. every build, you will learn something new. 

 

If they do it, will they do :

1. Cable mgmt
2. an actually good job

No real setbacks unless they don't do cable management. 

 

I would do it myself, but that's just me...

[RonaldMcDank120]

8 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Hello,

 

So I'm soon going to be building a whole new PC, a mid-high end one, using the latest and greatest from Intel and Nvidia, and I have built many systems before, but never built something to this caliber, most of my builds were of low-mid end range

 

I'm going to be buying all of these parts from a local store here in UAE and they offer free PC building, so I was wondering would I let them build it or should I take things to my own hands? since I'll be doing a whole set-up in my room. 

so what do you think? 

If its gonna cost extra there is no point, you've built all your systems in the past and nothing went wrong the only thing that has changed now is the parts are more expensive.

[TVwazhere]

9 minutes ago, mok said:

theres a certain...intangible satisfaction one has with him/herself when he/she builds their own pc

That moment where after spending four hours building, disassembling, re building, re disassembling and re-rebuilding because you installed your cooler wrong, didnt seat the GPU right and forgot to plug the RAM slots in the correct dimm slots, and you boot it up for the first (seventh) time, and it actually works, its indescribable. 

[dizmo]

It's free, might as well let them do it. Then you don't have to worry about DOA parts.

If you want to do it yourself it's stupid easy.

5 minutes ago, RonaldMcDank120 said:

If its gonna cost extra there is no point, you've built all your systems in the past and nothing went wrong the only thing that has changed now is the parts are more expensive.

It clearly states it's free...

[Trickster1]

25 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Hello,

 

So I'm soon going to be building a whole new PC, a mid-high end one, using the latest and greatest from Intel and Nvidia, and I have built many systems before, but never built something to this caliber, most of my builds were of low-mid end range

 

I'm going to be buying all of these parts from a local store here in UAE and they offer free PC building, so I was wondering would I let them build it or should I take things to my own hands? since I'll be doing a whole set-up in my room. 

so what do you think? 

Building your PC allows you to get to know what you are really going to be using. And in any case you want to part swap, you will know how to  ^ and its free, so why not

[Armakar]

I'd built it myself, reguardless of the price, the exception being a custom watercooling loop.

 

It's fun, and you know better where everything in your build is, what every wire looks like, where every header is. Makes it easier to troubleshoot in the future.

[SeanAngelo]

28 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Hello,

 

So I'm soon going to be building a whole new PC, a mid-high end one, using the latest and greatest from Intel and Nvidia, and I have built many systems before, but never built something to this caliber, most of my builds were of low-mid end range

 

I'm going to be buying all of these parts from a local store here in UAE and they offer free PC building, so I was wondering would I let them build it or should I take things to my own hands? since I'll be doing a whole set-up in my room. 

so what do you think? 

depends how confident you are.

 

personally, i'd rather build it cause i find it fun

[Sauron]

I would WANT to build it myself, but if you're not very confident there's nothing wrong with letting them do it if they don't charge much.

[Morgoth97]

I live in the UAE too, I personally sourced my parts abroad because prices in the UAE are too damn high and I can’t find specific parts.

 

I have cousins that had their PCs built in the UAE, it really depends where you go but after inspecting their PCs, I wasn’t too impressed by cable management and parts selection. For example one of them had an unlocked CPU but on a non overclocking motherboard.

 

[Ashiella]

Building is half the fun to me.

[Fictionvl]

18 minutes ago, Morgoth97 said:

I live in the UAE too, I personally sourced my parts abroad because prices in the UAE are too damn high and I can’t find specific parts.

 

I have cousins that had their PCs built in the UAE, it really depends where you go but after inspecting their PCs, I wasn’t too impressed by cable management and parts selection. For example one of them had an unlocked CPU but on a non overclocking motherboard.

 

 

How much of a price difference was it? I'm planning to buy from Microlass (dtcae before)

[Morgoth97]

21 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

 

How much of a price difference was it? I'm planning to buy from Microlass (dtcae before)

 

About 2000 AED, but the system costed 15000 AED overall so you need to take that to account. 

Also, I’d probably not have saved anything if the UAE customs did their job properly because they didn’t Tax a lot of my parts expensive parts such as the CPU simply because it didn’t look like it was expensive; it came in an OEM package.

 

Microless don’t have bad prices but their website doesn’t accurately show you which parts are in stock and out of stock so I would give them a ring before ordering.

I ordered a Chassis and haven’t received it in a month despite their “one day shipping” so I gave them a call and turns out the part was out of stock despite the website saying it was in stock.

 

[Fictionvl]

26 minutes ago, Morgoth97 said:

 

About 2000 AED, but the system costed 15000 AED overall so you need to take that to account. 

Also, I’d probably not have saved anything if the UAE customs did their job properly because they didn’t Tax a lot of my parts expensive parts such as the CPU simply because it didn’t look like it was expensive; it came in an OEM package.

 

Microless don’t have bad prices but their website doesn’t accurately show you which parts are in stock and out of stock so I would give them a ring before ordering.

I ordered a Chassis and haven’t received it in a month despite their “one day shipping” so I gave them a call and turns out the part was out of stock despite the website saying it was in stock.

 

 

I've ordered from them many times and i had no issues with them whats so ever. I'm planning on building a 10k AED PC, would you recommend ordering online or just building from microlass?