Would there happen to be a GTriber discount NZXT? I am so tempted to cancel my order that I have "elsewhere" if it were not for the price of a similar build being $600 cheaper there.
This BLD is almost spot on to the one I have on order now other than a 1000W PSU instead of the 850 in this BLD
The short answer is no, buy computers from me if your in Western Canada ;P You get that friendly neighborhood style service and it's only a $50 build fee instead of the ridiculous upcharges that you see on prebuilds from places like dell, hp, seanix etc.
They are mostly worth it if you don't want to pay the high cause of gpu and you need a desktop now. Other wise be cheaper to wait and see if the price of gpu and ram would decrease.
@Andrew Lane. Andrew so true, so true. I worked at place that was 1/2 office, 1/2 shipping warehouse, and the amount of dust in the computers was unreal. They had HP desktops (office and warehouse) and were slow as anything, and had zero air flow. Quite a few times they had error messages and such, I would go to the local computer shop and grab some $8 -$10 case fans that fit in the desktops and used the air compressor to blow out the dust.....after that what a difference in the airflow.
The marketing guy had one of these desktops was upgraded in memory, etc. Still his desktop was slow. I built a desktop for him from the ground up, Thermatake case, AMD processor, SATA drive, 16GB memory, etc. Nothing too fancy approximately spent $500.00 or so total. Machine worked like it was on steroids. He was gobsmacked beyond belief, did not realize that machines like this worked.....I informed him that this is the difference between off the shelf from computer companies and built from the ground up. PC was faster than his own personal MAC.
I got my first prebuit PC back in 1986 - An IBM XT. Cost me $3000. A few years after that I got into an after school job making PC's and built my first PC for myself. I was able to scrap what I didn't need to cut the cost and it ran smoother than many of the prebuilt PC's that I was on call to fix. (It was a intel 386). After that I had another PC Building job thru late highschool where I started getting requests for Custom PC's that were: a) Cheaper than Prebuilt b) More relaible and c) Easier to fix See More
Fixing prebuilt HP's/Dells was a pain in the rear end because in a lot of them were parts that could not be replaced with standard components (RAM for HP's was crazy - weird shapes, insane configs etc). Custom PC's that I built for myself and customers have always been better, because you can decide not to install bloatware and crappy utils that really don't do what they are supposed to, and hardware that suits the purpose. When VESA was introduced, it got better, then PCI, PCIe etc all made things better. Premade PC's nowadays are much better - I have to admit - Most companies now use standard components that are easily replaced/exchanged/upgraded, but there are still a lot of crap that goes into them that's unnecessary and when you build your own (or when I have customers, they come in and help/watch to learn), it's more rewarding. If you haven't got the time to build your own, Premades are OK - but make sure you know what you are getting - if not talk to your tech and get what you really need. If you have the time and money to build it yourself, it's a very cool thing.
I would just like to point out that there is a difference between PCs built by companies such as NZXT and other System Integrators and PCs built by companies such as Dell and HP. Dell and HP tend to use the cheapest components and custom boards to keep their costs down while NZXT and the like use off the shelf components. This leads to higher quality (and costing) from NZXT and other SI so your experience will be better then what you would get from Dell or HP.
I just built a new pc last year, and now it’s already outdated. I need a new pc and it will cost me more thank $3k for what I want in it. I wish I had a tree that grew money. Being a disabled person has way too many drawbacks.
Love Jay.
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Would there happen to be a GTriber discount NZXT? I am so tempted to cancel my order that I have "elsewhere" if it were not for the price of a similar build being $600 cheaper there.
This BLD is almost spot on to the one I have on order now other than a 1000W PSU instead of the 850 in this BLD
www.letsbld.com/BLD/shared/8923124206
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The short answer is no, buy computers from me if your in Western Canada ;P You get that friendly neighborhood style service and it's only a $50 build fee instead of the ridiculous upcharges that you see on prebuilds from places like dell, hp, seanix etc.
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They are mostly worth it if you don't want to pay the high cause of gpu and you need a desktop now. Other wise be cheaper to wait and see if the price of gpu and ram would decrease.
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@Andrew Lane. Andrew so true, so true. I worked at place that was 1/2 office, 1/2 shipping warehouse, and the amount of dust in the computers was unreal. They had HP desktops (office and warehouse) and were slow as anything, and had zero air flow. Quite a few times they had error messages and such, I would go to the local computer shop and grab some $8 -$10 case fans that fit in the desktops and used the air compressor to blow out the dust.....after that what a difference in the airflow.
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The marketing guy had one of these desktops was upgraded in memory, etc. Still his desktop was slow. I built a desktop for him from the ground up, Thermatake case, AMD processor, SATA drive, 16GB memory, etc. Nothing too fancy approximately spent $500.00 or so total. Machine worked like it was on steroids. He was gobsmacked beyond belief, did not realize that machines like this worked.....I informed him that this is the difference between off the shelf from computer companies and built from the ground up. PC was faster than his own personal MAC.
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My 1st pre-built computer was a Amd K6 and damn it was epic and fast
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I got my first prebuit PC back in 1986 - An IBM XT. Cost me $3000.
A few years after that I got into an after school job making PC's and built my first PC for myself. I was able to scrap what I didn't need to cut the cost and it ran smoother than many of the prebuilt PC's that I was on call to fix. (It was a intel 386).
After that I had another PC Building job thru late highschool where I started getting requests for Custom PC's that were:
a) Cheaper than Prebuilt
b) More relaible
and
c) Easier to fix
See More
Fixing prebuilt HP's/Dells was a pain in the rear end because in a lot of them were parts that could not be replaced with standard components (RAM for HP's was crazy - weird shapes, insane configs etc).
Custom PC's that I built for myself and customers have always been better, because you can decide not to install bloatware and crappy utils that really don't do what they are supposed to, and hardware that suits the purpose.
When VESA was introduced, it got better, then PCI, PCIe etc all made things better.
Premade PC's nowadays are much better - I have to admit - Most companies now use standard components that are easily replaced/exchanged/upgraded, but there are still a lot of crap that goes into them that's unnecessary and when you build your own (or when I have customers, they come in and help/watch to learn), it's more rewarding.
If you haven't got the time to build your own, Premades are OK - but make sure you know what you are getting - if not talk to your tech and get what you really need.
If you have the time and money to build it yourself, it's a very cool thing.
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I would just like to point out that there is a difference between PCs built by companies such as NZXT and other System Integrators and PCs built by companies such as Dell and HP. Dell and HP tend to use the cheapest components and custom boards to keep their costs down while NZXT and the like use off the shelf components. This leads to higher quality (and costing) from NZXT and other SI so your experience will be better then what you would get from Dell or HP.
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last sentence to explain the difference lol
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Building by hand is more rewarding. I have had pre built pc and it doesn't seem to last. like it was outdated soon after purchase
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I just built a new pc last year, and now it’s already outdated. I need a new pc and it will cost me more thank $3k for what I want in it. I wish I had a tree that grew money. Being a disabled person has way too many drawbacks.
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