Got mine for less than the cost of the parts bought from the cheapest online store prices.... not including micro center in store sales (no micro center in AZ). Reused my gpu but with a sale the pre built was the most economical way. Esp now with gpu prices!
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.
At this moment in time you find very good pre built deals, because gpu prices are sky high ATM
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They may look good but parts-wise they are more expensive. If you are hardware savvy, better to assemble & build one yourself.
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Got mine for less than the cost of the parts bought from the cheapest online store prices.... not including micro center in store sales (no micro center in AZ). Reused my gpu but with a sale the pre built was the most economical way. Esp now with gpu prices!
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I saving a lot of coin having my last gamer pre-built vs my cost plus shipping for all the same parts I wanted installed.
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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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