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What's a good place to buy a prebuilt gaming desktop ?

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October 15, 2012

6 Comments • Newest first

skye09

Generally, you are far better off building your own computer except for very few circumstances where you can buy it for near equivalent price ( or less if youre like me and have built so many youre tired of it ). Newegg, Tigerdirect, and even Amazon generally have pretty good prices on hardware. If youre REALLY not confident in building your own ( which isnt by any means "hard" ), then I suggest at the very least you compare the price of what it would cost you to build a computer vs what it would cost you to buy a prebuilt.

Reply October 16, 2012
osiel66

800 watts is vast overkill. 600 will do for just about every computer. ~450 for the average user.

Reply October 16, 2012
osiel66

Or just follow one of the several idiot-proof youtube guides for building a computer. They have made it so almost anyone, regardless of knowledge, can build a computer.

Reply October 16, 2012
jonatan

Don't buy a prebuilt computer, as previously mentioned it's better to build one yourself. And if you can't or want to build your own computer they can probably do it in the store for you (you may have to attach the CPU cooler by yourself though because big CPU-coolers may damage the CPU during transportation).

Just state what specs you want and future upgrades and I'm sure someone here can help you.

Reply October 16, 2012
osiel66

None. Absolutely none. Most people with half common sense make their own computer regardless of its intended use, and no one in their right mind buys a prebuilt computer for gaming. Buying prebuilt for gaming is about as foolish as buying an Apple machine for software compatibility.

Reply October 15, 2012
djpinc19

DELL's XPS desktops http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8500/pd
Mabye the cheapest Alienware X51 configuration http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51/pd.aspx
CyberpowerPC on Newegg http://www.newegg.com/Store/BrandSubCategory.aspx?Brand=12046&SubCategory=10&name=CyberpowerPC-Desktop-PCs

Prebuilt gaming desktops in-general aren't very much liked around here because they're expensive or they have other "problems" - all the big regular Basil Tech posters build their own gaming desktops.

CyberpowerPC, despite being the cheapest of the three, is disliked around here because of inconsistency and poor support - if it doesn't work, then you're going to have a bad time.

Reply October 15, 2012