Question: Build your Own or Buy Complete?

[RexDameon]

I used to be the guy who always built my own PC.

But after looking at the cost i realized that it's A LOT cheeper to get a refurbed gateway from tigerdirect and then just upgrade it later as needed.

I bought mine 2 years ago for under 500 and havn't needed to upgrade it yet.

Instead got my wife her own system including a 20" monitor with slightly better stats then mine for 600$

came with windows which when you do stuff legally and need it to play entropia and other windows only software saves you over 100$ cause they pretty much give it to you for free.

i hear newegg.com is good to if your in the states.

[rumsponge]

Actually, we have TigerDirect stores here and they just bought out CompUSA. Newegg.com is decent and Frys Electronics stores are incredible. Even Bestbuy has been offering some gaming pcs.

[seanjohn]

Originally Posted by rumsponge

Actually, we have TigerDirect stores here and they just bought out CompUSA. Newegg.com is decent and Frys Electronics stores are incredible. Even Bestbuy has been offering some gaming pcs.

sure tehy may be selling but what kind of gaming are they basic advanced or super? i find that the memory thye put in there sucks really bad. i had mem in a comp i bough there with like 166 mhz it was slow as heck!
so be careful

[sebasrb]

i always used to make my own rig even if my system is more expensive than a already made one... I always want to be sure what i have on my "UFO" i do it like this and no one can take it out of my head

[heineken]

i build my own. never had issues besides when i tried to go cheap on case/power supply bundle..hehe...replaced them with a better deserving one and have no issues since.

[Zwarka]

In the past my PCs was all buyed complete
and later upgraded with more Memory or a
newer Video-Card as long as this was use-
full.







Greetings - Zwarka

[Skam]

Awww its closed already! I would have answered "Have my pet geek make one for me!" of course.

The rig Im currently on was built by some dude at a computer store here, but ever since I bought it I kept getting bluescreen when some items (webcam, ipod) was plugged into my usb ports. And even if the guy checked it and all, we just couldn't fix it.
Until my pet geek, 2 1/2 years later, vacuums my PC, and miraculously it doesnt bluescreen anymore So I feel safe if I ask him to build it. He fix things even when he doesnt intend to

[Zwarka]

Originally Posted by Skam

He fix things even when he doesnt intend to

Service on a top rated Level








Greetings - Zwarka

[AlexGold]

Originally Posted by Skam

Awww its closed already! I would have answered "Have my pet geek make one for me!" of course.

The rig Im currently on was built by some dude at a computer store here, but ever since I bought it I kept getting bluescreen when some items (webcam, ipod) was plugged into my usb ports. And even if the guy checked it and all, we just couldn't fix it.
Until my pet geek, 2 1/2 years later, vacuums my PC, and miraculously it doesnt bluescreen anymore So I feel safe if I ask him to build it. He fix things even when he doesnt intend to

Ohh I want a pet like that. Where did u get urs from ?

[Fail Whale]

Cost wise this depends on how much you value your own time as building from scratch to get a good system takes masses of research on what the best hardware is for the money and wether it is compatible with the rest of the system. Poorly compatiblehardware can take rediculous amounts of resources to work. then add on the build time and possibly the time taken to make it actually work or replace DOA hardware and the non OEM OS costs which can be considerably higher. This often actually removes any advantage from building the system yourself other than the pride you have in your machine when it is built by your own hands.