premade pc's-overpriced & underpowered

[intergalacticman]

recently, i was looking into a gaming system for myself.
the price on newegg w/o a case (i make my own) is 750$
similar computers cost
dell= 1,300$
HP= 1,500$
gateway=1,450$
velocity micro=1,800$
im glad at my vast knowlege of BYOS, which save me alot of money, but i feel bad for the average consumer who cant tell ddr2 from fsb800

[RSzetec]

Yeah tell me about it, my mum bought a dell with a pentium 4 2.4ghz(i think) 1024 mb ram 150gb hdd and no gfx card cost her 1000, i got mine:2.4ghz amd athlon 64 fx, 1024mb ram, nvidia geforce 5200(not the best but upgrading soon) and pci express + agp motherboard for about 250 pounds

[public_eyesore]

yea, my gaming pc I had a few months ago was like 1500 on the egg, but 2300 from cyber power, and it wasn't even equivilent(didn't have the asus p5w dh deluxe like i had bought).

[Aero]

lol, I bought my PC back in the day when both my parents and I didn't trust me to put it togather myself. That was several years ago, the day before they announced the "brand new" PCI-E cards..which made my brand spanken new $500 9800 XT look like crap...and drop $150...

Anyway, back then Cyberpower had good deals, I got my PC for about $1600 total (thats with my 19 in LCD). But now their prices are worse, plus I would much rather build now that I know how :p.

[bartvandenberg]

Oh.. the beauty of knowing better than to buy a premade computer. thats why those of us who know, dont get scammed.

[tybrenis]

So true. I built my first computer out of old scrap parts when I was 11 and convinced my parents I knew how and wouldn't **** it up. Since then I've always built my own and for a few friends, it amazes me that my dad payed 1500 dollars are Dell for a computer nowhere near as fast as my 700 dollar one.

PS: Bart your sig is way too wide. Not to be a pain in the ass but it when it widens the page for me, I can tell it's over size limits. Read el rulos.

[AKA_RA]

premade anything is usually over rated. its often times a dulled down reproduction of a once great idea, that is mass produced and shipped to best buy or the likes. example: stock modified cases you get on xoxide.com

[Omega]

BYOS? What's a BYOS?

Do you mean... BIOS?


Anywho -- yeah, alot better to make your own rigs =/

[Omega]

BYOS = Build Your Own System

Ah, that answers it.

[Crimson Sky]

Sure, I can build a PC, but would I do it for my family?..No way.

Dells and the like come with warranty and customer support for hardware and software. I refuse to be anyone's PC tech. if you build one for them, they always come back with problems.