Hey, generally im use to always thinking of building your own pc is a better bang for the buck and get better components.
Running around bestbuy though i came across some fairly nicely specced computers at a good price, prices that beat build your own. now i would figure that the parts used are obviously not as high quality as if you would build your own but for non OCing uses what makes one of these prebuilt systems far inferior to build your owns? for the price i cant beat it. as an example i was looking at this HP, HP - Media Center TV Desktop with Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 - m8430f
q6600, 4gb ram 750gb HD, decent to **** graphics card. but all for 1000, with vista keyboard mouse, wireless lan and other little stuff that youd prolly skip over building your own, tv tuner media card reader, the things that can qucikly raise the price, and are not completely useless.
as an entire package i look at the 950 price tag pretty darn good compared to building your own computer of the equivalent. What advtages are over of building your own PC? price wise. are these components in the HP so more inferior in quality? i would figure the q6600 runs just like any other q6600, the 4gb ram will run as intended for 4gb, minus any real ability to OC, etc etc
thoughts? because if i cant see a clear reason to build my own over a prebuilt one from bestbuy, i might as well take the one from best buy. Whcih is normally contradictting the way i think
Running around bestbuy though i came across some fairly nicely specced computers at a good price, prices that beat build your own. now i would figure that the parts used are obviously not as high quality as if you would build your own but for non OCing uses what makes one of these prebuilt systems far inferior to build your owns? for the price i cant beat it. as an example i was looking at this HP, HP - Media Center TV Desktop with Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 - m8430f
q6600, 4gb ram 750gb HD, decent to **** graphics card. but all for 1000, with vista keyboard mouse, wireless lan and other little stuff that youd prolly skip over building your own, tv tuner media card reader, the things that can qucikly raise the price, and are not completely useless.
as an entire package i look at the 950 price tag pretty darn good compared to building your own computer of the equivalent. What advtages are over of building your own PC? price wise. are these components in the HP so more inferior in quality? i would figure the q6600 runs just like any other q6600, the 4gb ram will run as intended for 4gb, minus any real ability to OC, etc etc
thoughts? because if i cant see a clear reason to build my own over a prebuilt one from bestbuy, i might as well take the one from best buy. Whcih is normally contradictting the way i think