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I found the premium on these was quite high, although even just buying all the components from a single place added a fair amount to my recent build. Compatibi
by IanCal 10y ago
I found the premium on these was quite high, although even just buying all the components from a single place added a fair amount to my recent build.
Compatibility, price checking and searching are all available with PcPartPicker (UK site: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/ https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/) which saved me an astonishing amount of time.
The hour or two building the machine were worth the few hundred it saved me, but everyone has different priorities.
- Coding_Cat 10y agoI've found that the premium depends on the store and model. Some seem to do relative pricing, others absolute. In the latter case, if you want a big rig it's best to let someone build it for you. Often times in those cases you also get great service because a) if you build PCs for a living you're a computer geek and it's fun to build an insane PC and b) they often use their biggest systems as advertisement. At least, that's what I've seen. +cable management is like black magic to me. If I were to take the money saved as payment for me to get it as nice as those places get it, I'd be below minimum wage.