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If you're going prebuilt, you can afford to throw around money. If you can afford to throw around money, you can just not think about the parts you buy and get
by snagglegaggle 7y ago
If you're going prebuilt, you can afford to throw around money. If you can afford to throw around money, you can just not think about the parts you buy and get the most expensive a la carte parts and end off better.
Then, putting them together takes maybe thirty minutes?
Going prebuilt for a desktop is never worth it.
- nsxwolf 7y agoHaving a computer that's already ready to go, and any problems are dealt with via a single supplier? I'd pay a couple hundred extra at least for that.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThat's kind of optimistic. The only service that does this I know of is the Dell enterprise agreement. Computer breaks, they fix it within a few hours or give you a loaner. Anything else you're looking at at least 2 weeks. Typically it's better to just buy another machine or buy more parts then repurpose the fixed one.
- distances 7y ago> Then, putting them together takes maybe thirty minutes? Getting the cabling in neat order takes that 30 mins alone. So does CPU+cooler installation. I always reserve a whole afternoon+evening for full computer rebuilds. Then again, that happens every 5-8 years so I'm always a bit rusty when starting. Also, never had a prebuilt so could be they aren't as clean with the cabling of course.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThey're definitely not that clean. The wires are just shoved in there. Maybe not will some high end Dell servers. You can do the same in your builds, too -- only time it matters is if you're ricing a uATX case. It could be over 30 minutes for sure, but at most an hour or two unless you've never done it and have no idea what the parts do. But just looking at the parts on Amazon or whatever, I see a lot of people figure out where they go in their head.