It looks like this is all about prebuilts, and IMO unless you are going to nitpick on $/performance and whatever case they give you, all the prebuilts are more

It looks like this is all about prebuilts, and IMO unless you are going to nitpick on $/performance and whatever case they give you, all the prebuilts are more or less interchangeable, especially if you are playing on 1080p. What you really need to consider, and where this Ars guide falls short, is on the vendor's support after you buy. Although I did not find an easy summary screen while scrubbing through the video and I am too lazy to compile one myself, the gulf between good and bad is is almost absurd. Definitely check out Linus Tech Tip's video where they buy a prebuilt system from a variety of vendors and put their support agents through a live fire support call for a routine shipping issue (memory falling out of the slot). Also quite telling is that this is the second time they have done it, and not many of the vendors have bothered to improve their process from the first go around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ViO0ETvfEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ViO0ETvfEc