- Apr 9, 2013
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My son's birthday is next month, and I have promised to get him a new desktop, as his old one is now several years old.
I have no time on my hands to build a system myself, and while he could probably do it, I don't want to ship him a bunch of components for his birthday. For this reason I am considering a branded gaming PC, in this case a Falcon northwest tiki. I looked around and saw that it got pretty good reviews.
On the other hand I know someone nearby who makes computers and charges 100$ extra for the service.
So my question is, just how overpriced is the baseline ( + GTX 680) tiki? I don't want to spend beyond 2500 dollars, but if the tiki is , say, 600 dollars more than the components are worth, than I'd rather get it custom. On the other hand, if its not that overpriced, I think it would make a better gift (since teenage boys probably care more for aesthetics than we do.)
Also, wiill a 2gb GTX 680 with an i7 3.5 GHZ overclocked processor will cut it for most games on high settings?
I have no time on my hands to build a system myself, and while he could probably do it, I don't want to ship him a bunch of components for his birthday. For this reason I am considering a branded gaming PC, in this case a Falcon northwest tiki. I looked around and saw that it got pretty good reviews.
On the other hand I know someone nearby who makes computers and charges 100$ extra for the service.
So my question is, just how overpriced is the baseline ( + GTX 680) tiki? I don't want to spend beyond 2500 dollars, but if the tiki is , say, 600 dollars more than the components are worth, than I'd rather get it custom. On the other hand, if its not that overpriced, I think it would make a better gift (since teenage boys probably care more for aesthetics than we do.)
Also, wiill a 2gb GTX 680 with an i7 3.5 GHZ overclocked processor will cut it for most games on high settings?
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