Help Choosing Between Prebuilts (Please Help!)

lukeo77 · Apr 22, 2013

Hi there

First of all i know that your guys all build your own and you can give me a million reason to do so but ... erm ... no

My Budget is £1000

I want to be able to game with high fps at high settings if not ultra

So the ones i have been looking at are:

http://www.chillblast.com/fusion-yogsblast.html - Customizable

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Thunderbird.html - Customizable (would change case for a Fractal R4

http://www.aria.co.uk/VendorStores//Gladiator+Warbird+660+i5-3570K+4.60GHz+SLI+OC+Gaming+PC+?productId=54541 - Suprised you could get SLI 660's for under £1000

http://www.aria.co.uk/VendorStores//Gladiator+Desolator+660+i5-3570K+4.40GHz+OC+Gaming+PC+?productId=54491

http://www.aria.co.uk/VendorStores//Gladiator+Nemesis+7970+FX-8350+4.40GHz+OC+Gaming+PC+?productId=54483 - Not really a fan of AMD especially as its over budget

http://www.palicomp.co.uk/gaming-pcs/phoenix-i5-vortex.html

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-247-OE&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=2486 - Customized with a Gigabyte 660 TI Windforce, Seagate 1TB, Samsung 840 Series 120gb SSD, BitFenix Shinobi Case Black, Windows 7 Home Premium

Any help is apreciated

Marcopolo123 · Apr 22, 2013

If i had to choose one from those I would buy gtx 660 sli build.
Why you don't want to build one ?

DarkSable · Apr 22, 2013

Just throwing out there, you usually get a BETTER warranty on the parts (and tech support from Tom's) when building vs buying a prebuilt.
It's also EXTREMELY easy; all it takes is a normal Phillips head screw driver, and is no harder than LEGOs were as a kid.

Considering that it gives you way better performance for the same price, and I hopefully alleviated the two most common concerns, what's your trepidation concerning building a computer yourself?

lukeo77 · Apr 23, 2013

Marcopolo123 :

I have heard that micro-stuttering is a problem with 2 cards. Is this just xfire or both?

lukeo77 · Apr 23, 2013

DarkSable :

The problem is that quite a bit of the money will be coming from my parents so if i got anything wrong that damaged a part they would kill me and i dont have the money to pay them back and get a new part. Even if the chances if that happening are small i would rather no take the risk

DarkSable · Apr 23, 2013

That's pretty reasonable. That being said, if you go with good manufacturers that have quality warranties, you should be fine. (I'm thinking of, say, EVGA, who will take back a card that you've put an aftermarket cooler on, overclocked, and blown out because of said overclocking, and be just fine with it.) Also consider the fact that you could build a comparable computer to any of these for less money, thus requiring you to not have to borrow as much from your folks.

That being said, I can certainly understand why you want to not take any risks at all. You're going to see a little bit of microstuttering with any setup, but since both the first, third, and fifth are decent options (though still overpriced), you have a choice. [I have to say, UK prebuilts at least seem to make some sort of sense, and are just overpriced as opposed to stupid. The number of "gaming" prebuilts I see in the US that have something like a non-overclockable i7 and a GTX 640...]

lukeo77 · Apr 23, 2013

DarkSable :

I had a mess with partpicker and this is what i got

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.49 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LK ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£102.92 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.89 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£89.98 @ Dabs)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (£310.98 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN781ND 802.11b/g/n PCI Wi-Fi Adapter (£8.08 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£76.79 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£74.00 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.13 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.39 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1032.63
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-04-23 16:57 BST+0100)

Its basically the same quality of these builds (i think) but its £20 over budget

Is there something im doing wrong or am i just picking the wrong things?

marshallbradley · Apr 23, 2013

The main differences is all the builds you linked are using stock/low quality video cards, whereas your build has a nice, aftermarket, Gigabyte model. The other difference is that somee of the prebuilts you listed don't include an operating system, as well as all having very slow 1066 Mhz RAM.

Having said that, the Chillblast ones do seem like fairly good value, and that's what I'd go for if I had to (the Z11 one with the SSD). I'd much rather go for a single high end video card, than 2 low/medium ones, esp. since the SLi system is about £200 more, without an OS. You can easily install another 670 at a later date if necessary.

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