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You might want to check the warranty on pre-built systems and exactly what they cover. If something does go wrong, you usually have to send the whole system back to them ( often at your own cost ) and wait a week or so while it gets checked out. If you assemble it yourself, you'll have individual warranties on every part you buy. If one of them goes bad, you can RMA it ( shipping costs and turn-around time vary by manufacturer, ) but you don't have to box up an entire...
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Half of it is a wast of money. Gaming right? If so an i7 4770k will be unnecessary as you would not take full advantage of HT and its multiple cores unless you are doing heavy video editing, photoshop, CADD, rendering or anything that is CPU intensive. So an i5 4670K would be the way to go. 16GB of RAM?! 8GB is more than enough for gaming unless you are doing any memory intensive task then 16GB is arguable, even 8GB might still be overkill. With the money you save on those parts and the labor you're paying for iBuyPower you can potentially invest it on a better GPU which would be the game changer for your agenda which is gaming.
 
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RedJaron

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On the surface, it looks like a decent, but overpowered machine for gaming. Then I started investigating.

My biggest problem with this is that the mboard is an H81 chipset. Now, yes, some non-Z chipsets on LGA 1150 can overclock the K chip it's paired with, but the board is seriously lacking some other features I'd want. That PSU is also a Rosewill OEM ( I believe ) which aren't considered terribly good units. It doesn't list the SSD maker, and that might be a little iffy regarding longevity.

The $1300 this is selling for right now is actually pretty close to what you'd pay for piecing this together with the exact same parts. But I wouldn't go that route. If you're willing to pay $1300 for a system and aren't afraid of getting your hands dirty, I'd go more for something like this:

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($117.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Mushkin Chronos 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($137.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 4GB Video Card ($369.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone RV03B-W ATX Full Tower Case ($144.00 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1254.90
 
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My parents rule is that i can buy any prebuilt system with my $2,000 budget but i can not build one because if anything goes wrong i could not fix it. Also i have to get a monitor so this sounded pretty good. If not this computer which one would you recommend
 
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You might want to check the warranty on pre-built systems and exactly what they cover. If something does go wrong, you usually have to send the whole system back to them ( often at your own cost ) and wait a week or so while it gets checked out. If you assemble it yourself, you'll have individual warranties on every part you buy. If one of them goes bad, you can RMA it ( shipping costs and turn-around time vary by manufacturer, ) but you don't have to box up an entire computer system.

So unless you pay for some extra special warranty that involves free overnight shipping both ways for repairs and lifetime service, I don't know that I'd bother with it. If you absolutely must have a pre-built system, I'd check with your local computer specialty shops and see what kind of custom systems they offer. Some stores around me offer free lifetime service and repair and that's a pretty nifty thing to have.
 
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