I am planning on getting a new gaming PC, but I have been on the fence for the past couple months as whether to buy a prebuilt model or building my own. Mind you, before a month ago, I knew nothing about how a PC worked. I'm serious, I didn't even know what a motherboard did, I thought a sound card was required for audio, etc, etc.
I started to do a little research, and decided to build my own. However, when I went on youtube to watch a 40 minute video of a guy building his PC, I felt completely overwhelmed. Somewhere in between thermal paste and discharging your static electricity, I was out. I'm not the brightest guy, and I just knew I would somehow screw it up.
At this point, I decided to go for a prebuilt model. I looked into iBuypower, Cyberpower, and the likes. The prices seemed good, but when researching their reputations, their complete lack of customer service was far too common for me to feel secure. I checked out the sites that supposedly had good customer support (your Digital Storms, Alienwares), but the prices were far too high for what I wanted.
Whenever I ran a google search of "best prebuilt gaming PC", I never found any sites, just threads of people asking this question, being met by a chorus of others saying "just build your own, we will help". This is actually how I came to the Toms Hardware forums. You guys seem really nice and smart, so I figured I come to you for help.
WHAT I (think I) WANT
Again, I'm about as noobish as they come concerning building a PC. I decided I wanted a gaming PC when neither the XBOX ONE of PS4 blew me away, so I want a desktop that will be amazing now, but will also be good down the line with newer games. Over the course of my research, I've decided that I'd like:
an i7 Intel Processor
a Radeon R90 290x 4GB
16 GB of RAM
1 TB hard drive with a 64GB SSD (because apparently these make stuff load faster. Again, I'm clueless)
My budget is between 1500 and 2000. Do I want these pieces? Is there something better? Are these out of my price range? I'm looking for a recommendation, along with lots of words of encouragement, telling that that I can "totally do this".
I've really enjoyed reading through some threads here, and I look forward to any and all input. Thanks for your time.
I started to do a little research, and decided to build my own. However, when I went on youtube to watch a 40 minute video of a guy building his PC, I felt completely overwhelmed. Somewhere in between thermal paste and discharging your static electricity, I was out. I'm not the brightest guy, and I just knew I would somehow screw it up.
At this point, I decided to go for a prebuilt model. I looked into iBuypower, Cyberpower, and the likes. The prices seemed good, but when researching their reputations, their complete lack of customer service was far too common for me to feel secure. I checked out the sites that supposedly had good customer support (your Digital Storms, Alienwares), but the prices were far too high for what I wanted.
Whenever I ran a google search of "best prebuilt gaming PC", I never found any sites, just threads of people asking this question, being met by a chorus of others saying "just build your own, we will help". This is actually how I came to the Toms Hardware forums. You guys seem really nice and smart, so I figured I come to you for help.
WHAT I (think I) WANT
Again, I'm about as noobish as they come concerning building a PC. I decided I wanted a gaming PC when neither the XBOX ONE of PS4 blew me away, so I want a desktop that will be amazing now, but will also be good down the line with newer games. Over the course of my research, I've decided that I'd like:
an i7 Intel Processor
a Radeon R90 290x 4GB
16 GB of RAM
1 TB hard drive with a 64GB SSD (because apparently these make stuff load faster. Again, I'm clueless)
My budget is between 1500 and 2000. Do I want these pieces? Is there something better? Are these out of my price range? I'm looking for a recommendation, along with lots of words of encouragement, telling that that I can "totally do this".
I've really enjoyed reading through some threads here, and I look forward to any and all input. Thanks for your time.