manofchalk :
Pre-built rigs are bashed on for good reasons, often they are horribly unbalanced (way too much CPU grunt and RAM) with low/mid-range graphics cards and use very questionable PSU's to say the least. The only prebuilts I would consider are from your more "boutique" stores, even then with a bit of skepticism.
Your much better of building one on your own, at least then you wont get charged for half way decent cable management.
Do you have any intention of overclocking, any particular wants (colour scheme, size, aesthetic, WiFi, etc) for the rig?
Seeing as im newer to building PC's as i have always done gaming on console, i presume i will not overclock it due to the fact that i do not know that much about computers yet...
that being said, as for size and color scheme i could care less, as long as its not just super massive, i'd like to have wifi but it isnt necisarry. so how would this work for what im looking for?
Current $800 PC System Test Configuration
Component Base Settings Overclock Setting
CPU Intel Core i5-3470 (Ivy Bridge): 3.2 GHz Base Clock Rate, 3.6 GHz Turbo Boost, 6 MB Shared L3 Cache, Power-savings enabled 3.8 to 4.0 GHz, Power-savings enabled
CPU Cooler Intel Boxed Heat Sink and Fan Unchanged
Motherboard ASRock Z75 Pro3
LGA 1155, Intel Z75 Express, BIOS: v.P1.90 (07-12-13) Unchanged
RAM 8 GB Team Vulcan DDR3-1600 Kit (2 x 4 GB)
CL 9-9-9-24 XMP at 1.50 V Unchanged
Graphics Gigabyte GV-R928XOC-3GD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB GDDR5
1100 MHz GPU, 1500 MHz (6000 MT/s) Memory 1115 MHz GPU, 1600 MHz (6400 MT/s) GDDR5 Memory
Hard Drive Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1 TB, 7200 RPM, 64 MB Cache Unchanged
Sound Integrated Eight-Channel HD Audio Unchanged
Network Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Unchanged
Power EVGA 500 B 100-B1-0500-KR 500 W
Unchanged
Optical Lite-On 24x DVD Burner SATA iHAS124-04 Unchanged
Software and Drivers
Operating System Windows 8 Professional x64 Unchanged
Graphics Driver AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta 9.4 Unchanged
Platform Driver Intel Inf. v. 9.4.0.1017 Unchanged
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