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Posted on 2/9/25 at 9:31 am to Dicky
What is a good beginner pre built PC?
I don’t need anything fancy at all, I just a rig that will play games well and I can use a browser on it.
I don’t need anything fancy at all, I just a rig that will play games well and I can use a browser on it.
Posted on 2/9/25 at 6:40 pm to CBandits82
What’s your budget? Do you want to play the latest popular games with ray tracing?
Posted on 2/10/25 at 12:26 am to CBandits82
Steve from Gamers Nexus has me scared to death of ever buying a prebuilt. 
Posted on 2/10/25 at 7:55 am to lsutigerdan
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Steve from Gamers Nexus has me scared to death of ever buying a prebuilt.
The problem with buying a good prebuilt is the only way you can know you’re getting a good value is:
1. They list the exact sku of every included part, no exceptions
AND
2. You’re competent enough to discern whether that part combination is reasonable/sufficient for your needs
AND
3. You spec it out in PCPP to see what the parts would cost in a vacuum.
And at that point, you might as well just build the fricking thing yourself
Posted on 2/10/25 at 10:32 am to Joshjrn
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And at that point, you might as well just build the fricking thing yourself
The best middle ground is to buy all your parts and then just pay a local PC repair shop to build it for you. Typically will cost you an extra $100 or so, which is cheaper than the premium prebuilt companies ultimately charge you for labor.
Also you have a local person you can call and visit if there are issues with build instead of calling nameless customer service people and dealing with RMA process.
This post was edited on 2/10/25 at 10:32 am
Posted on 2/10/25 at 4:04 pm to Joshjrn
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And at that point, you might as well just build the fricking thing yourself
Yeah, I built my most recent one, about 5-6 years old now. I don't mind spending a small premium for someone competent to build it for me though because of my busy schedule. But as Steve and others have shown, even some of the premium high dollar prebuilt companies have some shitty quality control issues with the assembly, terrible airflow & thermals. I am probably going to build my next one when I can get my hands on a 9800x3d and a 5080, but the idea of getting a competent local to assemble it for me sounds like a good option as well.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 1:30 am to lsutigerdan
GN did not hold back.
Do Not Buy: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti GPU Absurdity (Benchmarks & Review)
Do Not Buy: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti GPU Absurdity (Benchmarks & Review)
This post was edited on 2/20/25 at 1:34 am
Posted on 2/20/25 at 10:36 am to UltimateHog
Yea. The manufacturers and retailers are pricing these cards ridiculously high until the retards and desperate people stop buying at their scalped prices. Once the inventory starts sitting on shelves longer than they like the prices will come back down to around the original msrp.
This will probably take 6+ months.
This will probably take 6+ months.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 12:30 pm to LSUGent
Not even so much the pricing just the lack of any kind of generational gains. This gen suuuucks.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 6:09 pm to UltimateHog
Sorry, replied to wrong poster. Will try again in next post. lol
This post was edited on 2/20/25 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 2/20/25 at 6:11 pm to LSUGent
quote:
Yea. The manufacturers and retailers are pricing these cards ridiculously high until the retards and desperate people stop buying at their scalped prices. Once the inventory starts sitting on shelves longer than they like the prices will come back down to around the original msrp.
This will probably take 6+ months.
Nvidia will never let this happen. They will choke product until the next series because "stock" and none of us will be able to get what we want. Then, they create a "shortage" for the next series that mainly go to bots and scalpers and we start the cycle all over again. This will never end until manufacturers and retailers actually care about products going to end users. They don't because they only care about sells.
Posted on 2/20/25 at 8:47 pm to SaintEB
MC here actually has the 5070 Ti in stock for MSRP ($750).
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:05 am to GoGators1995
One 5070ti for $1k and one 5090 for $2.7k here at MC in Marietta.
No thanks.
No thanks.
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:28 am to lazlodawg
Ended up signing up for a waiting list for Nvidia on a FE 5080. Not sure if I'll buy it tho.
Posted on 2/21/25 at 3:08 pm to lazlodawg
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One 5070ti for $1k and one 5090 for $2.7k here at MC in Marietta.
The one in Duluth still had some $750 5070 Tis in stock last night. They're probably gone by now though.
Posted on 2/22/25 at 8:16 am to GoGators1995
The market for used parts and PCs is apparently taken a huge shift in the past week. I had my old PC listed for sale for 4 weeks with only ~50 views per 7 days and maybe a message every 2-3 days about it. Out of nowhere it starts getting ~350 views in the last week and I’m being flooded with messages. The guy that came to get it offered asking price and when I booted it up for him, the CPU started overheating extremely fast. I was shocked being that I’ve never had a single problem with this PC. Guessing the pump decided to go out at the absolute worst time, what are the odds.
The guy didn’t give two shits and was like it’s fine idc. Still gave me asking price and rolled out. I felt terrible ab it but he insisted. Anyways, crazy things going on with the market.
The guy didn’t give two shits and was like it’s fine idc. Still gave me asking price and rolled out. I felt terrible ab it but he insisted. Anyways, crazy things going on with the market.
This post was edited on 2/22/25 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 2/22/25 at 9:19 am to Dicky
Same thing happened around the 30 series release. Even though the 50 series sucks as a generational uplift from the 40 series, no one bought the 40 series, so you have a ton of people sitting on 20 and 30 series builds that are itching for an upgrade. Makes the entire market fricky, being the average PC user isn’t inclined to build DIY.
Posted on 2/22/25 at 7:37 pm to Joshjrn
Yeah 4070 non Supers are up to $700 on Ebay now.
Posted on 2/22/25 at 7:47 pm to GoGators1995
No shite? Time to list mine then.
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