Best Custom Computer Shop?

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DavidWright05

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I am looking to buy a new computer and With all the parts I want on it, it will run me at least $300 more at the big boys (Dell, HP, etc)

What is the best online customizable computer joint around?

I've looked at TigerDirect and PCsForEveryone. TigerDirect has a lot of bad reviews, and PCsForEveryone appears to be great, but a little more expensive, and people who reviewed it seem to mostly live closeby to it.

Is it also important to live close to the place your getting your custom PC from? (I live in NYC).
 
Yup, it's always best to build your own, or alternatively buy it from your local VAR. That way if anything goes wrong help is close by.
 
I just bought my PC $600 from newegg and $1100 from tigerdirect, Never again will I buy from tiger.
I bought the PC on the 11th, newegg shiped it the same day (which arrived the next buisness day), Tiger did not ship it until yesturday and via standard ground when I payed for 2nd day, I also live in San diego, which is very far for a ground pakage to travel.
They also made lots of errors, how ever out of the 7-8 people I talked to on the phone with to try and get my pakage shipped, about 75% of them were very nice, but they simply made mistakes that only made my life that much more frustrating.
I would think tiger is a good place to go for cetain things price wise for me (no tax and some thing were cheaper then newegg including the CPU being in stock at tiger)

just giving my view on tiger.
 
Yep building your own, will own all pre-built comps for the same price. And you get the experience of building it yourself, you will learn a lot that way.
 
I kind of have been thinking about it to be honest guys

but i am scared too.

I have no experience building my own comp.

plus, how much cheaper will it really be?
 
Well for starters you wouldn't be paying for labour charges as you'd be building it yourself, secondly, I priced up my machine, or rather looked for a pre-built system of the same spec at the time I bought it and after pricing it up seeing how much it would cost if built myself to how much it would cost getting it pre-built, I was saving at minimum a hundred or two.

The only problem with building a PC yourself is if one component goes, it's an absolute nightmare to problem solve if you don't have another machine to test your hardware in. Plus returning components individually can be a bugger and time consuming.

A good idea of how much you'd save would be to spec up a custom machine with a site that builds them for you, see the total price after spec'ing, then spec it out from a website in which you buy the components yourself and assemble them yourself. See the difference in price.
 
Breaks said:
Well for starters you wouldn't be paying for labour charges as you'd be building it yourself, secondly, I priced up my machine, or rather looked for a pre-built system of the same spec at the time I bought it and after pricing it up seeing how much it would cost if built myself to how much it would cost getting it pre-built, I was saving at minimum a hundred or two.

The only problem with building a PC yourself is if one component goes, it's an absolute nightmare to problem solve if you don't have another machine to test your hardware in. Plus returning components individually can be a bugger and time consuming.

A good idea of how much you'd save would be to spec up a custom machine with a site that builds them for you, see the total price after spec'ing, then spec it out from a website in which you buy the components yourself and assemble them yourself. See the difference in price.
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yeah that's what i'm worried about...
 
My computer was built by me,my first build,i just bought parts,put em together(i am not an idiot,i know where goes where),its really simple man,you just gotta know where stuff goes and you're set,alotta fun too :)
 
Iluvpenguins said:
My computer was built by me,my first build,i just bought parts,put em together(i am not an idiot,i know where goes where),its really simple man,you just gotta know where stuff goes and you're set,alotta fun too :)
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Unless you're unlucky and get one or more defective pieces of hardware. With the machine I built for myself (I've built, re-built and dismantled many computers for others and they have all gone fine) I had 3 components that were defective. Trouble shooting the workstation was a nightmare because my other machine had nackered on me thus leaving me with no second machine to test hardware within. It's all about luck as well as knowledge :).
 
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