This almost makes it not worth building your own

Blower fan cards are awful.

Cooling for both the card and cpu looks minimal as well.

Ram is slow...

do I have to continue?
 
I'd build my own in just about any use case, the vast majority of prebuilts use cheaper components around the system such as low grade PSU, slow/cheap RAM, low quality MBs, suboptimal cooling, inexpensive SSDs, etc.
 
The warranty on a pre built alone should be enough to dissuade anyone from going that route.

Purchasing parts individually, even if you were to go with low end hardware from reputable brands, you're looking at a 3-year warranty for most of the components. Obviously besides the case and hard disk, everything in my build has at least a 3-year warranty. Some components are 5-year or lifetime. The build you recently assembled should be similar.

OEMs like Dell and HP, on the whole, have shot themselves in the foot. I still see pre built desktops without SSDs at retailers and all over the interweb; it's absurd. And Dells "business" line of desktops is the same. They even include M.2 support on the motherboard and then ship the computer with a 1TB Seagate hard disk. It really couldn't have hurt to put a 128GB SSD in there. Seriously ha. The experience of an SSD alone would have been enough for return business for years to come.
 
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