Seems like its from Ibuypower.com, so prob paid about 1600-2k perhapes.
Specced out, its only 1150 before shipping. So not that bad actually.
All in, while they could have saved some on the prebuilt price, it wouldnt have been much, on the PREBUILT price.
If they built it themselfs though, WOO could have saved a large amount.
Seems they bought a keyboard and "gaming" mouse, but got a free keyboard to boot.
Overall, its an okay midrange build, but certainly could have been improved for the price paid.
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The sound card is onboard, that was standard. Yes, we rip through keyboards, so 3 bucks for a second keyboard is a good deal ;P And we BREAK things, not build them. We have no comp building skill in the house, unless breaking them counts as "skill".
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1300 actually. the cost was base 1140ish, then shipping and tax. Final cost was 1300.61 .
edit: gf's son has bought from iBuypower before and had good things to say for the most part. Price comparison on CyberPowerPC showed their costs were about 50-100 more for basically the same exact rig. The gfx card was about as much as we could get, but since it runs everything out now on ultra with little issues (for the most part) it looks like it will last a good few years minimum, so it was worth it. The 2tb hd was a free upgrade from a 1tb, so there was that as well. All in all, pretty damn happy. Just won't be here until mid-late next month.
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If we were comfortable doing so, we would have. But unfortunately we aren't. I'm not too upset about it, pretty pleased this will be good comp for a good few years to come, and will run anything I want to throw at it easily.
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And had a bunch of pc parts on the floor wondering how to put it together without screwing something up. I'm as technologically dumb as you can get, and don't know how to build things.
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Building a PC is super easy, pretty much no knowledge is required, I did it myself when I was 13. Only mistake I have ever heard of people making was not putting any thermal paste on the CPU. Also with the internet you can get step by step videos which makes it as easy as making a cake with a video showing you how to make the cake...except this cake cant burn O_O.
Honestly all I have heard from iBuypower is horror stories, I wish you luck though.
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Hillary, you are a multi-talented woman. I'm strangely attracted to you.
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Odd, I'm on an old iBuypower that required little more then reconnecting a loose cable on receipt. It doesn't work spectacularly, but it's also 5+ years old, and it's still chugging. The other iBuypower is currently in use by gf's son, he's playing WoW, and other then an odd SSD ghosting issue he had ONLY with TOR and WoW, it's worked perfectly since he got it last year.
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I had a friend that got one and the PSU blew out a month later, they gave him a headache and a half on the phone before doing anything to fix it. I am sure some people have good luck though, make sure everything is good when you get it, not much you can do to check for a bad psu from what I remember but run some stuff just to be sure about everything else.
Hopefully you have no issues and get much enjoyment from it though :-)!
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Here's to hoping, this will be such a dramatic upgrade over what I am currently using it's not even funny.
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Yeah make sure to get some graphical heavy games to test it out, thats always fun.
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Yep, I have a decent selection of games, but this comp has run most of them fine. Just not at high levels. Seeing the nutty physx in BL2 will be nice. And Dishonored and Far Cry 3 are on my "hope I can get for xmas" list. Having said that, the comp might BE my xmas ;P And all holidays for a year ;P
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Dishonored isn't that intense from what I see, though with luck there will be a discount on the winter steam sales. Still a nice look gaming for sure, art wise especially.
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Not everyone is tech savvy enough to build his or her own computer. That's how service businesses exist. They allow RichterLocke to focus his attention on being an expert in another field. It's like taxes. Some people would prefer to have someone do their taxes for them so they don't screw it up.
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Micro Center I know for a fact does this..or at least the one near my house does.
Best Buy should due to Geek Squads and their in-store hardware installation services.
Oh, I forgot someone told me that Micro Center closed their California store.
Fry's Electronic is a nice alternative and maybe their computer building services can be the "PC Repair: Pick up, fix, deliver, and set up of PC " option or the "Optimize, Upgrade, & Deliver of New PC" one.
Although as suggested you can learn on how to build one online. Newegg as a series of videos for that.
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My friends, among other nicknames, have given me the nickname "Godzilla", as I break things people thought were unbreakable. If my gf or her son was willing to learn how to do it cool. Me? Fuck no, something else to get blamed for.
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We really couldn't afford this. SSD was not an option.
edit: this was more then gf wanted to pay, but the household comp issues got to be bad enough that since we got a decent price, she pulled the trigger. Not the best financial time for us or anything, but we badly needed a new comp.
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yeah, I know. I wasn't thrilled with only getting 1 optical drive or going specifically with onboard sound either, but had to make some sacrifices on it to get it the green light to order.
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I have an actual gf, but thanks for the dumb comment ;P
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Thank you Cel ^^ won't be here till approximately December 20th, but cannot WAIT!
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Why the 3570?
If you got a z series board either get a cheaper i5 or the k series 3570.
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the 3570k was an extra 40 bucks. The plan was originally to get that, but I had to downgrade in several areas to get the go ahead for the comp to be ordered as it was.
edit: also adding, the onboard graphics didn't matter to us, the 2500 vs 4000. And we have no intention on overclocking. So the 40 dollar difference wasn't justifiable for us.
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Thats a decent build for a decent price but why cpu cooling when your cpu is locked so you cant overclock it
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SoCal. House gets to be 100+ degrees during the summer with little airflow. Good cooling was absolutely essential. Plus, liquid cooling is standard, we only threw in another 19 bucks for the push/pull airflow fans.
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how old is your pc, mine is 4 years but im going to buy the next gen consoles xbox ps4 instead of a new PC
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Yeah, I'm happy. Lots of free black friday upgrades. iBuypower.com had some decent free upgrades, so here's the "order page" info.
Black Paladin E X 1
Case(NZXT Source 210 Gaming Case - Blue)
Processor(Intel® Core™ i5-3570 Processor (4x 3.40GHz/6MB L3 Cache))
Processor Cooling(Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1155] - ARC Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow))
Memory(4 GB [2 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Special System Only Free Upgrade to 8GB [4GBx2] DDR3-1866 G.SKILL RipjawsX)
Video Card(NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti - 2GB - FREE Upgrade to 660Ti 2GB EVGA Superclocked - Single Card)
Video Card Brand(Major Brand Powered by AMD or NVIDIA)
Motherboard(Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H -- 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0)
Power Supply(650 Watt - Corsair CMPSU-650TXV2 - Free Upgrade to 750 Watt Corsair CMPSU-750TXV2 ($20 Savings))
Primary Hard Drive(2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive)
Optical Drive(24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Thanksgiving Weekend Specials FREE Upgrade to LG BLU-RAY Reader Combo Drive Black)
Sound Card(3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard)
Network Card(Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100))
Operating System(Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit)
Keyboard(iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Keyboard)
Mouse(iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Mouse - Blood Red)
Warranty(3 Year Standard Warranty Service)
Rush Service(Rush Service Fee (not shipping fee) - No Rush Service, Estimate Ship date by 12-10-2012)
Free Stuff(*[FREE] - Gigabyte GC-WB300D Bluetooth 4.0 / Dual Band WiFi Expansion Card - Free with purchase of ALL Desktop)
Free Stuff([FREE] Creative Labs Fatal1ty Gaming Headset)
Free Stuff([FREE] - Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard - Free with purchase of any desktop)
Advanced Build Options(Tuniq TX-2 High Performance Thermal Compound - The best interface between your CPU and the heatsinks)
Pretty stoked, we needed this badly, it will be nice to have a computer that doesn't crash all the time, as well as have more then 15 gigs of HD space to juggle game installations with.
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