Are the horror stories of iBuyPower just a meme?
Curious bump
>>51618982
Why the hell would you give them your money in the first place? Building a computer IS NOT HARD.
>>51619034
I believe that, but there are significant Cyber Monday deals and was just curious in general
>>51618982
They use the cheapest possible motherboard, PSU, and RAM. Their customer support is horrendous.
>>51618982
The biggest meme about ibuypower is that they give retarded twitch streamers PCs for free to shill for them.
>>51619118
I refuse to go to their website, but I very much doubt even at a significant discount they are going to be costwise a good value.
>>51619192
So as an example this plus all the free knickknacks at Ibuypower comes to $883. The company's horror stories aside do you /g/ents think this is a reasonable deal:
Case 1 x Raidmax Horus Gaming Case - Black
1 x iBUYPOWER RGB Smart Lighting (Software Controlled LED Lighting Kit)
Processor 1 x AMD FX-4300 CPU (4x 3.80GHz/4MB L2 Cache) Upgrade to FX-6300
Processor Cooling
1 x Asetek 510LC Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] - Free Upgrade to Corsair Hydro Series H55 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler
Memory 1 x 8 GB [4 GB x2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module [AMD] - Corsair or Major Brand **Free Upgrade to 16GB DDR3-1866 ADATA XPG**
Video Card 1 x AMD Radeon R9 380 - 4GB - Single Card
Motherboard 1 x ASUS M5A97 R2.0 -- AMD 970 w/ 2x PCIe x16, 2x USB 3.0, 6x USB 2.0
Power Supply 1 x 400 Watt - Standard 80 PLUS Bronze - *Free Upgrade to 800W Standard 80 PLUS Bronze
Primary Hard Drive 1 x 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32MB Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive *Free Upgrade to 2TB Hard Drive*
Optical Drive 1 x 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW - Black -- Free Upgrade to 14X LG Blu-ray Re-writer
Sound Card 1 x 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Network Card 1 x Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
Operating System 1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-bit
Speaker System 1 x Logitech S120 2.0 Speaker System
>>51619257
>>51619257
A 4790k, ram and mobo would be $400. A 390/970 for $300 more. You get a $30 psu, a $40 1tb hard drive, a $50 case, a $30 cpu cooler. Totals out to $800 for a machine that's far better.
>>51619474
My bad $900.
>>51619257
>>51619257
$70 CPU
$80 board
$60 RAM
$170 GPU
$60 HDD
$50 cooler
$70 PSU
$15 drive
$10 speakers
$30 case
Given rough estimates on shipping and taxing, I'd put it at $680 roughly.
That's a nice $200 prebuilt tax, or about 30%
>>51619493
I was considering getting the parts and putting it together as a project seeing as I've never done it before. I just need all the external hardware as well (mouse, keyboard and speakers) because I'm going from the laptop I've had through college to something more significant.
>>51619474
>>51619474
>30 PSU
>70 main board; and overclocking
The hell are you smoking
At that range he's better off with a $230 E3-1231; can't OC so you can get a cheap board and drop the cooler. Pick a better PSU and an SSD and you're golden.
I got a pooter off them 6 years ago, still runs perfectly, just threw a 290 in it.
>>51619667
None of that is expensive. Just grab it off Amazon.
>>51619667
Honestly this is a terrible time to buy as generational cycles go. AMD and Nvidia both will have complete GPU line overhauls in 8~ months. AMD also has a new uArch due in 10 months.
>>51619697
You should probably get a new PSU soon. 6 years is pretty much a good ones average life
>>51619688
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y9VyYJ
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have a problem with this.
>>51619900
>3.5gb
>EVGA PSU
>Asrock mainboard
>Seagate
>2400mhz RAM
>"cryorig"
>muh i7 overclocking
The only alright thing is the case
>>51619996
whatever kid.
>>51619996
>EVGA PSUs
>Bad
what
