Having second thoughts about building my own system.

[Chickat]

I was planning on ordering the parts on the 9th of August, but they would be from half a dozen different places, and im afraid something or god forbid more then one thing comes broken. Also what if i break something trying to build it, and im also worried about warranty's if stuff that all comes from different places. Would i be better off just buying from a system builder site?

[moremana]

Or, you can just buy it all from one place.
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I buy all mine from Amazon or New Egg, You really dont save alot of money buying from 5 or 6 different people. Amazon usually saves me money and shipping is very inexpensive.

[Chickat]

What place has the best return policies and or customer service?

[Toffie]

Newegg If you're from the US.

[Chickat]

So from 1150-1250. 100 more dollars to get everything at newegg only instead. I suppose im still getting a better deal then i would if i went with a prebuilt.

[vesseblah]

I suppose im still getting a better deal then i would if i went with a prebuilt.

With DIY you always know exactly what you paid for, and don't need to roll a dice with "major brand this" or "generic" that parts you get from well known system builder sites. There's very little money to be gained anymore with DIY (usually around 10%), but whole lot of options you wouldn't have otherwise.


Just pick one or two stores to get all parts from instead of 6 unless some of those 6 are within walking distance. And keep all receipts and boxes intact for at least first half year if you need to RMA anything.

[Toffie]

Yes you are.
Just make sure you read the build guides proberly and you wont have any issues.

Things to make sure of though:


- When applying thermal paste to the CPU socket, you apply a small pea sized paste in the middle of the CPU.
- Standoffs need to be placed in the case before applying the motherboard.
- When placing the CPU, DO NOT USE ANY FORCE; just place it above the pins and drop it very lightly.
- Be very careful of scratching the motherboard while working on it with the CPU cooler, do not let things drop on it.
- Don't do your building standing on a carpet, you will attract static electricity which may burn your components. Touch a radiator with bear metal to ground yourself.

Just watch this guide carefully : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Js2...1D9BF9F40D0E5E

[yurano]

What place has the best return policies and or customer service?

Physical stores like Best Buy and Frys = Amazon > Newegg > everything else

The only online retailers I would buy from are Amazon, NCIX US, and Newegg.

Newegg tends to be the cheapest due to their rotating sales.

For my first build, I went 40% Amazon, 30% Newegg, 30% Microcenter CPU deal because I purchased everything at once.

For my second build, I went 95% Newegg and 5% Frys because I snatched up deals one at a time over the course of 1-2 months.