Are these deals/comps worth it?

[frogger237]

So today I got an email from NVIDIA about a free upgrade to a GeForce GTX 950‏ if you configure your rig with the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and so I went to a couple of the sites in the email to look at their deals and was wondering if any of the prebuilts are any good and worth it.

Like 6 months ago I asked on here for a comp for my brother and you guys built one but due to him working tons of overtime and stuff he never purchased the parts so I figured if any of these are good/worth it he might actually get one as it looks like the deal ends pretty fast and he wont have to put it together. His price is around 1k-1.5k or so. Thanks guys.



http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/landingp...A/GTX950Promo/
http://www.cybertronpc.com/950upgrad...HAKs1v3NsQXBXg
http://www.ibuypower.com/Site/NVIDIA...HAKs1v3NsQXBXg

[Sonatine185]

So today I got an email from NVIDIA about a free upgrade to a GeForce GTX 950‏ if you configure your rig with the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and so I went to a couple of the sites in the email to look at their deals and was wondering if any of the prebuilts are any good and worth it.

Like 6 months ago I asked on here for a comp for my brother and you guys built one but due to him working tons of overtime and stuff he never purchased the parts so I figured if any of these are good/worth it he might actually get one as it looks like the deal ends pretty fast and he wont have to put it together. His price is around 1k-1.5k or so. Thanks guys.



http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/landingp...A/GTX950Promo/
http://www.cybertronpc.com/950upgrad...HAKs1v3NsQXBXg
http://www.ibuypower.com/Site/NVIDIA...HAKs1v3NsQXBXg

Eh, I'm thinking for that price a prebuilt should have at least a gtx 960. Of course its prebuilt, so you're paying a couple hundred premium. I've seen some prebuilts at the upper range of your budget with gtx 970s. Parts to not go cheap on are the gpu and cpu which are the biggest factors of performance.

I hear cyberpower and ibuypower are the cheapest for prebuilts but also heard their quality control, testing, and customer service are non existent. I'd rather go for digital storm or origin, but they are even more expensive haha. Of course building one is the best bang for the buck and it's what I do.

[Warrax]

Not worth it no, prebuilds mostly have OEM parts, are generally cheaply made and aren't well balanced in terms of performance. Some of the prebuilds do have known brand pieces but do still have oem parts like SSD/HDD, RAM, GPU, etc.

[frogger237]

ok ty guys ill tell him not to get one then.

[kaamila]

Cyberpower PCs arent bad if you change out their no-name brands for major companies. They like to skimp on power supply, ram and hard-drive/ssd brands. So if you change those out for a major brand(EVGA/Corsair/Western Digital/Samsung etc.) then it'll be good. I made mine on cyberpower, checked the exact pricing for everything that was in it and everything I changed, and the pricing difference was an extra 20 bucks getting it pre-built which wasn't bad at all. Plus it came with a bunch of free stuff so the extra 20 bucks was worth it for me. But that was on black friday so there probably wont be another deal like that.

UPDATE: I made this clicking on 1 of the pre-built comps that was listed:

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1HHUE4

I changed the power supply to EVGA, hard drive to Western Digital, added a Sandisk SSD, and changed the video card to a AMD Radeon 390X 8GB. with a discount code the total comes to $1,234 I think. Comes with mousepad/headset/keyboard/mouse and acouple games. I'm sure you can go cheaper by finding another pre-built and changing things around. I would suggest going to www.pcpartpicker.com and checking the prices of each part and seeing if it's worth it as well as newegg/amazon to check how good each part is. I would change anything below 4-4 1/2 stars/eggs.

But what the other posters said are also true. The customer service and quality control arent great and you gotta hope the comp doesnt get thrown around when shipping to you. When I got mine I inspected all the parts to make sure anything didn't get knocked out of place and I updated all the drivers. When they build it they put it in the drivers that come with the disc, which are almost always old. My experience was good but it could be a toss up if you wanna go that route or not.

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http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1HHUE4

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This thing got r9 390X with reference cooler - will be hot as hell, loud as hell and could throttle. So it's horrible deal