Good websites to buy a custom built computer?

[Tennis]

Anyone know of any good Canadian ones?

I know about Ibuypower.com but I wonder about taxes at the border.

[chazus]

Honestly, with shipping costs on a lot of sites, it may be worth while to go to Canada Computers. That's what I've done in the past. I (in the US) often bring stuff up north to avoid shipping and taxes but that's usually not an option for locals.

[Idrinkwhiterussians]

If I am not mistaken, NCIX will build a rig for you. Just another option from Canada.

[Tennis]

Honestly, with shipping costs on a lot of sites, it may be worth while to go to Canada Computers. That's what I've done in the past. I (in the US) often bring stuff up north to avoid shipping and taxes but that's usually not an option for locals.

Canada Computer has some convenient locations. Do they have custom built desktops? I just saw a few Acers and such.

[the game]

It would be more rewarding to buy the parts and assemble it yourself. It's really not hard to do.

[chazus]

Canada Computer has some convenient locations. Do they have custom built desktops? I just saw a few Acers and such.

They have prebuilts but you can also just buy all your parts there and build it (or have them do it)

[SLSAMG]

Save money and build it yourself - https://pcpartpicker.com/ (select your country on the top right)

There's plenty of videos online that guide you through the process. It's easy!

[Tennis]

It would be more rewarding to buy the parts and assemble it yourself. It's really not hard to do.

How much cheaper is it to do that though.

[Alcsaar]

How much cheaper is it to do that though.

In my experience, a considerable amount. Atleast a couple hundred dollars. I once compared an alienware desktop that MMO-Champ was doing a giveaway on to a custom built one with the same parts - it was nearly a $1000 difference.

How much you decide the convenience of a prebuilt is worth is up to you. For me, it takes roughly 1.5-2 hours to put together my PC (I'm a bit meticulous). Of course you lose out on a full-build warranty building it yourself, but the parts are still under warranty.

[Tehterokkar]

How much cheaper is it to do that though.

Usually you get to choose proper quality components. Pre-builts are known to use cheapest possible options for things like PSU(which should be the highest quality in your build, because if it malfunctions, everything else dies). Along with things like them using non-K Intel CPUs in most case, which doesn't allow overclocking.

You can probably take like $200-300 off a PC's price if you build it yourself.

[Arbiter]

How much cheaper is it to do that though.

Depends on what you're comparing it to and what hardware you're buying. Typically can save hundreds easily by doing so. More if you compare to a company like Digital Storm. Difference also being is that you not only get a better balance of hardware based on your needs and budget, but also ensure that you get a better quality motherboard and power supply to reduce the risk of potential failure as prebuilt companies (especially the cheaper ones) will always try to cheap out in departments where specs aren't usually seen as a means to save costs. PSU being the most common.

Those hundreds could easily be put in your pocket or invested into better hardware for the machine. As someone mentioned though if you're really that against it then NCIX will assemble parts you choose for a small fee when buying the parts from them (though limiting yourself to solely their stock you don't end up getting the best prices and biggest selection. It really is better to just do it yourself though. Good learning experience and helps to know what you're dealing with so you could fix your own problems down the road.

but the parts are still under warranty.

Which is all you honestly need.Better in my opinion as you don't have to send in the whole rig if something were to fail by chance.

[the game]

How much cheaper is it to do that though.

So you would have to pay for the parts but you wouldn't have to pay for the labor to build it. Which I'm assuming is a couple of hundred dollars if you have it done by someone else.