i always kinda took it as a truism that building your own pc is cheaper than buying a new prebuilt, but i decided to look at prebuilts just for fun and uhhh holy shit???
the cpu and gpu alone are like a $550 value, getting the rest of the build for $150 is pretty damn good
are prebuilts getting more price efficient, or has it always been this way and i just didn't realize
I always kinda took it as a truism that building your own pc is cheaper than buying a new prebuilt...
Elijah Martin
Christian Young
Is that Walmart? Half the shit is their own brand
8GB ram is enough to run notepad and mspaint at the same time
David King
OEMs don't have to deal with scalpers
The rrp on a 3060 is like 300 bucks
Nicholas Diaz
>expensive computer with shit specs
Is that an old listing? I got double the RAM on an 1165 i7 for less than that.
Kevin Cruz
DIY hasn't been cheaper for years. Prebuilts get OEM pricing plus volume discounts. Building your own is still better for other reasons but price isn't one.
Eli Taylor
>8GB RAM
>256GB SSD
Lol, lmao even
Lucas Kelly
Currently, prebuilts are often cheaper because OEMs get GPUs directly from manufacturers without scalpers.
But the trade-off is shitty cases, shitty cooling and shitty proprietary motherboards and PSUs that you cannot replace or reuse.
Carter Thompson
there's an empty socket in there, 35 bucks more and you got 16
Logan Adams
like i said in the OP, an equivalent cpu + a 3060 is like $550 on its own. a complete build for $150 more is damn good
Nathan Collins
buy prebuild and use the cpu and gpu and hard drive to build own