What's wrong with buying a pre-built PC?

What's wrong with buying a pre-built PC?

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more expensive and they usually cheap out on something important like the PSU

dogshit sku for retards

You're paying more for lower quality parts. Prebuilt only sort of makes sense if you're buying something exclusively to use the internet and read your e-mails.

Laziness, unwillingness to learn and acceptance of being ripped off

You get less performance for your money.
Sometimes significantly less.

There is nothing "wrong" with it, it's your money and you can do whatever you want.

But building a PC is not even hard, back in 2008 probably you would get some problems but by today's standards, its pretty easy and there are a lot of information to avoid bottle neck issues.

Nothing. The value isn't as good, but if it suits you needs and is more convenient, go right ahead. Building a PC is a useful skill, but I have no idea why people on the internet unleash an avalanche of sperg when you talk about not building a PC.

The issue is that the quality of prebuilts is highly fluctuating. If you're in Germany, you can buy from Dubaro, change the parts and still get decent everything at a very competitive price.
Here in France, you can buy from Megaport, get a terrible mATX board with cardboard VRMs, a PSU that's a literal bomb, single channel ram, a small single fan gpu, the cheapest peripherals known to man, all that for several more hundred eurodollars than it's worth. Prebuilts can be very good, but a ton of them aren't.

The so call "less" performance is a fucking meme, if you play a poorly optimized game, it doesn't matter how good your PC is, you wont be able to play it.

And the other way around, if the game is outstandingly optimized, if if your pc is above average, itll run smooth as butter.

In olden times it was because, dollar for performance, they were overpriced. In more recent years with companies that effectively make their own custom PCs there's not as much of a distinction; sometimes it can be a better deal or on par with what you could do yourself with the same budget.

The biggest benefit of a custom build is knowing exactly what's in it and exactly how every cable is managed so you don't have to dig around like a surgeon just to plug in a new hard drive or something. And, obviously, you can tailor the machine exactly how you want at that moment instead of being limited to what's on the market. Want to cheap out on a GPU for awhile and spring for an upgrade later? You can. Or maybe you don't even care about the last 10 years of games and just want to put together something for competent emulation, which you could scramble together out of secondhand parts for cheap. There are a number of reasons.

>performance doesn't matter because edge cases exist

Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Then again, only a brainlet would defend pre-builts.

At the moment there is not much wrong with buying a prebuilt. Because hardware parts are still in a shortage while prebuilts are still filling up the storage units.
Building your own PC was the better solution most of the time since you got better compenents and paid less.
Now if you get a really good offer it can be valid to buy a cheap prebuilt one and change some parts if the hardware prices drop later on, since prebuilts are notorious to put in some cheap shit to make bigger profits.

You made it sound stupid, mate. What i said is it depends what games are you or OP are trying to play, having the "best" pc possible is a fucking meme.

And if you really play on PC, you should already know that there are A LOT of shitty optimized games.

I.E.D. PSU

I boiled it down to reveal the stupidity behind your statement.
Frames matter, regardless of game optimization.

Depends on the prebuilt. Some of them are literally built wrong because they're slapped together by wage slaves.

>Be (you)
>Trying to get 120fps on a fps locked game
>the game crashes due shitty engine optimization

Also, i didn't say FPS didn't matter. Once again, you are making it sound stupid.

>Some of them are literally built wrong

This is an actual danger with "cheap" pre-built PCs.
I am lazy but I'd still rather put in the time and effort to build my own rig than hope the guy building my PC wasn't a monkey.

building a PC by yourself is extremely enjoyable if you're into tech stuff, if you're a normie who's too lazy to diy then just buy it prebuilt

>he doesn't appreciate frame time consistency

Even a frame locked game can benefit from better hardware.
Most games aren't frame locked either way.

Yeah, the quality from brand to brand can be questionable.

Prebuilt gaming laptop > prebuilt PC

Building a PC yourself is easier than driving to the grocery store.

But if you are going to buy a prebuilt, Cyberpower has a pretty decent performance/quality to cost ratio. Or you can go for a rig custom built by someone else for a larger fee. Pic related
Then again, you don't have much choice in the components rebuilds/custom builds use. For example, did I really need that 200$ RAM module? Did I really need a 150$ case? But you couldn't swap those parts out because you didn't choose them.

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there are reputable prebuilt PC vendors that will actually list like, exactly what model cooler youre getting, PSU youre getting, etc which is where most will screw you
the biggest reason to build your own is that its a lot of fun

No, get it during a sale and you'll come out ahead financially, have a no-bullshit warranty and save time.

This. People assume prebuilt means a team with decades of experience is carefully putting your shit together. The truth is that it's some random kid trying to quickly slap everything together in under an hour because he's got a quota to meet.

In my last prebuilt the PCI case covers weren't properly fastened and were loose in the case. Thankfully they didn't break anything bouncing around in the case. But then a few years later my CPU died, and when I removed the heatsink I learned they didn't put fucking thermal paste on the damn thing.

Thanks to rona, nothing. You now save money buying prebuilts because the PC part market is so fucked

Only Redditors and very low IQ people buy prebuilt

>the game crashes due shitty engine optimization
And how does a prebuilt compensate that?

They come with custom bios firmware which tends to mean trying to upgrade it resulting in bricking the bios. Some boards need the updates to support newer hardware. People buying a prebuilt probably wont have a CH 314 on hand or know how to use it. Overclocking on the boards they use is also usually a bad idea because they use bad power phases and cheap out on everything. You can save a lot of money doing it yourself but that would require actually spending 15 minutes reading a manual and finding supported components.

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