Best PC-Building Company

Please don't give me the preachings about building my own pc. I just want something to come in the mail and for it to last me quite a while. thanks guys!Insanitymanitee

Go onto one of those sites and customize your system.

Look up the parts on newegg or something similar

Recieve your parts in the mail and take them to either Best Buy(Geek squad) or a local computer shop to have them assembled

Boom you just saved yourself thousands of dollars and you are recieving the same level of performance.

[QUOTE="Insanitymanitee"] Please don't give me the preachings about building my own pc. I just want something to come in the mail and for it to last me quite a while. thanks guys!bignice12

Go onto one of those sites and customize your system.

Look up the parts on newegg or something similar

Recieve your parts in the mail and take them to either Best Buy(Geek squad) or a local computer shop to have them assembled

Boom you just saved yourself thousands of dollars and you are recieving the same level of performance.

Yeah, but often those companies won't list every slight detail and I know that there are a lot of things on a pc that gotta match or they won't work with each other, so there's no way to find out say...which mother board I should get. Plus what about this water-cooling idea? I don't really want some high school goons (Geek Squad)soddering something like that into my pc. and what about the shells? Are they all the same???!?!?!

This is the best from Dell:

PROCESSORIntel® CoreTM2 Extreme QX6850 (8MB,3.67GHz Factory overclocked)editOPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® UltimateeditMEMORY4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMseditHARD DRIVE320GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 160GB WD Raptor SATA 1.5Gb/s 10,000 RPM HDDs)editOPTICAL DRIVESingle Drive: Blu-ray Disc Drive (BD/DVD/CD burner w/double layer BD writeeditMONITORNo MonitoreditVIDEO CARDDual 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 UltraeditPHYSICS ACCELERATORAGEIA® PhysX® physics acceleratoreditSOUND CARDSound Blaster® X-FiTM XtremeGamer (D) Sound CardeditKEYBOARDNo KeyboardeditMOUSENo MouseeditFLOPPY & MEDIA READERNo Floppy Drive or Media Reader IncludededitMODEMNo Modem Requested

Also, is the Intel Core 2 the same thing as quad-core? Aaaaah please don't get irritated, I don't know jack about these things and am just getting into it.

Alienware has:

Alienware® ALX High-Performance Liquid Cooling, Alienware® Acoustic Dampening, Dual 1GB ATI® RadeonTM HD 2900 XT - CrossFire Enabled, Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme QX9650 3.0GHz 12MB Cache 1333MHz FSB - Over-clocked to 4.0 GHz!, Alienware® Approved X38 Motherboard Includes onboard Wireless-N, PCI-Express 2.0, and DDR3 memory.

Alienware is kinda light on giving you descriptions about what you're buying.

Its disgusting how they overprice their computers, WMDpc.com has computers built on margin with newegg hardware prices, and free shipping

dell will overprice your **** like madmen, as well as alienware and voodoo, its like buying a mac except for pc and just as ****ty

cyperpowerpc.comshakmaster13

AVADirect,though this is coming from a Dell user :o :P

I checked out wmdpcs.com (not wmdpc.com!) and whoa!

THEIR PRICES ARE LOW, and they offer the same stuff as any of the overpricing ******bags out there!

The question is, are they reliable? I have never heard of them before...

Also, is the Intel Core 2 the same thing as quad-core? Aaaaah please don't get irritated, I don't know jack about these things and am just getting into it.

Insanitymanitee

Core 2 is for architecture it has a "2" because its a revision of the original core architecture. And Duo is for dual cores, Quad for quad cores.

Falcon Northwest will always be on top of my list if I ever go thenon-building-myself path.GamingMonkeyPC

dell and alienware are the same company so you're basically gonna get the same thing in a different looking case

didn't like how there was no 'none of the above' option in your poll so i didn't vote

Go with AVA Direct. You can customize every part of the pc and they have ahuge selection in parts. They also have great customer service. I just built one from them and it came out to a great price. I actually looked at what it would cost me to order all the parts seperately from a place like NewEgg and build it myself and the price actually came out to about the same.

I did a ton of research of different companies who let you build your own computer and they were the best choice that I found.

Go with AVA Direct. You can customize every part of the pc and they have ahuge selection in parts. They also have great customer service. I just built one from them and it came out to a great price. I actually looked at what it would cost me to order all the parts seperately from a place like NewEgg and build it myself and the price actually came out to about the same.

I did a ton of research of different companies who let you build your own computer and they were the best choice that I found.

mex12

I will take you on your word that they are good service... but their prices are a bit higher than doing it yourself. I built my computer on there for fun (as close as I could) and it gave me an estimate that was.. well, enough more $$ that I felt happy that I did it all myself.

I would love to build a computer myself, as it's pretty obvious what the price difference between a prebuilt and DIY computer is.

However, at the same time, I would be pretty anxious building my computer, as I'd be scared of screwing up anything, and in the process, ruining expensive parts. Things like overclocking, etc. etc. require technical expertise I don't have, and that would require a time investment for me to learn how to do.

Time = money

Unless I'm overshooting reality, and the in reality building a computer is not that hard...

How long did it take you to build your computer?

few days looking for the right parts, 15 minutes to place the order, 3 anxious days of waiting for them to arrive, an hour and a half to put it together, a long night of re-installing programs and games

but it was all worth it