Thread: Building your own gaming machine?

Prebuilt gaming pc's from well-known brands such as DELL's XPS line or Alienware are in my opinion way overpriced.

I like building my own system since I get to choose from a wider variaty of hardware than most online pc configurators, it's also very satisfying to find the lowest price by doing some research and eventually come up with a system which costs less but equals or even surpasses the performance of a prebuilt gaming pc.

DELL's XPS by the way series have always boasted impressive specs too, but due to using their own brand of motherboards and other parts DELL thought they could save costs on didn't deliver the expected performance they should have. In onther words, a pair of 8800GTX in SLi in a XPS machine didn't perform as well as a pair of 8800GTX sli with a quality brand motherboard.
Hope this helps,

Greetings,

Marcus

ooof yea definitely, if you want to build a GAMING PC, build it yourself, I agree with the above, however, if you were wanting a basic PC, it can sometimes be cheaper to buy pre-built, with XPS dell's and alienware, you are paying for the name, not the quality of the goods (despite them being pretty top of the range)

if you build it yourself, you can save upto 700 bucks even 1k. Anyway you've still got the warranty so you can return it if you're not happy with it. Also you can pay your local computer shop to build it for you if you're not confident for a small fee.