Current Events > Are any of those pc building sites worth anything?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Or is it still better to build yourself?

Like a $99 build fee to save the hassle sounds preferable to me than doing it myself and having to spend hour(s) figuring out if it works or not <_<

Newegg's ABS line is the least bad for prebuilt, if you can find a configuration that's any good. Any others are going to be trash, as proven by reputable tech YouTubers

Picking parts and building yourself is still the best way to go.

MarthGoomba posted...

Newegg's ABS line is the least bad for prebuilt, if you can find a configuration that's any good. Any others are going to be trash, as proven by reputable tech YouTubers

Picking parts and building yourself is still the best way to go.

I was more asking about the sites where you pick parts and they build it for you.

I mean, I know it is technically a pre-built but whatever

It's really not all that complicated to build a PC. The manuals for the motherboard and case will tell you where everything needs to go.

At the very least I find PC building sites useful because they generally don't let you build a PC with parts that won't work together. So I'll use one of those sites to build a PC where I know all the parts are compatible and then I'll buy the parts individually. Save me the trouble of accidentally buying a motherboard that's for an earlier generation of chip or something like that.

Personally I love building my own pc.
If you don't like it, or think you'll not do it right, I'd say getting someone else to do it is a good move

If you don't want to build it yourself I'd shop around at various places that offer the service.

Price check the part costs

BuildRedux is one of the few I'm aware of and they claim to supply the parts without a markup on price and only a $75 build fee

Cyberpowerpc usually has decent deals on customized prebuilts