Board 8 > Best PC Brands?

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Thinking of finally buying a good gaming/streaming quality PC but really not sure where to start. I get comparing various specs well enough but I have no idea which manufacturers are considered good. I'm also not opposed to either pre-built or building my own but I have no idea where to get started on the latter.

Figured I'd ask you guys on this one. Any help is much appreciated!

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You're more than capable of building your own, I'd highly recommend it for price and pride, purposes.

Decide how much you want to spend, how BIG you want it to be, and where you want to be, power-wise, then head to PCPartpicker.com and start experimenting with a build.

Edit: As for your title's question of best brands, using PCPartPicker is nice because you can see ratings and specs in a really easy to read way, so the best "brand" is less relevant because you'll gravitate towards where you wanna be.

Hey, that looks like an actually good site, thanks!

I was very disappointed in NewEgg's PC builder being a "pick a bunch of games you want to be able to play".

A lot of prebuilders do that.

I never thought of myself as a very technical kind of person and was able to put my own together without too much difficulty. It took a while and lots of YouTube video pauses, but i love what i ended up with.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

You're more than capable of building your own, I'd highly recommend it for price and pride, purposes.

Decide how much you want to spend, how BIG you want it to be, and where you want to be, power-wise, then head to PCPartpicker.com and start experimenting with a build.

Edit: As for your title's question of best brands, using PCPartPicker is nice because you can see ratings and specs in a really easy to read way, so the best "brand" is less relevant because you'll gravitate towards where you wanna be.

Be aware that this doesn't currently take into account features like newegg combo savings. So prices can be better than shown and some items may be cheaper than they appear.

It used to but I couldn't find the feature this year.

kevwaffles posted...

Hey, that looks like an actually good site, thanks!

I was very disappointed in NewEgg's PC builder being a "pick a bunch of games you want to be able to play".

Use neweggs build a combo thing right now, imo.

They had the best prices of all the big sites for the most part this year.

Just make sure you research because while they were the best price for most things, that is not true across the board.

https://www.newegg.com/tools/combo-builder/6675?cm_sp=dynamic-combo_combo-builder

I used that in combination with pcpartpicker and a quick Google for reference to get the best price on my build this year.

Leafeon13N posted...

Use neweggs build a combo thing right now, imo.

They had the best prices of all the big sites for the most part this year.

Just make sure you research because while they were the best price for most things, that is not true across the board.

I think I must have not seen it a granular enough level. It looked like it was just giving a pre-built when I used it.

Leafeon13N posted...

https://www.newegg.com/tools/combo-builder/6675?cm_sp=dynamic-combo_combo-builder

I used that in combination with pcpartpicker and a quick Google for reference to get the best price on my build this year.

Oh yeah that's way different than what I stumbled on

So I'm not sure if they suddenly got better but AVOID INTEL for CPUs. There's a lot of problems involving their newer models.

I've noticed that a few of the AMD CPUs come with RAM from the Newegg listing, which may be something to consider.

These were the two that I saw:

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-5600gt-ryzen-5-5000-series-cezanne-zen-3-socket-am4/p/N82E16819113816
https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-5700x3d-ryzen-7-5000-series-vermeer-zen-3-socket-am4/p/N82E16819113812

Yeah, definitely avoid the last couple years of Intel chips. For gaming, you'll want one of AMD's X3D chips - they're way better than anything else out there (IE, a 7800X3D will be vastly superior to a 7950X for gaming, despite the latter being more expensive).

The only thing about the x3d chips right now is that high demand has kind of prevented them from seeing discounts. The 7800x3d and 9800x3d are selling at relatively high prices.

WhiteLens posted...

So I'm not sure if they suddenly got better but AVOID INTEL for CPUs. There's a lot of problems involving their newer models.

It looks like the ultra series isn't being hit with the literal melting problem of the 13/14 series.

But the performance is a mild downgrade in exchange for not melting and driving your electricity bill up a wall.

Imo after price for performance the most important thing is the manufacturer RMA policy (and rep) and the vendors return policy. Recent reputation is important as some brands have become better over time.

For the record ended up going with an Ultra 7 265k for myself.

In part cause I was curious and in part because the more recent AMD X3D chips were either unavailable or very pricey. And while there were other comparable options in my price range(Around $350, paid $330) they had power draw numbers that were likely going to cost me more in the year.

If I was planning to run in 4k or something I'd probably hold out but I really just needed something fast to stop bottlenecking my 3070ti and wanted to move to a 1440p monitor(Moved up from an i7 7700k).

Fast and stable so far. I also maybe went a little crazy with my fan setup but its running real cool with just an air setup(Idle 28C, load maxes out about 58C).