Newegg PC Desktops.

[Soviet Heavy]

Yep, another of those threads. I've found a rather nice looking Desktop on Newegg, currently going for 799.99.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227383

This is one of their bundled Desktops, and it costs about as much as my 2009 laptop did. Would you say it's worth it, or would I be better off looking at their individual parts? I'm not much of a Computer builder, but I'd like to hear some opinions.

The 2GB GTX 560 is what drew me to it. Everything else seems up to snuff, but I'm not sure about the processor. How well does an FX-6100 compare to say an i5 or i7?

 

[Rastien]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

 

[Rastien]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

Gonna be honest not familar with AMD, but from a quick review i found on google it looks to be weaker than an i5 or i7, currently my rig is pretty much identicle to that with the exception of an i5 processor and i can run anything thus far on max settings skyrim being a good bench mark i guess.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

Gonna be honest not familar with AMD, but from a quick review i found on google it looks to be weaker than an i5 or i7, currently my rig is pretty much identicle to that with the exception of an i5 processor and i can run anything thus far on max settings skyrim being a good bench mark i guess.

Hmm. Do you know if Newegg builds computers if you order the parts? If they do, I might swap the processor out for an i5 or a phenom II, and maybe throw an SSD in as well. Can't be too much more can it? Another hundred or so?

 

[Rastien]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

Gonna be honest not familar with AMD, but from a quick review i found on google it looks to be weaker than an i5 or i7, currently my rig is pretty much identicle to that with the exception of an i5 processor and i can run anything thus far on max settings skyrim being a good bench mark i guess.

Hmm. Do you know if Newegg builds computers if you order the parts? If they do, I might swap the processor out for an i5 or a phenom II, and maybe throw an SSD in as well. Can't be too much more can it? Another hundred or so?

If your looking at that kind of money it might be worth approuching a local small (not part of a chain) computer shop. Ask them if you provide the parts would they be willing to build a machine for you for a set price.

Not sure about newegg, but to swap out the processor from AMD to Intel you need a different motherboard they use different sockets. Solid state harddrives are fun but damn expensive for what they are games really don't need them, with that said i havn't checked how much they are these days may have come down in price.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

Gonna be honest not familar with AMD, but from a quick review i found on google it looks to be weaker than an i5 or i7, currently my rig is pretty much identicle to that with the exception of an i5 processor and i can run anything thus far on max settings skyrim being a good bench mark i guess.

Hmm. Do you know if Newegg builds computers if you order the parts? If they do, I might swap the processor out for an i5 or a phenom II, and maybe throw an SSD in as well. Can't be too much more can it? Another hundred or so?

If your looking at that kind of money it might be worth approuching a local small (not part of a chain) computer shop. Ask them if you provide the parts would they be willing to build a machine for you for a set price.

Not sure about newegg, but to swap out the processor from AMD to Intel you need a different motherboard they use different sockets. Solid state harddrives are fun but damn expensive for what they are games really don't need them, with that said i have checked how much they are these days may have come down in price.

Hmm. Well, I'm going through Newegg's guides. Hopefully they can shine a light on this for me. Thanks for your help as well.

 

[Rastien]

Converted that to GBP and its £500 thats not to bad, if you have never built a system yourself and your not confident i would say that aint to bad

What i would say is if you cost the parts up yourself it will be cheaping hazzarding a guess i would say your still paying £50-£100 to pay for them to assemble it. Building a desktop can be pretty straight forward everything slots into its place only fiddly bit can be wiring up the faceplate.

It's a lower high range, upper mid range desktop from the looks of things, and considering that 900 bucks got me a top of the line laptop in 09, it seems like a good deal to me. What would you say about the processor?

Gonna be honest not familar with AMD, but from a quick review i found on google it looks to be weaker than an i5 or i7, currently my rig is pretty much identicle to that with the exception of an i5 processor and i can run anything thus far on max settings skyrim being a good bench mark i guess.

Hmm. Do you know if Newegg builds computers if you order the parts? If they do, I might swap the processor out for an i5 or a phenom II, and maybe throw an SSD in as well. Can't be too much more can it? Another hundred or so?

If your looking at that kind of money it might be worth approuching a local small (not part of a chain) computer shop. Ask them if you provide the parts would they be willing to build a machine for you for a set price.

Not sure about newegg, but to swap out the processor from AMD to Intel you need a different motherboard they use different sockets. Solid state harddrives are fun but damn expensive for what they are games really don't need them, with that said i have checked how much they are these days may have come down in price.

Hmm. Well, I'm going through Newegg's guides. Hopefully they can shine a light on this for me. Thanks for your help as well.

Good luck dude any questions drop me a message ill answer as best i can

 

[MrTub]

Honestly if you are building on a budget I would skip ssd and put that money on gpu cause IMO I rather have more fps then faster load times for maps.