Is it FINALLY More Cost Effective to Buy a Prebuilt?

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  @davorcaric3944 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ztsDRujUk&amp;t=80">1:20</a> You telling the parents out there that we don&apos;t need a 5090 GPU for MS Word/Excel is an outrageous level of betrayal.

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  @michaelblacktree · 1 month ago

  Jay has his glasses on. So you know we&apos;re nerding out today. 😎

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  @tomasmardones111 · 1 month ago

  bought all my parts in december last year, prices were already up but holy shit now they&apos;re insane

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  @Chakotay2222 · 1 month ago

  What I learned from this video, if you are in school and want good pc that your parents have to buy join 3d modeling class so you can demand workstation pc thats cost 3000+ usd

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  @ivi_lDgaming · 1 month ago

  Definitely will watch a review for that laptop

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  @BaseballGuy-w9q · 1 month ago

  My MSI prebuilt on pc part picker was $2200 and I bought it for $1600. Can&apos;t justify building my own pc for $600

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  @zgle · 1 month ago (edited)

  All these insane prices remind me of when building and buying PC&apos;s, with my Father back in the 80&apos;s, were just as insanely priced.

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  @MaximusYeet · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  Was gonna build my own computer but I saw a prebuilt for $1k on TerraCore PCs with an i5 13600K, an RTX 5060 and 32GBs of RAM. They plant a tree for every PC they build and when I priced those same parts out to build the system myself it was over $1400 so I bought that same PC from TerraCore PCs for about $1,080 when it was on sale. Great value good customer service and the tree things pretty cool

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  @Angryrider614 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Microcenter powerspec prebuilt &nbsp;9800x3d with a rtx5080 for $2500 is really hard to beat anymore lol

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  @colonelklink53 · 1 month ago

  I&apos;ve been building PCs for myself, friends and family for years. &nbsp;I build enthusiast PCs for myself. &nbsp;Last year, Nov. 2025, I finally decided to buy a super high-end Origin PC. &nbsp;I got a Founders RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB and 4 TB NVME HD. &nbsp;The price I paid to Origin was actually less than buying the parts myself. &nbsp;By the way, I&apos;ve been very happy with my purchase.

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  @7rich79 · 1 month ago

  I remember prebuilt desktops in the 1990s. They had lots of weirdness about them. An IBM or Dell or HP might have slightly different RAM slots, so you had to be careful you got the right pin number ram. Some had weird caddies for hard drives rather than standard 3.5&quot; bays. Motherboards didn&apos;t always use standard power connectors, so you could end up having to buy original power supplies to work with your motherboard. <br>I really, really, really hope that we&apos;re not going back to the dark ages here.

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  @guccimasterd8432 · 1 month ago

  I’m no expert. Never built my own rig. But Costco has been having clearance sales on some decent PCs to make way for the 2026 holiday stock. I got an ibuypower pc with an rtx 5070, 9800x3d, 2 tb ssd, 32 gb ram, liquid cooling for $1500.<br><br>As I bought it they were bringing in the holiday models with the SAME SPECS for $2300.

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