Should You Build Or Buy Your Gaming PC? 🤔

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The Gaming PC Used In This Video:

Hyte Y60 PC Case

Motherboard

Intel Core i5 14600k CPU:

Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 RAM

RTX 4070 Super Graphics Card

Crucial P3 Plus SSD

Power Supply

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00:00 Build Vs Buy?
01:04 The Upsides Of Build Your Own PC
04:33 The Downsides Of Building Your Own PC
07:23 Buying From An System Integrator
08:59 The Downsides of an SI
11:58 Buying a Pre-Built from A Big Name Brand...
16:27 What Should You Do?

[akuasensu]

building my first pc was actually pretty straightforward thanks to all the pc centric videos I've watched

[Stock--Rosso]

I've done and do both. Just make sure your PC builder gives you the choice of every part used and NEVER BUY A PRE-BUILT! You may get lucky with a pre-built, but most of the time they'll cheap out on one or more parts Great video👍🏼

[antondovydaitis]

It's been almost exactly two years since I bought my budget gaming laptop for $700, and I knew then that I could not yet build a comparable PC myself at that time.

I had a lot to learn.

But now, after studying channels like yours, I am about to build my own budget gaming PC out of parts I sniped on discount one at a time.

I am still a bit anxious about putting it all together, but the investment in knowledge and skill is well worth it.

If this works out, I should be able to build another in a few years with a somewhat larger budget and a lot more performance.

I am grateful for your channel.

[BigWillieStyle]

2020 couldn't get a PS5, so I decided I'm going to build a PC.

Found this channel.

4 years later, I have 5 PC builds and am waiting for AMD 9000 chips to build my 6th.

He isn't kidding about it becoming a hobby. It's addicting 😅

[ManndoVR]

Im nervous about building PC and also buying one, there’s a Best Buy near me, I can check out what’s there first I just need help knowing how to stop worrying, this video helped me calm myself down and helped me understand how the pcs work.

[The-Real-Kevin]

I watched hundreds of build videos before building my own and became addicted to watching them no matter high or low end pcs. It’s just a cool hobby.

[powerface]

I did one of PC Centric's builds, the AMD 7900 XTX GPU, Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, I sourced all the parts and it cost me under 2500 UDS! THANK YOU PC CENTRIC!!!!

[xreddragon]

I’ve done both. And definitely will be building going forward. The ability to make it yourself and have it work is such a rewarding experience.

Just built my new rig close to a year ago and I love it

[letterkeys]

I have absolutely zero interest spending hours diagnosing what component went wrong and going back and forth between computer shops. Prebuilt warranty is just a quality of life thing im willing to bite the bullet on

[trev]

I did my first build in the mid-1990s (a 486 DX2-66 system). Hooked from then on and turned the passion into a full-time job and a small business (and still a hobby helping friends with their builds). I suppose I'm what you'd call REALLY "Old Skool"!

[xRECONCILEDX]

Also, staying organized with all the screws and parts while building help for first timers

[MasterInDiguise]

Microcenter built my pc and it was amazing. Chose all the parts, they gave me suggestions on my needs, and then built it.

[komakie]

Always build my own. It's funny, is cheaper, you learn stuff every time and you get to show off :P

[YuniorGamboa]

I bought mine pre-built from Nzxt because a friend recommended it and they have been a great investment.
When making the order I had another guy who bought his from Scratch but helped choose the best part for my rig.
Throughout the years, I have been learning and upgrading the parts and now I have no problem building one on my own.

[davidrojas]

I spent about 3 years of reasearching pc gaming. I decided to go with a pre built pc as my first rig for many reasons( I love this pc). Mainly because coming from counsel, i have no knowledge besides all the research and videos i saw on building pcs and all. Bought the pre built for me to be able to turn all that research to hands on learning and experience. Now I am building my second rig, which is my first pc. i built myself.

[kingscrub]

When I did my research leading up to the build of my pc, and this channel helped me get comfortable and familiar with my parts. You even had some builds that used parts I bought so i was able to see the basics of how things work. My brother describes it best I think, "PC building is just adult Lego."

[gdr]

Thanks to channels like this I feel confident enough to build my own this year. Also half the fun involves the research.

[whitson]

"Richard Head" - very good - Also the absolute elation when you fire up the home-built for the first time and it works, unmatched!

[ASOGAMERS]

I’m building my second pc now. I started buying parts a few months ago, only if the price was significantly discounted. I just picked up a XFX Merc 7900xtx today for $869 at Best Buy. I have the CPU, Ram, and more storage left. I’m waiting to see if the 9000 series CPU’s are going to be. worth it. In the end, I’m going to have saved approximately $450 on my build by waiting for sales.

[AntonioPerez]

I bought a prebuilt from Best Buy and I couldn’t be happier with it. The specs are: Ryzen 5 5500, RTX 4060, 1TB of NVME 4 SSD, 600 PSU, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, all on a B550 motherboard. I do eventually wanna upgrade the RAM, motherboard, and CPU one day.