Where is the cheapest and most reliable place to buy a custom pc?

Question

I want to pick my own specifications, but not pay for some outrageous features I'll never use. I also don't want to pay for a piece of junk either. Anyone have good experience with any custom building PC places on line?

Answer 1

NewEgg.com is far and away the best online source for PC's and parts. You can read reviews of other customers and write for tech support like; "Will this memory work with this board?" and get a response.

I use Dell's at work and am very unhappy with their feature set.
Perhaps it is just the models we buy, but they are cheap. Everything is extra. The one I am using right now only has one SATA port. That is cheap.

TigerDirect is not on my list. A quick search resulted in this site: http://www.tigerdirectsucks.org/wp/ which should give anyone pause.

If you go with a pre-built, you should pay a bit extra and have them assemble it and "burn it in" for a few hours. Most of the failures I've had when building a PC happen within the first day.

Answer 2

First: go to the manufacturer's website and go through it, acting as if you were going to buy one exactly as you'd customize it to your specs. Price it out. Fetch a final model number. You can opt out of the purchase at the last moment, or at least navigate away from the "Yes I want it!" page or close the browser or whatever...

*Then* and only then go places like CPU magazine and Radio Shack and maybe Ebay (or, heck, even Google's Froogle) and look for the *official part numbers* you garnered from the manufacturer's website!

Answer 3

I built my custom pc on tigerdirect.com but not to say you dont know about computers, but I chose all my parts individually and put it together my self. But im sure that there are other places that people can reccomend.

Answer 4

Dell

Answer 5

Nowhere... Go to best buy and buy one already made