anyone have a corsair prebiild gaming desktop?
 

curious if anyone has any of the corsair one a200, etc.

why would you buy a pre built pc and overspend by hundreds

Because it save time?

The a200 is ridiculous expensive. I just put a 13900K and 4070ti system together for a grand less.

exactly.......

Saves less than 1 hour putting it together?

I've built a dozen home PCs and several dozen servers 20-25 years ago...

Nowadays I'm overwhelmed by choice and options, and the idea of choosing 20 components to add to cart and arrive at home in a huge pile so I can spend the afternoon assembling it gives me anxiety.

"Hundreds" is literally nothing. I want this shit to show up at my door and work when I turn it on. I choose the base specs I want, get the amex points, deduct the depreciation. Too old to get into the weeds every time I want a new PC.

you got a motherboard, some ram, the CPU, a video card, a hard drive..

that's about all you need

That particular Corsair system seems to be selling a lot of last generation parts at a huge premium.

Assembling a PC is much easier than it used to be. MSI Mobo, DDR5 RAM, 4000 Series GPU and you can get one of those WD Black 2TB M2 SSD for about $100. When I bought the board and CPU the shop mounted the chip and updated the BIOS for me. No worry about bending socket pins.

I enjoyed it myself...

my friend ordered one from amazon a200, has ryzen 16 core, 32gb, 3080 gpu.

nothing but problems.

the ordered unit the gpu failed after 1 month

got an RMA replacement unit that came and was slow, the fans were fucked up on the unit, ended up sending that back for a 3rd RMA which came this week.

Set it up for him, couldnt connect to wifi wouldnt let you pick a network, managed to hardwire plug into router and set it up.

Windows wasnt activated so i had to use one my own oem keys.

The system top fan is super loud even when jusrt idle, i thought it maybe icue, but when uninstalled the fan was still loud, so it had nothing to do with icue.

You cant even sleep in the same room asa the machnine because of it being so loud.

It works aside fromt the super loud top fan, he really doesnt want to send back for a 4th unit.

I suggested maybe taking the ryzen cpu out, memory, gpu, and ssd and build his own system with those parts.

I'm still using an i-5 6600K :upsidedow

This. The hours I’d spend shopping, building, updating and potentially troubleshooting faulty hardware or drivers are worth WAY more than the few extra hundred dollars I’d pay for someone else to do it for me.

Yep, that is another reason why i bought pre-made. Plus, it's been more then decade from last time when i bought Desktop PC, so my knowledge about setting desktop PC is a bit outdated.

Ordered one of these models end of 2020 needed a new pc and its beefy

https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/...-Pro-Gaming-PC

Time >> Money

There was a time when all of us in the industry used to build our own computers. I used to love building my own PC - spending months planning out what I wanted to do, watching sales in newspapers for computer parts, hours spent at Fry's Electronics researching prices. The best was buying memory. I remember buying memory from a store that all they sold was memory - a little tiny store, no sign, just a bunch of display cases with memory, cash only.

Eventually you learn it's much easier to buy something off the shelf. Last time I bought a PC it was from Alienware, max it out, done. It's eight years old. When something breaks you fix it or replace it. In fact, I think my replacement liquid cooling system is from Cosair. I upgrade the video card every so often....

I never built a PC. I like using them, not building them. I also don't do my own oil changes. I know how to, but Jiffy Lube.

There's a heap of individuals/small businesses that do custom builds. While more expensive than doing it yourself, they're still way cheaper than prepackaged systems and you get to choose what you want in it.