Many Lemmings here are talking about how you can save money by buying the parts individually. That’s definitely correct, but I also want to mention that the specs that you chose are nearly the latest and greatest that you can get today. Depending on the games that your son plays/wishes to play, this might be an overkill build. Will you also be getting a high refresh rate and/or 4K monitor to even be able to use that RX 7900XTX at its full potential? Most PC gamers don’t have anywhere near the power of this build, and can still enjoy playing games on it just as much. If, however, you just want the best thing that money can buy AND something with potential for an upgrade in the future, I don’t have anything to say against this build.
P.S. If you bought the parts separately, your son can assemble them himself. I know from personal experience that it’s very fun to see your work come to life.
Its not even true anymore you get way better deals with half off or more sales that are fairly frequent. You can sometimed get a solid pc with a part for near the price of a part
Yeah, during the GPU shortage of '20/'21, I ended up buying a prebuilt so I could at least get the GPU at RETAIL price. It was at a time when flipping GPUs on ebay was all the rage and you’d be paying 25%-100% more than it was worth to a scalper.
The system integrators get a better price on parts than we do, and now many of them are selling them for less or precisely the retail price of all the components. You really have to shop around though, some “premium boutiques” like Maingear can be 50-100% more expensive than the competition… They’re selling the same product so I don’t really see the value they bring at that price, but I’m sure as hell not paying $2,000 for their tech support.
Many Lemmings here are talking about how you can save money by buying the parts individually. That’s definitely correct, but I also want to mention that the specs that you chose are nearly the latest and greatest that you can get today. Depending on the games that your son plays/wishes to play, this might be an overkill build. Will you also be getting a high refresh rate and/or 4K monitor to even be able to use that RX 7900XTX at its full potential? Most PC gamers don’t have anywhere near the power of this build, and can still enjoy playing games on it just as much. If, however, you just want the best thing that money can buy AND something with potential for an upgrade in the future, I don’t have anything to say against this build.
P.S. If you bought the parts separately, your son can assemble them himself. I know from personal experience that it’s very fun to see your work come to life.
Its not even true anymore you get way better deals with half off or more sales that are fairly frequent. You can sometimed get a solid pc with a part for near the price of a part
Yeah, during the GPU shortage of '20/'21, I ended up buying a prebuilt so I could at least get the GPU at RETAIL price. It was at a time when flipping GPUs on ebay was all the rage and you’d be paying 25%-100% more than it was worth to a scalper.
The system integrators get a better price on parts than we do, and now many of them are selling them for less or precisely the retail price of all the components. You really have to shop around though, some “premium boutiques” like Maingear can be 50-100% more expensive than the competition… They’re selling the same product so I don’t really see the value they bring at that price, but I’m sure as hell not paying $2,000 for their tech support.