Best Value Gaming PC Brands

[spartans15]

Hello,

I'm looking to buy a gaming PC for around $1,000-$1,200 and I'm wondering if you guys could point me to the best performance for price. The best I found so far was the Digital Storm Vanquish 4, which is an NVIDIA GTX 960, 120GB SSD, i5 6500 build for $1,000. Before someone asks, I did consider building my own and I decided against it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[CTurbo]

You will never find in a pre-built PC what you could have by building. The above mentioned PC sounds more like a $600-700 PC and should be no where near $1000. I ask you to reconsider building your own. You won't regret it.

 

[why_wolf]

To get value out of a prebuilt system (other than just not want to assemble it yourself) you really have to look at refurbs. Buying a used or overstock of last years model usually knocks off a few hundred bucks and brings the price back down to the range you'd find in DIY.

 

[CTurbo]

Here is a basic price comparison for a build with those parts if you were to build it yourself. This build has a much better motherboard and a much more reliable psu. You would probably need to replace the psu in any pre-built PC because they are almost always terrible.



PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($199.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($159.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX XT 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer ($14.88 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($87.95 @ OutletPC)
Total: $777.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-13 11:58 EST-0500

 

[AngelOfDarkness]

If you wanna get the best bang for your buck then you gotta build your pc yourself and buy the components separately.

Here you go

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($30.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($37.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card ($293.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Raidmax ATX-249B (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($48.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive ($12.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($87.95 @ OutletPC)
Total: $792.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-13 12:11 EST-0500

 

[hang-the-9]

Hello,

I'm looking to buy a gaming PC for around $1,000-$1,200 and I'm wondering if you guys could point me to the best performance for price. The best I found so far was the Digital Storm Vanquish 4, which is an NVIDIA GTX 960, 120GB SSD, i5 6500 build for $1,000. Before someone asks, I did consider building my own and I decided against it.

Thanks in advance.

Get a used business workstation computer for maybe $250, $200 for a video card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883282649 <-- will run upto about a GTX 950 with no issues on the stock power supply, with a $60 PSU upgrade can go higher.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA42J3SC3625 <-- needs a different power supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4GH3KG7131 <-- will run a GTX 950
easily, maybe up to a GTX 960 also, power supply upgrade will also be usable in this one. This may be the best one to get, fairly cheap and is a workstation system.