Buying a new PC

Daethwalker

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Hiyas,
I've upgraded my old pc to the max and it's now having problems handling new games. I haven't bought a factory PC in 15 yrs or more. I was considering buying all the parts and building a new pc from scratch when I came across this : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227580
It's on sale, free shipping, free tablet and a $40 gift card. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think I could build a pc with these components any cheaper than just buying this one. What do you think? Worth it?
 
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Once you go beyond $500 -$600, building is far better than buying.
ALL the prebuilts in your price range will be lacking in some major way.

jty0yt

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That CPU and that GPU.... The CPU IS A 400 DOLLAR CPU AND THE GPU IS A 90 DOLLAR GPU! NO NO NO! Do not get that PC! Buy the parts yourself and build them yourself!

Things to look at. They are advertising a 1TB HDD, who does that? They want inexperienced people to come up and say WOW 1 TERABYTE and 8 GIGABYTES of RAM! You don't even know the latency or brand!

Trust me a build your own PC.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($139.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($185.66 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Micro Center)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $748.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-27 12:55 EDT-0400
 

Daethwalker

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Well, the thing is I really don't have the time or energy to build another PC right now. So, if the one I listed is not a good one any suggestions? I'd like to keep it under $1,000.