Review Corsair Vengeance a7500 review: High performance blended with high style

Just for comparison, if you were to purchase all the components separately for the a7500 and put it together yourself, it would cost $2,533.89.
You're saying this is north of $650 difference between what Corsair sells this for and what you can build it yourself for. I would like to see how you come up with this pricing. I'm by no means saying you chose bad components or whatnot - far from it - but I find a roughly 25% increase over base cost to be pretty large, especially when we're looking about pre-built PC's. Are we talking "these are compatible parts" or "these are as far as I can tell the exact same parts they use"? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!

Mindstab Thrull
*looks up at Endrek Sahr wistfully* When's lunch?
 
I've gotten tired of the fish tank and glow in the dark RGB setups. My recent build was all black and the only RGB is from the ASUS TUF which is subtle and the Thermalright AIO which is a halo just so I know it is on. All the fans are black and no RGB.

The corsair setup is priced too high. I did a similar build with a 9800X3D, 5080 64GB of CL30 RAM and a 1000W Corsair PSU for under $2500.