I can build a PC but I am not good at it. At least not with cable management. Are there any websites that sell PC builds for around the same cost it would cost me to buy parts and build?
I don't need a monitor or keyboard ect I just need a new PC. If the difference is small then it's worth it to me but if they charge hundreds extra then not worth. Thanks for help.
I'm a layperson so I'm more like you. But you still need to know what to look for. There is always something "missing" in a pre-built. Either enough ram, or an up to date video card, or a not-low-power cpu...my strategy for years was to buy a prebuilt and just add on what was missing. I'm definitely not anti-prebuilt though. I've had three last a ridiculously long time. (IBUYPOWER and HP, I don't remember the third one.) I never replaced fans or thermal paste or did any maintenance beyond compressed air for dusting so I'm not being contrarian, I'm genuinely surprised and impressed that they lasted so long, lol. But while I intentionally replaced some parts, I unintentionally went through cheap power supplies like water, which validates everything these guys are saying, because it's just luck that bad psus didn't make anything else go bad.
But for instance: I think
this one is pretty good, and at the time it was around $1000, maaaybe $1100? But imo it's light on ram and storage. Ram is cheap enough though, and I have storage, and that video card is money, so it's a good deal. And knowing what I know now, I would buy a fantastic new psu with all the money I saved and I would wait to see how it performs before thinking about a cooler. Naturally, It's been out of stock since the beginning of November. lol
About building a pc: it's super expensive the first time, and even the second. I've done two since november-ish, yikes. I ended up doing trial and error and that's just bad for the purse strings. Plus no one knew the motherboards turbo boosted 10th gen intel cpus automatically. I had to buy a whole new case and fans and I'm on my third cooler because figuring that out was out of order and messy. It's very exciting though. And I will end up with a killer system, way better than that ABS Mage. And it will last
forever. Except I have to work on my voltages but that's for another day.