Hi! Recently I've been having someone in need of a nice computer (for gaming and school work) and he looked into this HP Envy. I've heard that custom computers tend to be much better than all in one computers so I made my own and ended up having a higher price even though the memory and hard drive have lower gigabytes. I know those aren't the only specs to take into account but I would like to know how I can lower the cost to reach about $1700 range and what parts of the customized computer may need tweaking (slightly worried about Intel X79 chipset motherboards needing a BIOS update prior to using Ivy Bridge-E CPUs; did anyone have any problems?). Thank you!
HP ENVY Phoenix 810-170st Desktop PC HP ENVY Phoenix 810-170st Desktop PC
E3W49AV#ABA:
Windows 8.1 Pro 64
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4820K processor quad-core [3.7GHz, 10MB Shared Cache]
2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 [DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, DP, DVI to VGA dongle]
16GB DDR3-1600MHz [2 DIMMs]
3TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
No Secondary HDD
Microsoft Office Trial
Security software trial
Blu-ray Reader & SuperMulti DVD burner
15-in-1 Multi-slot Media Card Reader, 4 USB Ports (Front/Top), Audio [Front 2USB2.0, Top 2USB3.0]
No TV Tuner Card
Integrated Sound, Envy Audio; Beats Audio
HP USB Keyboard and USB Optical Mouse
HP WLAN 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth®(1x1)
HP Pavilion 23xi 23-inch Diagonal IPS LED Backlit Monitor
Custom build:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Ec3F
HP ENVY Phoenix 810-170st Desktop PC HP ENVY Phoenix 810-170st Desktop PC
E3W49AV#ABA:
Windows 8.1 Pro 64
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4820K processor quad-core [3.7GHz, 10MB Shared Cache]
2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 [DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, DP, DVI to VGA dongle]
16GB DDR3-1600MHz [2 DIMMs]
3TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
No Secondary HDD
Microsoft Office Trial
Security software trial
Blu-ray Reader & SuperMulti DVD burner
15-in-1 Multi-slot Media Card Reader, 4 USB Ports (Front/Top), Audio [Front 2USB2.0, Top 2USB3.0]
No TV Tuner Card
Integrated Sound, Envy Audio; Beats Audio
HP USB Keyboard and USB Optical Mouse
HP WLAN 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth®(1x1)
HP Pavilion 23xi 23-inch Diagonal IPS LED Backlit Monitor
Custom build:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Ec3F