prebuilt with shipping is going to be $1000

[frityn]

Hooray! My tax return is in and I'm ready to commit to a new gaming PC. Here's the thing, as I understand it, the prebuilts are probably going to use some shoddy hardware to turn a buck. Here's the problem, I have never built a PC and have ZERO interest in doing it myself.

Gamer Paladin E810 from ibuypower $932+$75 shipping

Case 1 x AZZA Armour Gaming Case - Red
Case Lighting 1 x Cold Cathode Neon Light - Red
Processor 1 x Intel® Core™ i5-4460 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/6MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling 1 x Asetek 510LC Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1150] - Standard 120mm Fan
Memory 1 x 8 GB [4 GB x2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand
Video Card 1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 - 4GB - Single Card
Motherboard 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H -- 1x PCIe 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0, 6x SATA-III 6Gb/s
Power Supply 1 x 500 Watt - Corsair CX500 V2 - 80 PLUS Bronze
Primary Hard Drive 1 x 2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
Optical Drive 1 x LG 14x Blu-ray Re-Writer, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black
Operating System 1 x Windows 8.1 + Office 365 Trial [Free 30-Day !!!] 64-bit

Cyberpowerpc $925+$75 shipping
CASE: CYBERPOWERPC X-Saber w/ USB 3.0, Large Side Panel Window [+6] (Black with Red LED)
CD: LG 14X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, 3D Playback DVD+RW Combo Drive (Black Color)
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 3.20 GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 [-56]
FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan)
HDD: 128GB SanDisk SSD + 1TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo [+43] (Combo Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory [-37] (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE Z97X-SLI ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI, 1 x M.2, 1 x SATA Express, or 6x SATA 6Gb/s (Extreme OC Certified)
OS: Windows 8.1
POWERSUPPLY: 500 Watts - EVGA 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply [+16]
VIDEO: EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) [+108] (Single Card)

So here's what I'm looking for from you all...

I've played around on pcpartpicker and found what I believe to be a satisfactory build for my budget.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LL3nrH
So obviously this saves me a few bucks and I know that all the parts should be of good quality. Does this list need any tweaking?

How would you go about finding someone to build your computer? I don't have any local friends that build PCs.

 

[getochkn]

CyberpowerPC uses decent quality stuff. The first clue is they list the brand names and they are decent brand names.

When it says

Midtower case+500w power supply it means it's total crap. The included PSU would suck and probably blow up.
If it was a Gainwood GPU or just generic AMD/NVidia card, it's usually crap.
etc.

They get a deal on buying bulk parts, make a small profit for putting it together and rely on bulk sales and bulk buying and do a good job.