Comparison of Budget Pre-Built Gaming Desktops

Lwangmiester on 15/09/2018 - 13:51
Last edited 15/09/2018 - 19:33 by 1 other user

Hey all,

I'm in the market for a reasonably priced/decent value point gaming PC. I'd like to be able to play overwatch with decent performance on lowish (or hopefully mid range or better settings)

I am not looking to build my own, looking to purchase a prebuilt tower. I have been looking at the recent Dell towers that are 20% off on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Inspiron-Gaming-PC-Desktop-Intel…

$1108 after discount and cashback

I did some further searching and found this unit which seems comparable to me (fairly noobish with the tech spec stuff)

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-i5-8400-120GB-1TB-8GB-DDR4…

Which is $711.81 after 10% discount and cashback
Could anyone please drop me their opinions on which way I should go, am I missing some large problem with the cheaper setup?

Edit: looks like it is sold out but here are the specs from the $711 second unit
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Intel i5 8400 120GB/1TB 8GB DDR4 GTX 1060 6GB

Base Specifications:

Case: TechFast Leaper Case
Case Fans: (1x) 120mm Front Red LED Fan
Power Supply: 550W Power Supply
Motherboard: H310M Motherboard
System Cooling: Intel Stock Cooler
Processor: Intel Core i5 8400 Hexa Core Processor (2.8GHz - 4.0GHz TurboBoost)
Graphics Card: Single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Dedicated Graphics Card
Memory: 8GB DDR4 RAM (1 x 8GB)
Operating System: Not Included; see PC Upgrades section below
Primary Drive: 120GB Solid State Drive
Storage Drive: 1TB Hard Drive
Peripherals: Keyboard and Mouse Bundle

Warranty: 12 Month Return To Base Warranty

There is also this added which is a bit worrying right?

Components: Your system will ship with components from the following leading brands, depending on available stock:
RAM: TeamGroup, Crucial
Motherboard: Biostar, ASRock, ASUS
Power Supply: Thermaltake, Corsair, TechFast
Graphics Card: Biostar, ASUS, MSI
Solid State Drive: Western Digital, OSCOO
Hard Drive: Seagate, Western Digital
Individual component brand requests cannot be catered to at this stage.

Appreciate any thoughts on the subject, cheers

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  Godric on 15/09/2018 - 14:16

  +1

  What a mess to read

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    wangmiester on 15/09/2018 - 14:17

    Yeah, I had paragraphs in my original post but it came out like this. How do I add line breaks/paragraphs?

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  scrimshaw on 15/09/2018 - 17:13

  "Components: Your system will ship with components from the following leading brands, depending on available stock:"

  This is something all system builders will do, they will use whatever is available and at the lowest cost price to build a PC that meets your specifications.

  the brand of your computer parts generally don't matter much. The one part that does matter quite a bit is the brand of the power supply since there is a wide variance of quality between one brand to another — (i.e Techfast sounds like a generic Chinese OEM). BIOSTAR is also a motherboard brand that doesn't have much market or mindshare in Australia.

  With prebuild options and ordering over eBay you'll want to communicate to your seller that you want a certain brand but I guess there probably isn't a way to get them to hold their promise to use only "good brands" unless you want to pay the extra money and choose the part specifically as a component to build the PC with.

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  Presence on 15/09/2018 - 17:25

  Why are you so set on pre builts? Any computer shop will assemble any parts your want, with a warranty. You'll pay for assembly sure, but you'll get the parts you want.

  Almost all pre builts use shitty PSU and cheap cases.

  You can of course install windows yourself.

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  N1NJ4W4RR10R on 17/09/2018 - 22:49

  Any particular reason you want a pre-built?