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Never heard of ABS Computers, are they crap? All the brands I remember went out of business or are shells of their former self thru buyouts - I'm looking at you Alienware.
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Palum
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Falcon Northwest is still around.
If you want a deal that you can get out of when it doesn't work get something at Costco.
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Lanx
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if you parted out the parts on partpicker it's well over the sticker price, but it's not something anyone here would "choose" to put in their own system.
lets just start at the heart of the pc...
yea the psu, i'm sure no one would ever suggest to put in an abs psu, sure abs is neweggs custom pc arm, but for the same cost or $30 more (and not being able to find much "new" info on their psu), i'd gladly substitute a seasonic/corsair/evga
and that will be the theme of the pc
the parts will be
"good enough"
but no one would ever really get a bottom of the rung kingston 1tb nvme (which is probably pci3) and would pay "a bit more" for a gen4/gen5 for a crutial p3/wd black 870, etc
but then, you get a pre made system shipped to you, all you have to do it connect it and turn it on and you get neweggs wonderful warranty that no one says is super sus
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Denamian
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ABS is an in house brand of Newegg. GN reviewed one of it PCs a few years ago and it was at least competently built for the most part.
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Synj
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Nah. I used to have Fry’s Electronics which had a surprisingly robust PC parts inventory.Lies! It took me six hour to put together my overly expensive nightmare.
Synj you live near a microcenter?
I know it’s not all that hard to build, I’m just being lazy and not wanting to fall into the typical analysis paralysis that generally occurs when trying to figure out my optimal build.
Control
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I haven't used one in forever, so I can't recommend anything but surely there are places that will let you pick and choose your parts and then ship you a completed system. If they start with a decent base system and let you pick upgrades from a reasonable selection, that should save most of the paralysis I would think.
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Go look at what costco has. they usually have a few great deals on midrange rigs. Most which have like a 4060 ti in it and a good i5 or i7 for $1000-$1500.
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Agree. Texture quality is almost entirely dependent on VRAM and high quality textures will have virtually no impact on FPS, even on a budget card (assuming enough VRAM). The impact of too little VRAM is bigger on budget cards too, since they tend to have reduced PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth. HUB has a recent video showing 4GB vs 8GB on a 6500XT, but they also have other videos where things like a 8GB 3070 has bad frame pacing compared to 16GB 6800 even for RT enabled games once they VRAM is filled. Or modern games where 8GB isn't enough for all the eye candy.
Control
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Also consider that a top end machine will probably last you 5+ years, probably even longer if you don't upgrade monitors before your pc. With inflation as it is, buying a monster machine now might be a better deal than a mid-range every 2ish years.
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My last PC lasted like 5-6 yrs with a 1070, upgraded to 9600K, and now my kid is playing on it with his 3060ti.
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