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Bought an ABS prebuilt a few months ago with a 2600 and 5700, ended up upgrading the SSD, ram and CPU. Came with a low end asrock mobo and a raidmax gold PSU. Nothing but good things from the build overall, no problems with shipment either. 10/10 would buy a prebuilt from them again.
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
Anything special about the 10th gen i7 vs 9th gen?
10th gen has double the threads (16 vs 8) if you work with multithreaded applications. it is also clocked a bit higher (comparing 9700K to 10700K, for example)
You're paying about $200 more for the 10th gen i7 on this system than you would for the 9th gen i7 with the same system specs 1 year ago.
It's a reasonable price for what's offered at this point in the 10th gens life cycle.
10th gen intel still using 14nm lithography, same as their 5th gen Broadwell from 2014. Plenty of insignificant upgrades over the last 6 years. Only meaningful upgrade was 8th gen when AMD forced intel to increase its core count across the entire line.
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
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Can you explain? The price seem high tho
It's a reasonable price for what's offered at this point in the 10th gens life cycle.
The Aurora was a few hundred more on sale last month with 2080 Super.
It's a reasonable price for what's offered at this point in the 10th gens life cycle.
Anything special about the 10th gen i7 vs 9th gen?
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cpu: $330
gpu: $500
memory: $60
mobo: $80
case: $75
psu: $75
ssd: $100
cooler: $20
wifi card: $30
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
hopefully this helps.
It's a reasonable price for what's offered at this point in the 10th gens life cycle.
10th gen intel still using 14nm lithography, same as their 5th gen Broadwell from 2014. Plenty of insignificant upgrades over the last 6 years. Only meaningful upgrade was 8th gen when AMD forced intel to increase its core count across the entire line.
cpu: $330
gpu: $500
memory: $60
mobo: $80
case: $75
psu: $75
ssd: $100
cooler: $20
wifi card: $30
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
hopefully this helps.
Seems like a pretty good estimate on parts
cpu: $330
gpu: $500
memory: $60
mobo: $80
case: $75
psu: $75
ssd: $100
cooler: $20
wifi card: $30
these are somewhat realistic/conservative estimates, and still comes out to $1270 before windows. add windows cost (legal copy) and build cost (i believe microcenter charges $150) and it's above the 1400.
yes, if you can build your own, it'll be cheaper. but if you can build your own, then you wouldn't be considering this anyway.
i've never dealt with ABS, so i don't know what dealing with their warranty is like. but if they are any good, then having to deal with one manufacturer vs troubleshooting on your own makes life easier.
additional considerations:
cpu is not OC'able and mobo isn't OC friendly.
it looks like an matx board (correct me if i'm wrong), with limited expansion slots if you plan on adding anything. looks like it does have 4 memory slots though, if you want to upgrade memory later.
nvidia rtx 30xx are on the horizon, so if you care about having the newest parts, the feeling of owning the newest gpu will be relatively short-lived.
this will handle 1440p gaming just fine, and will handle some 4k gaming as well.
hopefully this helps.
How's that computer compare to this one