Hey I found this website (ibuypower.com) and they make custom gaming desktops and I wanted to know has anyone heard of them and are they a good place to get one from.

Seems a little pricey.

What Jay said ^. They are a little pricey.

Edited February 25, 201214 yr by GTAIVCode3

get a custom built gaming computer why?, your getting what you paid for and you know what yor getting :)

do yall know any other places that have good gaming pc

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

Most "gaming computers" sold by big box retailers are always heavily bottlenecked by the GPU. The likes of ibuyPOWER and CyberPowerPC are a bit more balanced, but they are still bottlenecked. I initially was going to buy an iBuyPOWER PC, but then I realized that building a PC would be cheaper, and I would be able to get better parts. I would suggest Newegg or TigerDirect for buying PC parts online. If you are unable to build a PC, some retailers do have technicians that can build PCs for you, for an additional cost of ~$75. If you want to upgrade your PC, you must also remember that it voids your warranty for a ready-made computer.

Buy all the parts yourself and then buy a screwdriver, you'll save a few hundred in the process. Maybe even a thousand if you're lucky. Granted, it's still going to be pretty damn expensive for a high-quality gaming computer, but compared to manufactured computers, building your own computer is extremely cheap and it'll perform better for longer. Some can even say that they're more stable, too, but that's really only if you know what you're doing.

For example: just the other day I had discovered the root cause of a seemingly simple problem. For the past year or so, every time that I did turn off my computer to work on it (maybe two or three times, no more) it would be a pain in the ass to turn it back on and get it to POST. Pressing the power button once never worked, no. Fiddling between the power button and the reset button back and forth really fast for a few seconds did work. So I had simply assumed that when I had installed a new motherboard a couple of years ago I had fucked up the wiring for the power button and reset button and the right signals were going to the wrong places. However, after installing an extension USB card (I always seem to run out of ports, haha) my computer failed to POST and absolutely nothing worked like it had in the past. Upon reading my motherboard's manual, it turns out that the onboard self-check-test indicator LED's were pointing out a memory error. I began to pop out each stick and fool around with it to see which stick (or sticks) might be causing the error and found out that it was one stick preventing me from turning on my computer. Popped it out, left it out, computer turned on right away, and I only lost one gig of memory, bringing me down to a total of 5. Not bad, seeing as how the stick itself was two or three years old anyway. If I had this issue with a manufactured PC then they probably would have had some long phone conversation with me and eventually tell me that I needed a new computer. Fuck that, I'm not going to ship away my computer and wait for another one which I would need to repopulate. tl;dr Build your own if you're smart enough and calm enough to deal with any issue that could arise.

IBuyPower's a fine website. I would not go to a local retail store to get a gaming computer, they're usually underwhelming for the money and will be from a generic brand like Dell or HP and have weak video cards. A lot of people here forget that some people are completely clueless with a screwdriver in their hands, and having it built for them is sometimes a better solution. I support that site as they give you some quality stuff that ends up being cheaper than Alienware and other comparable brands.