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ChristineNZL

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#282646 3-Mar-2021 16:29

First up - I'm a complete novice when it comes to gaming PCs. My 17 year old son is saving up to get a gaming PC. He has figured out what he wants and will soon have enough money for it. What I would like to know is where in Wellington is the best place to get a PC built? As I have no idea what is required and how much it costs I just want to feel confident that he's going to someone who is reputable.

Thanks

Christine

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#2667455 3-Mar-2021 18:18

If your son is buying the parts himself and wants to have it put together then someone like PBTech do offer a service to build it for him. If it was me I'd encourage him to put it together himself and to be fair its more or less like building with lego, no much can go wrong if following a detailed guide from YouTube, however, it can also be quite daunting and intimidating as a first time so getting an experienced place like PBTech to do it is more then fine.

ChristineNZL

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#2667457 3-Mar-2021 18:43

Thank you. My husband might be able to help. I'll discuss with them.

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#2667922 4-Mar-2021 20:27

At the moment it seems the only way to get a graphics card is in a prebuilt system, since the ones on their own get sold before they hit the warehouse to people for mining purposes.

Also as an only PC, I would get something assembled already so you can take it back as a whole if it fails in some way, vs having to pull parts and take them in and hope that they also act up for them with their testing. Instability from dodgey ram can often not happen in another motherboard when they run different timings on it, so you take back ram that causes you faults, and they declare it no fault found and charge you for that.

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#2667933 4-Mar-2021 20:39

I've built all of my PCs up until last year, when I got PBTech to do it. Of the last three PCs I built two had a fault in at least one component - last one was power supply intermittent fault that I had no idea about, previous one was the power button on the case. SO MUCH easier when PBTech built it, they did the diagnosis and repair. Well worth the $100 or $150 or whatever it was.

ChristineNZL

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#2668484 5-Mar-2021 17:44

Thanks.

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#2669287 7-Mar-2021 07:44

This is not a bad buy and its local

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=77&topicid=282700&page_no=1#2669246

can always buy a better graphic card to go with it.

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ChristineNZL

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#2669372 7-Mar-2021 10:53

Jase2985:

This is not a bad buy and its local

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=77&topicid=282700&page_no=1#2669246

can always buy a better graphic card to go with it.

Thanks, I'll show that to him. He's very specific about what he wants.

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#2669378 7-Mar-2021 11:20

We are all specific about what we want until we see stock availability and refresh timelines 😂

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#2669539 7-Mar-2021 17:00

its better to be specific about what to use the computer for and be flexible around the components (to a degree) due to supply and costs at the moment. these issues are likely to be around for while.

ChristineNZL

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#2669698 7-Mar-2021 20:26

I hadn't thought about stock availability. Oh well, hopefully he can get something he'll be happy with or we'll never hear the end of it.