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Help! Hurry! Please! Buying PC Tonight!
I need the best for $1,000 or less.
I competent enough to plug in components to "build" a pc, but I DON'T want to. I want to buy a great pre-made box! I know $1k wont get me a Vette, or a Ferrari. I hoping it can get me a SS Camaro or a Challenger with a Hemi, you know?
Help me out guys/gals. Link some good running rigs for me. I plan to order tonight! THANKS!!
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I can't recommend a pre built PC, but I can say what components I have and so far this has been the best PC I've built.
It has a core i7 2600k CPU. There are newer CPUs and I would recommend a core i5 as they are cheaper and work just as well with games. There are a few that are extremely low voltage/heat generation 65 to 95 watts.
I have a GTX 680 and have used a GTX 660 ti. Both are made by ASUS. I did a lot of research on powerful, low power graphics cards that are quiet. ASUS was especially good in the noise level department. Their custom fans are fairly large which means less noise. The ASUS GTX 760 looks like it uses almost the same fan and would probably be good for a 1080p monitor/tv. I'd imagine the 770 and 780 would be fine as well.
I have a 1 TB SSD by Seagate and a 250 GB SSD by Crucial. They both work really well. I would get one if you can afford it. They further reduce the heat/noise level and give a increase to performance.
I don't believe memory is that important. Any DDR3 1600ish will do these days. I'd look for either 4 or 8 GB of RAM.
"I competent enough to plug in components to "build" a pc, but I DON'T want to."
You lost me there. Why would anyone buy pre-built pc if you know how to do it yourself. You can build nice pc for 1,000 but pre-built would be junk at that price. The parts they put in pre-built are so bad and you can't expand if you ever want to.
if you absolutely have to get one prebuilt your best bet is gonna be ibuypower or cyberpower they at least have some customizable processes that allow you to pick and choose what components go into the pc though neither have excellent track records for customer service.
If your more patient you can use pcpartpicker.com and put a configuration together yourself and put it together also don't forget to add in an os which will probably run you around 75-100$ as well. I know alot of ppl prefer to use linux which is slowly gaining more and more support in recent years in developers but your really limited still on the games you can play on a linux os. also teksyndicate does all sorts of kill your console budget builds that beat out the current ps4/xbone in graphics and performance strictly for gaming but 9 times outta ten the budgets and builds they use don't include an os cause its more a preference type thing.
https://teksyndicate.com/stories/buildapc
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The reviewer has a mishapen head
Which means his opinion is skewed
...Aldous.MF'n.Huxley
Because he is rich and he does not want to spend the time of doing so?
This is no difference than Bill Gates paying some high price personal assistant $50 an hour to fetch him coffee .. while he is perfectly capable of fetching his own coffee.
I know where you are and what that's like man. So I did some checking around and HERE is one potential rig for you with a lot of bang for the buck. I hope you find the right machine man. Good luck.
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In that case, why the $1000 budget?
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To the original poster: don't be in such a hurry. A perfectly sensible $1000 computer for someone else may make no sense at all for you.
What needs to fit in your budget? Do you need new peripherals (keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, surge protector)?
Also before choosing between rigs (after you narrow it down), check these benchmark tests out on GPUs an CPUs.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
Some CPUs like the i5 3570k outstrip a lot of i7s. So don't just go with the newest processor or GPU, check out how they actually stack up for the price. Also Newegg is still a prime spot because they order form ibuypower and other sites in bulk and then mark down some really decent rigs.
No, not rich
At the same time it may take me longer than 30 mins too 
I just figured that gaming rigs with good processors, graphics cards, hard drives, power supplies, and lots of room for memory would be easy to come by now a days. I'm gonna check some of the links you guys left now.
As for peripherals, I figure I can scoop a decent monitor for a about 200. That's all I need, and I didn't include that in the 1000. Thanks a lot guys. I'll be back to this thread once I think I've found what I need.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227505
I was looking at Crazy_Sticks link on newegg too. All the gaming rigs PCs seem to come with mouse and keyboard. Am I able to buy just the tower?
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
http://www.avadirect.com/desktop-pc-configurator.asp?PRID=22369
Case: Antec Three Hundred
Power supply: Seasonic SSR-550RM
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46
Processor: AMD FX-6300
Memory: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 1600 MHz 9-9-9-24
Video card: VisionTek Radeon R9 270X
SATA "hard drive": Crucial 120 GB M500
Storage drive: Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Blue
DVD burner: LiteOn iHAS 124 (default)
OS: Windows 7 or 8.1, take your pick
Total: $961.91
On new egg I don't know but typically on the prebuilt ones which they get from cyberpower or ibuypower on the cyberpower configurators those are typically thrown in as a bonus for free and depending on the components you choose you may even get some free games. My only issue with the newegg deals is you don't know what all components are going into the computer themselves (which brand so on and so fourth) I'd at least like to know which company is making the gfx card who makes the ram and so on and things like that.
However in ordering parts to have built my own pc through newegg recently last year I found them to be very upfront and helpful like when I'd ordered my cpu last year and it came with scratches on it as though someone had scraped thermal paste off it and came with an older model (not so beefy stock cooler the 8350 was supposed to come with). I sent it back to them they got it within 2 days and were reshipping me a brand new one.
However the timing may have to do with i'm only a few hundred miles from their warehouse as well but there was no questioning my reason for the rma as well as when the new one came in I received the proper beefier stock heatsink that came with the amd 8 core 8350s which had a larger fan and surface area plus copper tubing to help dissipate heat that the previous heatsink didn't have.
I could pretty much guarantee you that the motherboard and power supply for both of those prebuilts are cheap junk. The memory and hard drive will probably also be the cheapest things that meet the claimed specs. And I'd also want an SSD on a $1000 budget, which neither of those computers offer.
The mouse and keyboard probably effectively cost only several dollars each. The tiny amount of money that they'd save from not including a mouse and keyboard wouldn't be enough to justify separate SKUs.
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The one quiz linked from avadirect is better and cheaper. Plus you dont have generic terms for components like " 600w power supply" . Which mean - its crappy so we wont tell you what it is- Same with the motherboard.
If you dont want to put one together yourself that ok, but do yourself a favor and at least know what components your buying. And have some control over whats in there. Sites like avadirect.com have a wide range of choices that you pick from. That way a generic shitty PSU or MOBO is only put into your system if YOU choose it.
It is your money to spend how you wish, just dont be shocked if you get subpar hardware by going with what you have linked above rather than take time to pick and choose the right components. Once again I would go with what Quiz posted over anything else linked in this thread.