That stealth chair is nice but I find it hard to spend that kinda coin on a chair…though I bet my back would like it
I religiously used the Naga ever since it came out, my first one lasted 7 years and only had to be replaced after my buddies cat chewed through the cord. Got a new one in early 2017, and the optic stopped tracking after about a year.
I’ve since switched to Redragon for my peripherals, and haven’t looked back.
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Herman Miller as someone mentioned are standard high-end go to office chairs.
You could also check out chairs by secret labs. They have various size gaming chairs (Titan looks great and durable for taller/heavier gamers). They also have a more traditional office type chair of a similar make to the Herman Miller chair, I believe it’s called the Neue Chair.
New PC for Classic, lol. Overkill is an understatement.
I have a ‘Vertagear SL5000’ - amazing chair, would recommend.
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Don’t forget your gaming rug!
I know right? Shopping for the individual pieces, putting it all together and getting that first functional boot is way more fun than it should be. I know I have to look around for the pieces I want since I hate LED lights. I even have tape over my keyboard lights
Dude I hate lights too. I don’t even connect the LED headers for the power indicator. My motherboard had some small RBG options but I shut them off. My graphics card has it on the logo and I’m hoping I can shut it off.
My case and fans have zero lights whatsoever. No window either.
I just like the clean professional look more. Fractal Define R6 is the case I got.
I actually just did my first boot test an hour ago. All clear and ready for me to go back through with custom cables and clean it up.
Sorry for being mean earlier. I deleted my post.
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Building your own PC was maybe interesting in the late 90s when it required a modicum of technical chops, but nowadays it’s basically LEGO. The small amount of money you save by buying the parts and putting them together yourself is so not worth it anymore.
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I disagree.
For what I will spend on say a bottom tier Alienware Aurora I can build a PC that is either just as fast or faster, and for less money. Plus I won’t have to deal with all the bloatware that might come with it and I know EXACTLY what parts are in it and who made them and who to contact if a part is bad (Newegg is really good about returns and fairly quick with them as well).
Plus, the entire process of researching parts and then putting them together is actually quite fun for me. There’s a certain satisfaction that comes with using something you built everyday and seeing it last for years.
Obviously you need the technical knowledge to build it and get the proper parts, but I have this knowledge, so why not use it? Why let this knowledge rot just to save a few bucks?
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A monkey could build a PC these days. It’s not some special thing which only a select few know. For those who don’t want to waste time researching parts and getting individual parts shipped, only to find out the DIMM is busted and have to send it back, etc., there are tons of pre-builts that accomplish the same goal and in fact, these days, can actually costs less.
Unless you like the hassle it’s not at all worth it.
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I think you’re underestimating how difficult building PC actually is. It really is a special thing which only a select few know. Those select few might be quite prevalent within the gaming community, but in terms of the larger population such people are quite rare. And even then the gaming community has expanded considerably over the past decade, so even within the gaming community such people might be more rare than they were before.
It might seem like LEGOs to someone who knows what they’re doing, but to someone who doesn’t you might as well have given them hieroglyphics to translate. I bet even if you gave someone without technical knowledge all the parts needed to assemble a PC and told them to do it they still wouldn’t be able to do it because they would quit out of frustration before they finished. Heck I’d be amazed if they could even mount the processor properly.
Consider for example, Alienware (due to their popularity): For the Aurora system (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-desktop-computers/alienware-aurora/spd/alienware-aurora-r8-desktop/WDshaTcrR810s) they want to start me out at the base level with an HDD. This alone is a total crock and a waste of money since SSDs are quite cheap and are light years faster than an HDD. But not only this, they also want to charge me anywhere from $230 for a 512Gb SSD up to $820 for a 2 Tb M.2 nvme. Meanwhile I can go on Newegg and get a comparable SSD or M.2 for half or less than half of what they want to charge me: https://www.newegg.com/Internal-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-636?Tid=11693 and with the money I save could actually even buy a Windows 10 key if I needed it and probably still spend less than what they want to charge.
And do you know why Alienware can do this? Because most people don’t actually know how to build a PC and are willing to spend extra money, even exorbitantly, for someone else to do it for them.
So I still disagree with you. Most people cannot build a PC. And prebuilts are not in fact cheaper, they are more expensive because manufacturers are interested in making a profit and will seize any opportunity to do so. Alienware, for example, charges exorbitant amounts for an SSD because: (1) they know people know they are significantly faster, (2) they know that they will pay for the extra speed, and (3) they know that most people cannot build a PC. If most people could they would be out of business, or at least lowering their prices for SSDs.
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Now, overclock that thing to static 5GHz on all cores!!
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I think I’ll hold out on that one for now. Would need a lot of different cooling and perhaps a slightly bigger PSU. BUt OC is part of my longevity plan if need be, hence why I bought the K model ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
You should go watch a certain The Verge PC building video I think…
Then think that most likely, a lot of people would be worse than that at building one.
I agree that for people who can’t be bothered building one should buy a prebuilt, but the premium that some companies put on them is just ridiculous. They think they’re apple or something. (Prime example is this Corsair)-
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I’ve been building PCs since literally 1998. The process now vs. then is 180 degrees separated. Anyone who can watch a YouTube video is potentially capable of building a PC. It’s really not as special as you want to make it. Nobody wants to do that though and so a prebuilt is generally best option when the user’s time and energy is factored in.
Again, in a lot of cases a comparable prebuilit can actually cost less than if you were to buy the parts individually.
But whatever, the whole point was to assure the OP that buying a prebuilt is not only viable, but in most cases, preferred.
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Don’t worry @Cheater-azjolnerub 
I think most people are against prebuilts so I get it xD
No changes all raids better be capped at 15 FPS
….ok…
1660 ventus. Im in love with it. Good price hell of a.card.