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Oh boy, inflammatory headline up there, you bet - but it’s kinda true.
At last count, I had completed something like 90 published build logs.
The Corsair One is a phenomenal pre-built system - and far more compact than anything the average builder could assemble themselves.
I’ve done a lot with it.
It’s a big part of what I do.
The Cost
Enough fluff; why am I so enamored with system builders?
The Corsair One is a phenomenal pre-built system - and far more compact than anything the average builder could assemble themselves.
Is it because I worked at Corsair years ago and secretly hate the job I’ve created for myself?
That’s sarcasm, by the way.
Nope, the biggest reason, by far, is cost and access.
Finding a new GPU during the chip shortage was a nightmare - and it’s still not easy.
Good people scrambled for hardware and components.
Building a custom rig was damn near impossible, at a reasonable price anyway.
Even getting access to the hardware via traditional avenues was an insurmountable task.
CyberPower’s pre-built PCs are good quality and promise a nice, tidy interior - no need for expert cable management skills on your part.
They had a direct line of access to Nvidia, AMD,Intel, and their AIB partners.
Then there’s the cost.
That requires ungodly amounts of graphics cards, processors, RAM, motherboards, you name it.
What that means is they buy them in by the pallet.
We’re talking 1,000 GPUs at a time, or more.
It’s nigh-impossible).
Build costs are fairly minimal as well.
Quality Control
And then there’s the overall quality of the rig.
Cable management, cooling, overclockingall of it is going to be finely dialed from the jump.
It’ll just work straight out of the gate.
Just Buy It?
So, chuck everything away then, close that PCPartPicker tab, and just buy a prebuilt, then?
Well, yes and no.
It’s like your car, right?
Usually for some ridiculous investment of time or sum of money along the way.
More than enough for the average Joe.
I love building PCs; I do.
