New build, could a prebuilt ever be better than building yourself?

[lahey]

Was going to come here for advice, but found these prebuilts, for seemingly a too good to be true price. Anyone see anything wrong with these, I do know that they are dells
[img]http://gyazo.com/1ccc30c5a8276962be8ac1bcef8e19c9.png[/img]

[MuivirT]

Old core i7's and previous gen gpu's.
Also the brands and more detailed specs are never mentioned in prebuilds, that can make a significant diffrence.

[DrBreen]

that's pretty good actually.. for a prebuilt obviously..

[Inconspicuous]

That's really good for a prebuilt.

[lahey]

Yeah looking up the parts individually, not going to be buying this

[Evilan]

[QUOTE=Inconspicuous;30782095]That's really good for a prebuilt.[/QUOTE]

You could get a cheaper pre built on a site like Cyberpower or possibly even Newegg. But you're always going to be better off building a pc yourself.

[Fate]

To be fair, some of Scan's and Yoyotech's prebuilts are pretty damn good.

[404 Not Found]

Don't ever buy Dell, also somehow including SMALLER harddrives and not including backup media, but including Dual-Channel RAM hikes up the price 80 euro, what the fuck?

8GB of RAM is overkill and chances are they'll ship it with some shit off-brand DIMMs, and as said before, Last-gen i7s, last-gen GPUs.

[bohb]

Dell usually uses Hynix or Nanya, both of which are decent as far as OEM memory goes. But they still screw you over on the prices and if one of the sticks dies, you have no way to RMA the memory if it's out of warranty.

[Fate]

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;30808796]Don't ever buy Dell, also somehow including SMALLER harddrives and not including backup media, but including Dual-Channel RAM hikes up the price 80 euro, what the fuck?

8GB of RAM is overkill and chances are they'll ship it with some shit off-brand DIMMs, and as said before, Last-gen i7s, last-gen GPUs.[/QUOTE]

and striped RAID :frog: