USGrant1962
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I returned a CyberPowerPC rig to Costco today and am planning my next build instead.
DS#1 moved out a few weeks ago to his first job after college. His laptop won't run higher end games, so I told him he could have my rig after I replaced it.
On Costco's website you can order PCs from a number of vendors. Last month they had a very good price on a high end gaming rig from CPCC. It was an I7-7700K cpu, GTX 1070 gpu, liquid cooling, NVME m.2 drive. The price seemed to be about $300 cheaper than you could order it direct from CyberPowerPC. I turns out to get the price down they cheaped out on the motherboard - so it did not support overclocking the K-version CPU (it was a B250 mobo instead of Z170 or Z270). The return at Costco was no problem
Instead I'm going to build something like this high end but bang-for-the-buck system.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6M6KtJ
The video card is a bit of a placeholder due to crazy pricing caused by bitcoin and etherium miners. I'll use it in a build I plan for my summer house next spring, assuming prices on higher end cards come down.
DS#1 moved out a few weeks ago to his first job after college. His laptop won't run higher end games, so I told him he could have my rig after I replaced it.
On Costco's website you can order PCs from a number of vendors. Last month they had a very good price on a high end gaming rig from CPCC. It was an I7-7700K cpu, GTX 1070 gpu, liquid cooling, NVME m.2 drive. The price seemed to be about $300 cheaper than you could order it direct from CyberPowerPC. I turns out to get the price down they cheaped out on the motherboard - so it did not support overclocking the K-version CPU (it was a B250 mobo instead of Z170 or Z270). The return at Costco was no problem
Instead I'm going to build something like this high end but bang-for-the-buck system.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6M6KtJ
The video card is a bit of a placeholder due to crazy pricing caused by bitcoin and etherium miners. I'll use it in a build I plan for my summer house next spring, assuming prices on higher end cards come down.
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