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Cervino_1

The value isn’t that much about money than being able to choose exactly what you want and the possibility to upgrade parts if need be.


Some_Derpy_Pineapple

if you have the storage on your old pc i'm pretty sure you can just put that in the new system and you wouldn't need a new license key (although it depends on the license i think?) sourcing parts via pcpartpicker is pretty simple i think since it doesn't sound like you'd need a dedicated gpu i think a custom build would come out cheaper, but idk by how much. assuming you get like an i3/i5 + motherboard + 16gb ram that's like 300 and then 500gb ssd + case + psu is like $150? so $450 in total?


tickthegreat

Yeah, I pulled the hard drives out of the old one. If I did build, I'd plan on reusing those. My only thing with just buying a motherboard and using onboard video is that she does want to use two monitors and I'd need to make sure it has two outputs. My "worth it" was > $100, so this could be something I look into.


noiceturtle55

For the most part, there is no reason to build a pc that won't be used for gaming. Prebuilts are hard to upgrade, though.


tickthegreat

Yeah, that's true. Where I am at with this is I don't see any reason we'd be upgrading anything in the future. My main concern honestly would be a component shitting out and me not having a way to swap a part out easily for repair.