So ‘powerspec’ is actually microcenter. It’s their brand, so they make them. They probably go in and out of stock every few days. I’d just call and ask when that ‘model’ will be in stock, or they may even have an open box one available or they can pull one from another store to be available there

It comes with a great warranty and if anything ever happens you bring it back and they replace the issue there in store since ... it’s microcenter they have everything haha. I have a powerspec pc, different model and I had heating issues and brought it in and they replaced the motherboard and the gpu for free. Can’t beat a warranty like that. They cover everything, won’t get that building it yourself.

And I’m not home, but I don’t think you could build it cheaper than the one I posted. I could compare the parts to building it yourself later.



This post was edited by EmericAn on Apr 18 2018 02:07pm

Can you guys recommend one from Microcenter that isn't Ryzen? I think Intel would be better.

Is this okay?

http://www.microcenter.com/product/488548/Codex_XE-067US_Desktop_Computer

This post was edited by Whalefood on Apr 18 2018 09:41pm

A. If you are gonna buy from Microcenter which I recommend for that warranty, you gotta go with their pc's... the powerspecs
B. Ryzen are great processors. Many people have them here, and switched to Ryzen from Intel. The link I tossed you is the Ryzen 7 1700, its right up there with the other cpus on the market. Dont shy way from it

The only issue I have with AMD is their overheating. Won't the Ryzen 7 have overheating problems?

Pretty sure ryzen cpus are cooler than intel

Compared to Intel's latest, Ryzen doesn't even get warm.

Well there’s your answer

Ryzen CPU's have the heat spreader actually soldered to the chip, where as Intel uses a TIM that performs much worse in comparison. On top of that, the included stock coolers with Ryzen 5/7 are significantly better than Intel's.