Hi all,
hoping for a little piece of advice here. Kinda stuck at making a decision regarding whether to buy a pre-built rig (Tsukumo), build one by myself or get a PS5.
1) is custom-built that cheaper than a pre-built one ( relatively same spec)
– target specs : rtx3080, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, AMD Ryzen 7 75000x
– this is a pre-built offer by Tsukumo for 260k yen
– rtx3080 is out of stock now, can’t get it separately if I want to build by myself
2) what might be the biggest disadvantage of pre-built PCs? Possibly cheaper parts if it’s true what I heard?
3) what would be the advantage of PS5 except for its price of 60k?
-this morning I got an email that I was selected and PS5 is reserved for me until tomorrow’s evening (Amazon)
I have some games on my Steam, not transferable to PS account.
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That Tsukumo option is a good deal. Also, take a look at the pre built PCs from Lenovo. I got one last year and love it.
Since it’s impossible to get a lot of PC parts I would assume a pre-built one is good enough. I doubt they’ll make a system that can’t play games and expect to sell a lot of them. I was in the market of a PS5 but I would need to sell both my cars and my house to afford one. Plus there’s not enough games that interest me on the market to bother looking for a PS5 at retail price.
The advantage of a custom built rig over a pre built rig is that you can source the parts you want on the cheapest price using multiple stores. With a pre-built build you are basically beholden to the set prices of one store, but the build as a whole is covered by warranty and you can possibly buy extended warranty for a bit of moolah.
The PS5 is imo a fantastic machine with a lot of great titles on offer. With more and more PS5 exclusives finding their way onto the PC, there is less incentive to buy it, but honestly being able to play the PS4 + PS5 generation for me was the reason for why I bought it (I had a PS4 before and a load of games). There are exclusives that probably won’t find their way to PC, so it’s still a good deal for me (hello, Bloodborne).
just throwing this here without researching your pre-built target in much detail.
one of the biggest risks with pre-built PCs is the cost savings they achieve with components a lot of people don’t care about. this can include cooling, power supply, hard disk and/or SSD, sloppy cabling – the most extreme I saw was using superglue to hold cables together, wtf -, feature-light motherboards, or less popular GPU brands that are sometimes by design clocked down with overclocking disabled. (or on the opposite end, using a GPU one tier lower and overclocking it, then advertising it as the one tier higher GPU.) having “no-name brand” components in a PC will make driver management a serious PitA, especially if you need to reinstall or want to upgrade/change your OS.
the PSU alone is a pretty big deal to me, good quality power supply saved my rigs multiple times over the decades when the power went out.
I’m in the market for a new rig and I will probably build my own again, and not necessarily for cost efficiency reasons – 1. this way I know exactly what’s inside and 2. I simply enjoy building my own rig. with GPUs being so hard to find these days I’m well aware it’s going to be tough, though.
The biggest disadvantage of pre-built PC is that it’s WAY more expensive than a custom built one, and they always cheap out on the parts that people without hardware knowledge tend to ignore. The PSU that tsukumo is using on that rig is extremely cheap and unreliable, and a high quality PSU is the most important part of a PC if you don’t want issues in the future.
##NEVER
Buy a cheap PSU
Not to mention that the case they’re using is cheaply made, with not enough airflow. The brand of their SSD is not really reliable as well.
So, yeah, you’re paying more for less.
EDIT : picture of their offer
https://preview.redd.it/kfu6mjvnklda1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=27c5ec4cce3656abb0c14836cbb21145749a4caf
From tsukumo site, just searched some similar specs but not exact ones as I don’t know the details. these are not suggested parts to take and I didn’t check compatibility, just wanted to do a quick comparison:
ASUS ROG-STRIX-RTX3080-O10G-V2-GAMING RTX3080搭載 10GB
112,799
AMD Ryzen7 7700X + ASRock X670E Steel Legend セット
103,705
WDS200T2B0A ［2.5インチ内蔵SSD / 2TB
22,980
CT2K16G48C40U5 ［デスクトップ用 / DDR5 SDRAM（288pin） / 32GB(16GB × 2枚組)セット
17,970
==== total: 257,454.
but then you need case and psu.
but you could look elsewhere for cheaper parts or different brands and you might get better deal. it depends on you
May I know what’s your stance in keeping up to date with specs for gaming? It’s been a long time but I remember how tiring and costly it was for me at some point to keep my rig updated so I can enjoy my games better when there’s a new one out so I made a decision long ago to focus my gaming activities on console.
Your target PC price is about 4x the cost of a PS5. You still have to buy games. Games are available at affordable setup depending on how you consume them.