ibuypower.com...good or bad?

[Admiral Kill]

I was looking at customer reviews of this site at cnet.com and the reviews seemed either incredibly negative or postive with none(literally) inbetween. The reviewers had no credibility because none of them had any other posting (the most i think was three...and that was one person). So I was wondering if any of you could help me out...please?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Well It's better to build your own, or atleast get something cheap/good from a store like I did and upgrade it just a bit for gaming standards. Which is not so freakin unbelievable as most people will claim it to be. It gets the job done! Just make sure you know what you're getting. If it's a gaming pc you're probably looking for, go for atleast 1-2 gb of ram (make sure the pc has enough ram slots, 4 is good), a pci-express slot (NOT pci, pci-express) for graphics card upgrades, a decent psu, which probably wont come with a store bought pc, but you can upgrade that yourself. Also make sure the cpu is good, right now you'd probably want an AMD 3800+ X2 (dual core) at minimum, anything higher would be great. A good graphics card for gaming of course, if you're buying right now, it would be best to get like a cheap dx9 card like a Nvidia 6800-7600, because dx10 cardswill come out like next year. Also make sure to get a satisfactory monitor!

 

[hungryduck]

Just build your own.....your better off in the end. Ibuypower ships with crummy PSU's and wiring and stuff.....

 

[Revisedsoul]

if your not comforatable with yourself building your own, sometimes you get get companies(like yours) and they will do it for you. or you can get a store bought and go like deathmaster, plus much easier(usually) with warrenty work because its through one company instead of several manufactures. also make sure that they do in house warrenty work, else i might be shipped furthur than you would like.

 

[Admiral Kill]

Well It's better to build your own, or atleast get something cheap/good from a store like I did and upgrade it just a bit for gaming standards. Which is not so freakin unbelievable as most people will claim it to be. It gets the job done! Just make sure you know what you're getting. If it's a gaming pc you're probably looking for, go for atleast 1-2 gb of ram (make sure the pc has enough ram slots, 4 is good), a pci-express slot (NOT pci, pci-express) for graphics card upgrades, a decent psu, which probably wont come with a store bought pc, but you can upgrade that yourself. Also make sure the cpu is good, right now you'd probably want an AMD 3800+ X2 (dual core) at minimum, anything higher would be great. A good graphics card for gaming of course, if you're buying right now, it would be best to get like a cheap dx9 card like a Nvidia 6800-7600, because dx10 cardswill come out like next year. Also make sure to get a satisfactory monitor!

thanks alot for the info

Ibuypower ships with crummy PSU's and wiring and stuff.....

or so i have heard...

 

[giant384]

Just build your own.....your better off in the end. Ibuypower ships with crummy PSU's and wiring and stuff.....

they allow you to choose your psu asfaik

 

[hungryduck]

http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA4NywxMCwsaGNvbnN1bWVy
read this article.
Ibuypower has the worst technical support.....they got a 1/10 from hardocp.com
Look elsewhere......try velocity micro.....or build your own.

 

[Russian Mafia]

I got my computer from Cyberpowerinc.com, and I'm satisfied... only had a few issues like my power supply dieing on the second week I got it and then my motherboard randomly combusting while tring to put in the new power supply...

 

[WhiteZero]

Reseller Ratings is your best friend when it comes to buying sutff online:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2001.html

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I got my computer from Cyberpowerinc.com, and I'm satisfied... only had a few issues like my power supply dieing on the second week I got it and then my motherboard randomly combusting while tring to put in the new power supply...

Try a few BIG problems :O

 

[Barney Fife]

Build your own or follow Deathmaster instruction or do what some us did and find a Geek Girlfriend.

But if you ask me, I would, 1000%, from the bottom of my underwear, advice you, Rather order you to build one. The education is a thrill, well spent time and the headache...Well.....Priceless.

Either way Good Luck. :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: