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I'm planning on building a PC my high school kids and wondered where's the best place to get all the parts....my last build I got everything from NewEgg (13 years ago). Is there a better place get all the parts?

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1 hour ago, InstrEd said:

If you're lucking enough to be by a Microcenter that would be a good place to go IMHO 😃

There's one, but it's 236 miles from here :(...

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I'm in the process of building a new PC. Everything has gone up in price in the span of the last 2 weeks. To buy everything for one PC I'm going to have to get the various parts from Newegg, Amazon, and Best Buy. eBay is a cheaper option, but the return process is horrible if you get a defective item.

The system I was going to build went up from $1130 to $1380 in just over two weeks. I had everything in my cart on Amazon for a while, all in stock. When I went to order everything this week the mobo, M.2 drive, and ram were out of stock from Amazon. My options were "Used like new" or to buy from independent sellers who are price gouging and have terrible return policies if something is received bad.

I'll wait to see what happens. My current CPU doesn't support Windows 11, so I have till October when they stop support for Windows 10. I'm building the system I always wanted and don't want to settle for something less, but I can wait.

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5 hours ago, Mesh said:

Is this a good case? image.thumb.png.bdb0d973ce05e0fbf4ed84f6d30550f0.png

Thermaltake makes good cases. One thing you have to research is, some of the cooling fans for cpu's are so large now, they won't fit in every case.

The fan for the build I'm doing now is so large that I was only able to find one case it would fit in. The other requirement was I had to have a 5.25" bay to put a Blueray/CD player/burner in and they are very rare now. There was only 1 case that was wide enough that had a 5.25" bay.

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5 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

Which CPU are you going with?

I'm not sure yet....Possibly when I go to Microcenter, I'll see if there are some good deals there. So far, I only got the Thermaltake Case (the one above).

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