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The benchmarks on the Ryzen Threadripper and Zen 9 3rd gen cpus look great. I have been looking to find prebuilt gaming desktops that don't have issues with those chips. Newegg reviews show failures around their units and Amazon isn't much help either. Is this truly a build your own situation? Not necessarily issues with the CPUs but the overall quality of the build and bios issues/DOA status. Any recommendations for BYO or prebuilt options?


Build your own! Single components offer longer warranty(usually). You can research decent RAM, decent hard drives and so on.

Building a PC these days is trivial, back in the day there was a lot more fiddling with bios, now things are simplified and its mostly plug and play.

I actually might build a computer and make a detailed written guide, but I would love to help if you decide to go this route.


Honestly, anyone with the know how to build their own PC should. The savings are not only substantial (usually, unless you find some crazy black friday discount), you can actually spec it to what you actually need.

Pre-builts usually have an over-specced CPU and and under-specced GPU, a bad memory configuration, crappy hard drives, and horrible power supplies + motherboards.




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