For many PC gamers, one of the most exciting aspects of getting a new rig is putting it all together.<\/p>\n
However, another benefit that some may think would result from building your own PC is that you can save money.<\/p>\n
This would be because you are not paying a service fee for the PC store in question to build the rig on your behalf.<\/p>\n
Additionally, you would be able to choose to pay less for certain components and more for others, optimising their spend across their gaming PC’s various hardware needs.<\/p>\n
However, If you are willing to settle for the specific range of components available from a pre-built PC product, you can access great savings when compared to buying the components yourself.<\/p>\n
For example, MyBroadband compared the price of buying a pre-built PC from Evetech, to buying the same components individually.<\/p>\n
When it was unclear which specific component the pre-built computer used, we chose the cheapest option as the individual component in the comparison.<\/p>\n
Despite this, the results were clear – you can save a lot of money by buying a new computer using a pre-built PC option.<\/p>\n
The price of the pre-built PC in question<\/strong><\/a> is R25,499, and is the base option when using this pick-your-component PC builder. The price of the individual components is detailed in the table below.<\/p>\n This means that purchasing the pre-built version of this computer will save you R5,193<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There are not always savings to be found, however. We checked another popular South African PC store – Wootware – and found that their custom PCs use the exact same prices as if you had bought the components individually.<\/p>\n There is then an additional R579 charge for “PC Assembly, Stress-testing, and Windows Installation.” Note that the Windows 10 product itself is charged separately to this R579 service.<\/p>\n It is clear that those who seek to build a new PC should at the very least consider pre-built PC options before resolving to buy each component individually.<\/p>\n This is because, at least in some cases, it is more affordable to buy your PC using pre-built PC offerings than buying each component individually.<\/p>\n However, some may argue that even when the price of a pre-built PC is lower than the sum of its components, customers are limited in terms of the components available.<\/p>\n This is true – to a point.<\/p>\n If we use the same Evetech example, there are a variety of options in every component category except for the GPU – which in this case is limited to a GeForce RTX 2060 Super.<\/p>\n For example, the user can choose from eight RAM options – from 16GB DDR4 2,666MHz RAM all the way to Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 64GB Gaming RAM, albeit at an increased cost of R10,499.<\/p>\n Other important options such as adding a second storage device, optical drives, monitors, dedicated sound cards, and improved wireless adapters are all also available from Evetech.<\/p>\n A 2-year warranty is also included in the price of the pre-built PC.<\/p>\n You can get great savings buying a pre-built PC when compared with buying the components yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":308467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[23581,4854,35,41842,28388],"class_list":["post-371826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-evetech","tag-gaming-pc","tag-headline","tag-pre-built-pcs","tag-wootware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n \nPre-built PC from Evetech – Individual component price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Component<\/strong><\/td>\n Cost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n RGB Evetech TRIO RGB gaming case<\/td>\n R1,999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Antec VP650 80+<\/td>\n R999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Ryzen 7 3800XT<\/td>\n R8,099<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gamdias Chione M2-240R AIO liquid cooler<\/td>\n R1,699<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus Motherboard<\/td>\n R6,299<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 16GB DDR4 2,666MHz RAM<\/td>\n R1,299<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n GeForce RTX 2060 Super OC edition<\/td>\n R8,999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 512GB Ultra-fast SSD up to 550MB\/s+ speed<\/td>\n R1,299<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Integrated HD Sound Card<\/td>\n N\/A<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Integrated Gigabit Network<\/td>\n N\/A<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Total<\/strong><\/td>\n R30,692<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n Picking your components<\/h3>\n
Now read: PC market has best quarter in a decade<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"