Buying the same parts at a lower cost does not mean that with the same amount of money you couldn't have gotten a better rig. If you only understand those pieces of hardware merely by other people's rating, rather than personal research on their benchmarks, it's extremely easy to spend more than you should. For example, you could have gotten an i7-920 instead of a 960 and easily clock it to very similar performance.GhoX

Remember, not everybody is interested in fiddling around with their PC to increase the performance.

you dont have to buy all 5 star components, you need to research and get the most from your money.....is this an I7 920 system ?dmb34

i7-960

I built a nice PC on CyberpowerPC.com with the grand total coming to $2,200 which includes shipping.

I chose the best rated items available by using Newegg.com as my guide. Every component was rated 5 eggs.

The total for the same components from Newegg came to just under $2,400 and I left out the cost of some minor items like keyboard, mouse, media reader, etc. that are included from Cyberpower.

I'm honeslty confused as to why so many people on here always say "build your own". It just doesn't make sense other than the sense of accomplishment you get by putting your own rig together.

Does a player playing on a top of the line PC have an advantage over a person playing on something a couple years old? I'm talking mostly about FPS games and wonder if the guy on the newer rig has an advantage when you both aim and start shooting.

I'm not going to build my own and after a lot of research came up with the following build from Cyber Power PC.

• CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-960 3.20 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
• HDD: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
• MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) Asus P6X58D Premium Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3 FCLGA1366 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 3 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X1, & 2 PCI
• MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (Corsair Dominator)
• SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
• VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB DDR5 16X PCIe Video Card

I don't like their options for a sound card so I'll add that later. Is there anything you would change? I know that Cyber Power has had some bad ratings but they also have a lot of good ones.

ibuypower.com and cyberpowerpc.com...............u can choose parts which u want inside your pc NLahren

I've read a lot of bad things about both of them. Have you bought from either one?

I'm in the market for a new PC and I'm wondering who you guys consider to be the best company? I'm looking for somethin the $1,500 - $1,750 range and would like the option to choose my own components.

Building my own is not something I'm interested in doing.

So who would give me the most bang for my buck?

I bought Call of Duty United Offensive the day it came out and I still play almost daily 5 years later.