Best Windows PC 2023

[Solventinkjet]

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The day after I buy the new power supply without any research, LTT releases a video bashing this PSU, although it is a best seller.

Found out old PSU was dead on Sunday and had no choice but to grab something off the shelf at bestbuy 10 minutes before closing. I'm sure it'll be fine for a few years until motherboard capacitors start failing due to old age..

Temps are great despite the cooler being covered in 10 years of sticky dust.

No cable management here, new builds are way better cable management

Always consult Linus before buying! That's about what my cable management looks like too.

 

[JBurton]

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The day after I buy the new power supply without any research, LTT releases a video bashing this PSU, although it is a best seller.

Found out old PSU was dead on Sunday and had no choice but to grab something off the shelf at bestbuy 10 minutes before closing. I'm sure it'll be fine for a few years until motherboard capacitors start failing due to old age..

Temps are great despite the cooler being covered in 10 years of sticky dust.

No cable management here, new builds are way better cable management

Loose a stick of ram over the years too?
I'd show y'all the inside of mine, but it's got ssd's hanging all over the place...

 

[JBurton]

Always consult Linus before buying! That's about what my cable management looks like too.

Speaking of, he's always pushing these folks for custom builds. I wonder how their pricing falls inline with both signburst and off the shelf systems: https://www.originpc.com/

 

[victor bogdanov]

Speaking of, he's always pushing these folks for custom builds. I wonder how their pricing falls inline with both signburst and off the shelf systems: https://www.originpc.com/

It is pretty expensive, those LTT ads aren't cheap.

I think in their undercover purchase of prebuilt PCs, origin was decent overall with some issues they were willing to address. Still much better than dell/alienware and HP indian tech support trying to sell you 5 year warranty

 

[victor bogdanov]

Loose a stick of ram over the years too?

no i think just looks like that in the photo, I'll double check tomorrow lol. I did lose the side panel somehow

 

[Pauly]

no i think just looks like that in the photo, I'll double check tomorrow lol. I did lose the side panel somehow

i bet it's still there. the HD-D15 has a tendency to cover ram sticks.

 

[visual800]

Or just copy the specs of the "dell xps system" and build your self for a 25% savings plus getting a way better non proprietary motherboard, PSU, Case = more upgradable down the road

you sure could that. which with some people , me inlcuded would be a PITA and not worth it

 

[CanuckSigns]

I'm a fan of Dell systems for 1 reason,there is a sticker with a serial number on the PC, if you ever need to reinstall windows, you type that number into dells site and it let's you download the drivers for every component in that PC, it's saved me hours of time!

 

[JBurton]

I'm a fan of Dell systems for 1 reason,there is a sticker with a serial number on the PC, if you ever need to reinstall windows, you type that number into dells site and it let's you download the drivers for every component in that PC, it's saved me hours of time!

I miss the days of nlite and windows xp. I had several different installs with stuff pulled out and particular drivers baked in, so any time I screwed up my laptop, I could reinstall windows in about 45 minutes. Why did I have to reinstall windows more than once? Vista's MBR was the only part of that story I recall these days...

 

[Ringmaster Images]

And as far as future proofing, I tend to upgrade my system every 3 years or so. This seems to give a good balance between component cost and performance

Thanks for that Damon

 

[Ringmaster Images]

Thanks for all the info people will look up some of the Dell Precision and HP Z Series, and compare specs with someone to build also.

 

[Pauly]

I'm a fan of Dell systems for 1 reason,there is a sticker with a serial number on the PC, if you ever need to reinstall windows, you type that number into dells site and it let's you download the drivers for every component in that PC, it's saved me hours of time!

Me too. Dell is great for this.

Thanks for all the info people will look up some of the Dell Precision and HP Z Series, and compare specs with someone to build also.

there's not much to compare. they all usually have the same spec. different brand. ..

you buy them in any config you want.
You want a Xeon, you get a Xeon. You want a Intel Core, thats what you get.
You want 16, 32, 64 gb ram? you choose how much.
etc...

 

[victor bogdanov]

I'm a fan of Dell systems for 1 reason,there is a sticker with a serial number on the PC, if you ever need to reinstall windows, you type that number into dells site and it let's you download the drivers for every component in that PC, it's saved me hours of time!The

WIth a DIY build all you have to do is go to the motherboard manufacturer website and download the chipset driver, Then the video card driver.

But now everything will work fine with windows generic drivers even if you don't go download all the drivers, windows has gotten really good at finding drivers