07-30-2012, 10:35 PM
It all boils down to what you're willing to pay for.
Origin is a PC boutique, you're paying a lot more then you really should, for shit you really don't need (namely, liquid cooling on anything but an OCed I7, imo).
My PC ran me about 1800$, all said and done. A comparable PC from them, I currently am up to 2300.. and that's not including the Keyboard and Mouse I purchased around the time of my PC upgrade.
If you're willing to put in the time/effort to research products, find deals, wait for deals, and assemble everything yourself, you're going to end up saving quite a bit of money.
I also know NOTHING about their warranty service, which is the only reason I'd ever not build a PC myself, but from what I can tell their default 1 year warranty is kind of bullshit. If I was going to get something from them, I'd likely read more about their warranty's.
Origin is a PC boutique, you're paying a lot more then you really should, for shit you really don't need (namely, liquid cooling on anything but an OCed I7, imo).
My PC ran me about 1800$, all said and done. A comparable PC from them, I currently am up to 2300.. and that's not including the Keyboard and Mouse I purchased around the time of my PC upgrade.
If you're willing to put in the time/effort to research products, find deals, wait for deals, and assemble everything yourself, you're going to end up saving quite a bit of money.
I also know NOTHING about their warranty service, which is the only reason I'd ever not build a PC myself, but from what I can tell their default 1 year warranty is kind of bullshit. If I was going to get something from them, I'd likely read more about their warranty's.
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