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Kerotan on 02 July 2017
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Captain_Yuri said:
Kerotan said:

My case says otherwise. I ended up getting a replacement pc worth around $1000 more that worked like a dream for years.  If I'd no warranty I'd agree with you.  

 

I also bought an alienware that I only use for work but it works now like it's brand new.  If I'd gone to the effort of building a pc under no warranty and it went fault I think I'd go nuts.  Must be the most frustrating thing ever,  especially when spending your hard earned cash. 

 

vivster said:

You seem to have an unhealthy fixation on money.

Both of you do know that you can get a) warranty for custom built pcs and b) the individual parts on a custom pcs already come with warranties right? And generally more than what the pre-builts give you.

For example, Ram almost 99% of the time comes with free lifetime warranty and GPUs usually come with 3/5/lifetime warranty, SSDs come with 3/5/10 year warranties and etc. If you get a pre-built, you are stuck with the standard 1 year warranty and usually pay more to get extended. Of course, if you spill coffee, the standard warranty on individual parts on the custom built won't cover something like that (Although some do) unless you get accidental damange warranty when you are buying custom built from the retailer.

Yeah surely he's under warranty although maybe it's more then 2 years old and not covered.  If something I pay big money for breaks though it always annoys me.  I bought a pair of astro a50 headphones a few months ago and recently they broke for no reason.  Just stopped working.  I can get them replaced but the inconvenience is annoying.