To elaborate a little more, I am well aware that if I buy a custom PC from a boutique shop instead of building it myself I will be paying a decent amount more to cover labor and build costs. I've browsed around and looked at builds from Origin, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Xidax, and Maingear, to name a few. I've also looked at builds from pc part picker and Maximum PC for building one yourself. I am a PC gamer, though my last PC was a gaming laptop (I was in college back then) and it's now 5 years old and pretty much dead in the water. So my needs and wants have since changed.
Additionally, my dad is an IT professional and has been in the field for gosh, about 30 years now. So I've grown up around PCs and have a general knowledge about them, parts, and troubleshooting from osmosis. However, I've never built my own PC before, and my dad hasn't built any PCs since the 90's. If I build, I'm largely on my own, and I am admittedly leery and concerned about that. While building PCs has become easier it isn't an exact science, and stuff may just not work the way it is intended to, if at all. If you have a niche problem the internet will be less likely to have your answer. So I feel that paying more for the piece of mind that everything is considered, optimized, and configured to work correctly from the start is worth it to me, at least this time. I may build a PC myself in the future.
I have been watching news on general part upgrades, and this is obviously a big year for that. Again, I am going to wait until November so I can save up and get the best parts available from this entire year. I want to get an SLI setup, and I will at least be buying two 1080s. I think that Nvidia will make a 1080ti this fall, but that is pure personal speculation on my part right now. I've also been watching motherboards and CPU, and generally looking at what people rate highly on part lists and what people like.
What is the general consensus on hybrid hard drives? I know that they are basically high capacity SSDs and traditional drives, but do people like them? Are they really any good long term?
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