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Item: [Gaming RDY ELIBG205] Intel i9 9900K, MSI Z390 Tomahawk Motherboard, GIGABYTE GAMING OC RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Video Card, XPG 16GB RGB (8GBx2) DDR4-3200 Memory, 1TB Western Digital SSD, RGB Liquid Cooler, Windows 10
Case: iBUYPOWER Element Front and Side Tempered Glass RGB Gaming Case
Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Processor (8x 3.60GHz/16MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling: iBUYPOWER 240mm Addressable RGB Liquid Cooling System - Black
Memory: XPG SPECTRIX D41 RGB 16 GB [8 GB x 2] DDR4-3200MHz - White
Video Card: GIGABYTE GAMING OC GeForce® RTX 2080 Ti - 11GB (VR-Ready)
Storage: 1 TB Western Digital Blue SSD
Motherboard: MSI MAG Z390 TOMAHAWK w/ RGB
Power Supply: 750 Watt RGB Power Supply - 80 PLUS Gold
Network Card: Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
Operating System: Windows 10 Home + Office 365 Trial [FREE 30 Day Trial]
Keyboard: iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: iBUYPOWER Gaming Optical Mouse
Warranty: 3 Year Standard Warranty Service
Subtotal: $2,549.00
Tax: $178.43
Ground Shipping: $0.00
Total Price: $2,727.43
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Good News: Overall the PC performs well (most of the failures were post-warranty period and/or not worth the effort/cost to utilize their warranty approach).
Bad News: I-Power cuts their costs by using their "in-house" peripherals and components wherever possible, which are cheap and/or have a short life span.
For example:
Mouse: Junk (Replaced with a Logitech unit).
Keyboard: Junk (Replaced with a Logitech unit).
Cooling System: Low quality, caused me many headaches because of an intermittent CPU cooling fan (finally tracked down problem and replaced with a good brand name Cooling System - that eliminated my overheating problems). (Also found that I-power install of heat transfer paste between cooling head and CPU was done poorly).
Just some info for You on my experience.
Gest to You and Yours.
Oops, make that Best, not Gest!
Thanks for your heads up and relating your experience. I wondered about that type of thing. There are few true bargains these days. Even so the same types of issues are often faced with name brand equipment. At least with a generic desktop it is not typically a problem to swap out parts later. And with name brand computers the BIOS/UEFI are typically severely limited which can be extremely frustrating.
I am a little suspicious of liquid coolers... it is not surprising to me that you ran into some difficulties with it after a while.
The name brand PCs are a hassle in many ways, but the parts do get added scrutiny. The problem is that some of the parts are very expensive to replace if you want to replace problem parts with the name brand originals. Apple is an absolute nightmare for people who want to fix their own computers and some of the other brands are not a lot better in that respect.