9 hours ago, Maxis said:

What i will address is the person who said recipe for disaster. Unless you know the guy and his background in building PC's please do not judge. There are very highly competent guys and gals who both do these things as a hobby and for a living. 

Does this sound like the result, and here I quote, "highly competent" work to you?

On 2/14/2021 at 4:15 AM, Beanoutback said:

Then I found out the liquid cooling was having a few probs and the CPU was getting too hot and throwing out the odd occasional beep

I've bought custom-built PCs since about 2000. Never had a problem. And I always had the piece of mind that I could go back to the vendor with any problems, without too much fuss. Having a "friend of a friend" with unverifiable credentials build your PC is, IMHO, an example of being penny-wise but pound-foolish. 

To be perfectly honest a lot of enthusiast PC builders are actually more competent than the local kid hired by some box builder company to assemble their PCs, who are probably thinking about going clubbing tonight rather than doing a good job on your new pride and joy..

If you know the enthusiast builder and have seen their work their competence is not really a big issue.

HOWEVER ...  there is an issue with home built PCs.  The warranties are on the individual parts not the whole PC.  If you are unfortunate enough to have a compatibility issue between the parts chosen or an obscure fault arises that is hard to track down the vendors of the various parts nine times out of ten are likely to blame the other parts and deny theirs is causing any issues.  With a custom PC that has issues you can just send the entire thing back.

 

Edited February 15, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

5 hours ago, Ricardo41 said:

Does this sound like the result, and here I quote, "highly competent" work to you?

I've bought custom-built PCs since about 2000. Never had a problem. And I always had the piece of mind that I could go back to the vendor with any problems, without too much fuss. Having a "friend of a friend" with unverifiable credentials build your PC is, IMHO, an example of being penny-wise but pound-foolish. 

So you decide to trash the builder without finding the reason behind the issue at hand ? Did you ever consider that your custom pc isn't truly custom and basically a selection of what is contractually available from that system integrators supplier?  I see that again you are assuming who is competent and who isnt. Your argument cuts both ways by the way .. NZXT being the most recent public case of a SI wholly screwing up and shafting the customer.

Anyways your welcome to your opinion. Ill keep mine and hopefully the OP has a positive experience.

 

Edited February 15, 20215 yr by Maxis

No, my pcs are truly custom. It's bespoke all the way, I laser cut the components myself out of titanium granite, which I mine myself in the deep mountains of the Karpathians...I mean, come on, seriously. 

Here's my point: A "friend of a friend" slaps together your rig. Upon engaging the power button, your shiny new puter goes tits up. What options do you have? You certainly don't have the option to "send it back". Because there is no one to send it back to. 

Meanwhile, your "friend of a friend" starts troubleshooting, wondering which of the components went pear shaped. And on it goes. Sometimes, the solution is easy, sometimes not so much. 

As I've said before, I prefer the "peace of mind" (correction to above misspelling") of being able to pack up my pc and send it back.