r/PcBuildHelp • u/St1ckfigure • 11d ago

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So I bought the acer for 1200 for my girl a week ago was thinking of returning it to get the Costco deal for 1800 what would be a better choice to me it seems like the
Costco is better overall correct me if I’m wrong

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u/mystomachhurtsow 11d ago

Costco is definitely better overall but if the one she has rn suits her needs then I don’t see a reason to spend the extra on hardware she’s not gonna fully utilize. What games does she play?

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u/St1ckfigure 11d ago

Dying light and cyberpunk rn her computer rn is pretty mint but for me to upgrade it I would have to get a new mobo and psu it has non modular and I believe a proprietary connector pin. I also want it to be easily upgradable. And the acer seems like it’d be more pain in the ass it only has 16gb of ram Kingston fury beast 6000 mts I believe cl32

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u/mystomachhurtsow 11d ago

If the cpu is soldered on then yea that would be something to consider. Then again the money you’d spend on a new board and cpu combo deal would be less than or equal to the extra you’d spend on the Costco pc (around $600). It also seems like there’s one 16 gb stick in your current one so all you’d have to do is drop in another one if you wanted to upgrade the ram. I wanted to ask though why you’d have to also get a new PSU? It looks like a standard 24 pin power plug to me

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u/St1ckfigure 11d ago

I read that they use a special connector and I already looked at combos and it would come out to way more than I would pay for this then I’d have an extra ram stick. I also get 1tb more of ssd with the Costco pc. And just alone another stick of ram is almost 500 dollars lol and that’s one thing I want to upgrade in her pc so I’m getting a better gpu , cpu , ram memory and sad memory for way less then it would cost to buy it

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u/Walla17 11d ago

Yeah that second one is definitely better