THIS is why you don't buy a Computer from Best Buy
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So this is a $500 Budget Build Video in disguise.
Now obviously, this computer build will require a little bit of deal hunting on your part. Not everything I show here is something you NEED, but parts like it or even the part itself is easy enough to find secondhand on any of the resources I have below.
Resources for Deal Hunting:
/r/buildapcsales
/r/hardwareswap
OfferUp
LetGo
Craigslist
However, for those of you that are not so patient, I have a part list here to the parts used in the video:
Ryzen 5 2600 Processor:
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AMD Wraith CPU Cooler:
Comes with link above
CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MH RAM:
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GIGABYTE X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING:
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MSI Graphic Cards RX 580 Armor 8G OC Graphics Card:
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Cooler Master H500P Case:
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Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD:
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Corsair CX550w 80+ Bronze Power Supply:
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You won't reply to this comment with your most embarrassing moment. No balls.
KristoferYee i was born
IM A TRAP
I get hard sometimes just looking at bread
I came out of the gym in middle school once and didn't notice i tucked my shirt into my underwear
I bent pins on my new ryzen 5 2600
8:15
"1TB isn't necessary for gaming"
Tell that to my steam library
@@marcgallant5270 i need like 4tb
To download my whole steam library it’s probably close to 1tb but only downloading the game I play is like 200gb
Scooby The Dooby Or porn stash! 😂
2tb hdd, 1tb ssd ggez
I have 4 terabytes SSD filed up....rip
your buying used pc parts like crack on the street
gasdorfic muncher LOL
😂😂😂
Lol
lmfao
Your?
i work at best buy. there are bad salesmen but there are good ones too. none of the salesmen get commission, so usually when they recommend they recommend something its because they believe in that product. but yeah there are some salesmen that dont know what theyre talking about
It's not bad as he says, kinda exaggerated but yep the bad sales rep can be something that can ruin the mood.
Some of the salesmen might be honest. I can give them that, but if they truly believe in their prebuilt products, then they're incompetent, or in the best case scenario, uninformed.
Greg Jones we don’t necessarily believe in them... but it’s a good way for some younger kids to get an upgradeable or workable PC without the worry of breaking it. That’s only reason I would sell it to anyone.
How are they not paid on commission, I’ve been majorly ripped off 3 times at Best Buy. I’m done with that shitty place
@ Robert Compere, You forgot something: '
"The IO shield. Better known as the brace..."
I died
Lmao
You think they used a Swiss Army knife that hopefully has a screwdriver to build it
The Verge of death
You are on the wrong video my dude lmao
@@wr6793 13:47
I work at Best Buy in computers and I feel personally attacked.
Lol
Lol
Lol
Lol
You're lucky he didn't go in your store and film you then.
CS GO CAN LITERALLY RUN ON A TACO, WHY DO PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME WHEN DISPLAYING PERFORMANCE *edit* csgo min requirements
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
ASUS P5Q Motherboard
2GB DDR2
AMD (ATI) HD 2600 XT 256MB Graphics Card
Windows 7 Pro
Because 300FPS for the LOLZ
my 700 dollar system can only run it at 80fps
Sodical that’s a cpu problem not a gc’s problem
To give a referance of performance also cuss it is a really popular game
i play csgo on my microwave
"the IO shield, better knows as a BRACE"
Remembering TheVerge PC build video hahaha
Lmao so good this dude will never be forgotten
I’m scared someone new to pc gaming is going to take his joke seriously and start calling it a brace
And the psu is a brick lol
@@K16-j7g and don't forget to drop in a shit ton of thermal paste like a 5 yr old
Lmao
I didnt know that there was such a big underground market for computer parts
I might stop selling weed and amphetamines and get in on this.
I can’t tell if you are joking
who cares if this is a joke? hes telling the truth otherwise... but m8 dont forget that when you are sellin you smokin for free, that will change once you change your side hustle😂😂😂
omg i was at best buy and i witnessed a grandma getting her grandson a gaming pc and the employee kept smacking the computer and kept saying top of the line and good graphics i was dead i felt bad though
wait wgat state and what did the grandma look like
I got scammed off a monitor they told me it was a 144hz but it was 60hz
What the computer good though? Or was it a obvious bad deal?
@@legend8202 it was a typical best buy piece of crap
@@JNR405 you should've checked the box
This one Best Buy employee recommended me a $200 gaming motherboard for my budget office build
He works off commission?
200$ is too much even for a gaming motherboard
@@dinoalis496 no its not
@@dinoalis496 it's not if it has wifi
Razor nah I used to work there, no commission
No ssd slot?
Nothing flex tape can't fix
lol
Lmfao
Why just the SSD slot? Let's make a computer out of Flex Tape.
Petition for flex tape to make double sided flex tape
TRUE
The only thing that should be purchased “pre built” are laptops.
Looking at the title knowing damn well I’m buying a pc on Best Buy
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Why though he literally just shit on Best Buy 😂
lol just know what your buying and you're good, exactly what he says. they overprice stuff that isnt as good as its worth. If you can get sales, then you're pretty much fine
So true
It's not that the stuff isn't good. It's just that you can often get better value for your money sourcing the parts. And it doesn't have to be from craigslist where you meet people like in this video. Just shop around online: Amazon, Ebay, Newegg etc. You also gain very helpful hardware knowledge. RUclips is also an excellent source for tips, how-tos and reviews.
Intel fanboys: "OMG HOW DARE YOU COMPARE RYZEN 5 2600 TO AN I7 REEEEEEEEE"
The dont use k versions of i7. They use 8700 which is 6 cores @ 3.2ghz The 2600 is also 6 cores but clocked at 3400, and easiky oc to 4.2 GHz. Finally it has 4 more mb cache. The benchmark scores are 14000 on the i7 and 13500 on the r5. So overall pretty similar. The r5 is also half the price of an i7 and includes an amazing wraith fan which no one can argue is way better than intel stock fan. I would consider it a pretty fair performance comparison but unfair to intel as far as value
Pierce Callahan I don't think you read the first two words.
Ryzen has more cores
Pierce Callahan r/whoosh
Pierce Callahan tbf I’ve seen 9700k’s for like 10 bucks more then 8700k’s and it’s an extra 2 cores
Kristofer, as a Best Buy employee, I can tell you we don’t make money on our computers. We sell them at cost, and they expect us as sales reps to attach things to make us money. Our employee discount is 5% above cost, but on computers and name brands we get no discount because there is no profit to take from.
I agree completely with your analysis of the types of parts the manufacturers use, and I tell my customers the same things. I encourage them to purchase components instead, and make sure to pricematch with the cheapest price I can find.
While I love your videos and I’m happy to support this channel, I think that if you’re going to focus a video or an idea around a specific retailer or business, you should ask someone like me, or find a reliable source from the business itself rather than making assumptions standing on the outside. I don’t mean this as a tear down, simply a suggestion for a better approach in the future.
I like this channel and I like this guy's videos, but he really took one guy and made a brusque stereotype out of the experience.
The Best Buy in my town has a few people who I have talked to who know some things about pc gaming but there is only one so far that I have met who absolutely knows his information. I generally do my research at home and then just go and but the parts at Best Buy if the price is good
Luke DeVol So I'm buying PC parts (alot) very soon, and I have no idea how to build a pc, do you reccomend hiring someone to build it for me? Or should I watch some youtube vids and try to teach myself?
@@Atxmic1 I've built, fixed, maintained, upgraded or otherwise cannibalized several desktops and quite a few laptops, and all of my "theoretical" knowledge came from RUclips tutorials.
A few recommended channels:
*Bitwit
*YEStechloving
*CoreyHolzman
*Jayztwocents
Hey, as a Geek Squad employee, would you kindly tell your fellow associates to stop selling PCs with S-mode on them and then telling them we can remote into them? That would be great.
"This is good for streaming and gaming." *Only plays csgo and apex*
Basically a waste of money if you spending over $500 to run those games lol
Apex is very fast pace and requires high fps...
I'll take my 2070 Super and 240Hz BenQ Zowie to play 200+ frames of fast paced Apex any day. Worth every penny.
Me💀
The one I got for 600usd plus some
upgrades could play vr, vr chat on high, fortnite on high, csgo on high, battlefield V on high, rainbow six siege on high and many more. You just gotta do some research and pick the right computer and get the best upgrades for that computer.
I will say as a best buy employee in the computer department we are way more knowledgeable then how you made it seem in this video. I agree there are some employees that don't know as much about the products here. I might just be lucky and have amazing co workers but almost all of us are pc gamers and have built our own PCs. As far as the computer in the video I couldn't agree more the parts used are very cheep but there are much better options than the HP.
Especially at the same price point, there are stuff 100$ more that are way nicer, and that’s not even that much more of an investment into a pc, the HP computers were hot garbage, they sold out at my store and we didn’t even restock them.
agreed
Same
I was with my parents at best buy and they know I want a PC, so they embarrassingly asked questions about PCs to the employees who seemed like they knew what they were doing. They said the minimum price for a PC would be $1600 and for a good one you would need $2000.
Same. And the stores don’t dictate the price of the PC. Go on HP’s site an you will find them selling that same PC for the same price.
I’m watching this on a computer I bought in Best Buy.
How ya like Ya bootleg PC lol jk
lol same.. mine works fine don't know the issues
Same. I bought ibuypower, no issues, great specs. I also build my own.
cbctech 2 lol I have ibuypower and have no issues
SAME
I bought one from there and the guy was completely honest and he probably knew more than me he told me which pc I should get in my price range and which were bad like Alienware and how you could not customize them as easily
Props to him for being the only youtubers who doesn't illegally Film on a store
"Don't buy a PC from Best Buy. Buy parts from my Amazon affiliate links."
I wouldn't recommend that either tbh lol
KristoferYee could i buy a Digital storm PC are they good
@@jayllliiilll6287 wouldn't recommend a prebuild I'd build it myself the companies mostly upcharge a lot of money and if you have no choice I'd recommend BLD by NZXT.
@@christechguy Even then NZXT upcharges like hell. Youd be better off asking friends/finding someone local, some people build it for you free as it's their hobby.
Jays2 Good check Craigslist, and facebook marketplace. There are people that build them for people and only add on like 50 bucks, depending on the rig they build. I make posts to build computers for others all the time
13:48 Damn you still hating on the Verge PC build tutorial.
It will always have a special place in our hearts.
😂 I thought I was the only one who realized
Sentinel DJ faxts
i legit watch it every once in a while because it is just so hilarious with the one that has all the youtubers reactions 🤣
@@NotRyan96 The one from Bitwit was the best. Lyle was hilarious.
"Gooder" - A term used by PC experts to explain if something is good or not (plural) 2:48
“Oh me. I use Microsoft Edge...”
“Bleghhhh!...”
opera gang
New edge that's based on Chromium is actually decent, and uses less system resources than Chrome.
i use microsoft edge for them points lol
@@narwhal4304 I’m offended as a long time Chrome user
@@narwhal4304 By far. Around December my increasingly slow 2015 MacBook Air was almost coming to a halt. I called Apple, was turning off applications, nothing. It became almost unusable. Fans blasting non stop and slow af. Then I leaned about Edge and uninstalled Chrome. No more fans blasting, only occasionally and for very brief periods of time. Now I am loving my laptop again.
Bought a computer from Best Buy then saw this video LMAOOOOO
Layla OneShot if you bought a ibuypower pc then you are good
My sons Asus G11CD has lasted him 2 years so far (which I bought from best buy), Going for a ryzen 3rd gen build next year for him, and the G11CD will be his little brothers.
anime scythe just build you’ll either save or for the same price get way better price.
Now you gotta take it back 😂😂😂
@@RyanVier ever consider buying the parts and having a relative or friend put it together for you if you dont want to go through the trouble of figuring it out yourself? Will save you a lot of money or you could potentially get better parts for the same price as the prebuilt, I've installed parts myself before but when it comes to more advanced things like liquid cooling , I end up phoning a friend to help me and then I can watch them and Its fun to watch them because than you learn something new too. Try it out and I'm sure you wont regret it.
I had too experience this myself. I worked my ass off all summer so I could get a pc from Best Buy. But when I came to pick it up they said “we shipped the wrong one”. So they decided to overnight it. But I wouldn’t get it until two weeks later. So we decided to go with that option and overnight it. So later that day I saw a the same pc for cheaper and it would be at my house by the Friday of the same week. And we bought it and canceled the Order from
Best Buy. And we got the pc and I enjoyed it. But I looked at the box and realized. This is the same box and at the Best Buy. That they said wasn’t mine. Then Best Buy said
I had the pc and disputed the dispute that my mom put. And we had to fight the charge for a month. That was the last time I ever bought from Best Buy.
Best buy, shows him a computer with. 1080ti and i9
Kristopher: Not worth over 300
I've gone to best buy to pick up stuff off their open box rack before, just keyboards, mice, stuff like that, and I browse while I'm there. Best thing is when someone comes in, usually an older person and they are asking an employee about how they need a new desktop computer and the employee tries to sell them on an i7 8700 machine with a GTX 1070ti in it (I think it was an IBP machine even) for $1300. The employee was trying to sell it as a this will do anything you need it to which is why you need it so the customer was asking if they had anything at a cheaper price and before the employee could answer I pointed out some of their HP and Dells with i5's and integrated graphics saying that those should do the job if they don't plan on doing anything too intensive on their computer and the customer usually asks me if those can handle either skyping their grandchildren or checking their email or using microsoft word and I'm just like yeah those would be more than enough all the while the employee is just glaring at me. This has happened multiple times and honestly I'm surprised that an employee hasn't tried to kick me out.
Pyr0 it be like that glad you helped someone who had no clue and needed to rely on the employees
@@pyr0399 Employees can't kick people out. A manager could but they wouldn't do that if you're merely helping another customer. We don't up-sell to people at my store unless they're greatly underestimating what they need. We only up-sell when you come in with a Gucci scarf, carrying your Louis bag, after just hopping out of your Ferrari - in that case we will make sure you buy the absolute most expensive thing we have lol
true
Pyr0 r/thathappened
Yeah well I bought a trash one pre built for my first pc and I’m just waiting for tech source to give me a setup makeover.
😂 super funny 😂
Not gonna happen...
Loo
pain
Good luck lol here is your 4 leaf clover 🍀
DID HE JUST SAY GOODER!?!?!?!
2:45
ClazzyMK I know 😂😂😂
r/woosh
dfectedRO this isn’t a r woosh my boy
Lael Hansen Toe Sucker yes it he was saying Gooder as a joke since he has simplifying what duel channel does
Love the name btw 😂
Sas Hunter it’s not a r whoosh because we aren’t on Reddit... ty btw 😀
1:28 ftw! lol. As a former Best Buy (specifically Geek Squad) employee....i hated the clueless PC department employees. Though there were some good ones. My store was above average, especially us Geek Squad guys. Some of the best technicians i know (BitcoinLouie and Homebrewedhero were my fellow coworkers as well). Every store varies but man...some stores were baaaaaad.
edit: oooh dat HardwareUnboxed music. Also, congrats on getting that GPU working ;)
Coalition Gaming Now i am scared cuz im gonna buy an asus rog gaming pc from bestbuy...
@@sarkisseraydarian6467 and what's the problem?
Coalition Gaming cuz he is saying best buy is bad
@@sarkisseraydarian6467 Its not bad if the price is right for the computer is ultimately what the message is. Most of the time for prebuilts ANYWHERE, the price isn't right though (or rather, you can build for cheaper). However i think bestbuy had/has a Cyberpower Ryzen system with RX 580s and i think 16gb ram for like $600ish, and that was a good price.
I worked in inventory(and did the worked the front desk with the cameras watching for thieves) for BB a while back, and while setting up a display for ink I noticed a guy trying to get what he needed for a streaming PC for his kid. After realizing that nobody was really helping him I went and talked to him for a bit asking questions about what sorta idea he figured he would need and then explained to him what all the parts do. I ended up selling him some basic equipment(webcam, mouse and keyboard etc) but talked him into trying to buy all the parts for the actual PC online and building it with his son as a father son thing. He came back a month later thanking me. I quit 6 months later after they me and some others realized they lied to us about a bonus we were spose to get for keeping Shrink down in the store.
13:50 I love this verge PC Build reference
As you stated, the greatest concern with buying used hardware is the dice roll. That's why I have always been reluctant. However, with regard to Best Buy, for the general PC user that doesn't know how to build, the units are fine. They just need to keep Geek Squad protection. Now when it comes to folks like us that are "Build Veterans;" never - we know the difference.
I bought my pc at Best Buy and the guy was actually pretty good with pc and tech stuff and i got a real nice one
same
*then you wake up from dream*
The only time I buy a part from best buy, is if I need it that day. I do so knowing im overpaying.
I got the GMA3200BST
XclusivePower I got an i7 6700 and a gtx 1060 with 16gb of ram for like 850 and this was two years ago and unlike the video I actually got a good 1060 dual fans 6gb. I have now replaced just about all of the parts but
**Run gooder**
I think my life is completed.
I was looking for this exact comment 😆
@@giaminh4778 same lmao
the second time I heard that word again. The first time I heard from my voice=))
What’s happened to “better”?
Gia Minh we all were
You see... I’m from New York where you get scammed for toaster parts when you tried to get a graphics card.
Krostofer in other videos: I never had any solid friends because I used to be considered too feminine and called gay
Also kristofer: 20 dollars is 20 dollars
😂
0:00 WtF is that gandalf doing back there?
Spends extra $30 on RGB fans.
Spends no extra $30 for new power supply instead.
ok but he really isint supposed to buy a 30 dollar fan if the fan that is with the pc case he bought works...
That was the cleanest and best cable management I have ever seen. VERY cool
honestly. I want kris to do a cable management video. i legit couldn't get such clean cable management if my life depended on it
did he install every single fan as an intake fan or am i trippin? 🤔
Noticed that too
That is correct
And the ssd is sitting on top of a hot electromagnet. But its got rgb baby.
Damn... How could he do something like that... damn...
Yeah I stop watching after that
"This video is unavailable on this device"
Sorry?
Lmao
I don’t know, the Best Buy employees are actually pretty nice and knowledgeable
Thanos’s Fingers LOL no. I live in Seattle and even here they don’t know jack shit. Didn’t even know what the difference between a 980 and a 2080ti was.
Tourettes Tyler You’ll find sales people with a variety of backgrounds.
Having worked there, some have little to no backgrounds in computing, some are enthusiasts, others are college students, some even have had other jobs in IT/CS and are looking to make a little extra.
It’s kind of a mixed bag. Some stores are better at finding the right people for the right department and training too, IMO.
There is some training, but it is pretty basic.
@@RyanKarolak I was thinking how tf ur verified then I realised your channel is 13 years old gosh dang
Ryan Karolak, how did u get the verification badge?
@@Bakamoli his channel is 14 yrs old, you could get verified at like 100 subs a long time ago
“IO Shield, better known as the brace” lmao
2:48 My man said gooder instead of better
Master Osh he said he was putting it in simple terms. That’s why he said it like that. Nobody is actually that stupid
Trae Smith okay. Thank u for ur feedback
Trae Smith
Lol trust me people are that stupid, someone in my class used the word “more-er” lmao
@@huey1153 search it up in the dictionary, its a real word...youre the stupid one
I found your channel like a month ago and it inspired me to build my own pc and I got it for cheap and it runs games amazingly
Why would people think that Best Buy would have good pc's?
It's like buying from Walmart people!!
sσηsүωнαlε never buddy, never
sσηsүωнαlε
Built it for $470.
Walmart has pretty good deals. The skytech gaming shadow is pretty great for the price.
Cause they do have good PCs
vr ready hard drive
This reminds me of that one time I asked my friend
Me. “What cpu do you have?”
Friend: “i7”
Me: “Which i7?”
Friend: “Intel Core i7 Inside.”
i asked a friend once what cpu he had. he said this:
8x
i said yes, but whats behind that
he said amd
i said alright but read the full line
he said ok, 8x amd ryzen 5
so i said ok, but there should be more,
took 20m explaining i cannot get his ip by knowing his cpu
When I went to Best Buy the guy has been playing pc for awhile and actually built his and set me up with a good starting pc. But good video
Damnn good for uuu maa mann
Bruh I went to Best Buy one day and the worker suggested that exact pc when I said I only played like 3 games 💀💀
4:46
"Im assuming you've built computers before?
"Yeah, Ive built some before"
"Some" xD
He don't need to know who I am
@@KristoferYee true 😁
250gb is not enough for a streaming and gaming pc. You'd have to be braindead or a runescape streamer to think so. Anyone that plays more than 5 games will definitely need minimum 500gb and 1tb is usually the preferred minimum. Im personally getting a 1tb ssd and a 5tb hd.
I have 31TB. Most of it dedicated to movies! Also i9-9900K.
I had no knowledge about computers like five years ago and they said a computer could "run any game"after I figured out how computers run there wasn't even a graphics card in it
What are you talking about? Intel Integrated Graphics are like 100 times better than the titan rtx
Only if this was twitch oh we need emotes 😂
@@leeroyjenkins4561 ummmmmmmm....... you rlly dont understand at all do you..... a gpu it always 10000000x better than just integrated graphics....
Die Heart Gaming - woooosh
You are a man of Culture Kristopher. Love ur Wallpaper Engine Wallpapers
Love the performance test being recorded externally from the monitor view! Other tech channels need to take note. It gives us an actual representation of performance without needing to weigh in on how much the recording software is hurting the PC. Let's us also see the games smoothly in its real form with eyes on screen!
i used to work for geeksquad, and when a sales rep would send over clients to ask about the computer they wanted to buy and its just 45 minutes of me telling thme that everything the rep told them is a lie, now im an independent pc repair consultant. i do not miss that place
Why do you wear glasses if you never look through them??!!
Cuz he's cool
Weird flex but ok
Hes probably farsighted wich means he can see stuff from far clear but up,close its blurry
Terence Lee You mean farsided
I'm tryna be sexy
As a Staples employee who works in tech sales, I want to explain a few things to you from an inside perspective.
First I want to address price, you said that was not a knock on HP, and you blame Best Buy for pricing it. From my time working at Staples, I know that we sell our computers at very nearly the same price manufacturers sell them to us at, this is why we hound you for additional items. A PC purchased by itself is considered a failure, and if you have a sales manager like I do, that means getting yelled at and belittled (I am not playing pity, I really don't care if a 40 year old man who can only hold down a retail job doesn't respect me, the feeling is mutual), and we are expected to sell $250 worth of product to compensate this "loss" in profit. I believe that this is the same story at Best Buy, since their computers are for the most part the same price as ours.
The other issue you had was with the information, or lack there of that the employee had to provide you with the computer, there are a few reasons I see for this. First of all, the employee likely wasn't very interested in tech, and just applied for whatever job he could get. I know that is no excuse, but it is very likely the case. More importantly, the store, again, this is from my Staples experience, not Best Buy, but at Staples, I am NOT trained on the products I'm expected to sell. I heard through the grape vine external resources I can use to learn, and I do research several things on my own out of enthusiasm, but that research is in spectres and omens, not the pavilians we sell. Pretty much everything I learn at work is from that slip of paper, and if I ask my boss what I need to know, he says "either look at the info tag or pull out your phone and google it" which is extremely professional behavior at work I'm sure you can imagine, pull out your phone and google it lol. I do have one advantage over Best Buy however, that info tag lists the specific processor model. It does not however tell you anything about the motherboard, anything more than the amount of ram, anything about the model of hard drive, but it's probably a WD blue. We know the generation and specific model of processor and that's about it.
You also didn't say anything about it, but it seemed suspect that the employee just listed a name brand that's popular without any real thought. This could be either because, again, poor training, or it could be that he's pressured to pus that specific product.
So in short, blame the store for poorly training the employee, but don't blame the store for pricing the computer.
Thanks for saying everything I thought. This video kind of pissed me off a bit
I watched some other videos by this dude and he seems very pretentious and arrogant in every one
Yeah, it would've been much more helpful if best buy had given more info about the entire specs from PSU to GPU (or in any order). And have the info cards on the PC display get more info as well being simple enough for the customers to understand the difference between gens and bins of the CPU and GPUs. And other specs as well. Then have enough knowledge to explain the difference and the performance between the said gens and bins.
That way, you can let the info cards do the talking (most of the time).
Correct, big ticket items are sold to little to no mark-up. Money is made by suggesting the customer to get TTS (total tech support) and accessories for their purchase. And not entirely sure why some are saying that the ram speeds or chipset aren't specified. One look at core blue and it tells us all that, except for the type of mobo or psu brand type of thing. This could of been a far better video I believe if he did a little bit or research, just going to the Best buy subreddit and asking would of given him so much information from past and current employees about the points he made with using one personal experience as reference
@@beepbeeprichie2545 Then he wouldn't be able to sound like a pompous asshat for his content!
Beep Beep Richie printers are sold the same way. The actual printer is sold at a loss knowing full well you will come back and spend more money on the heavily marked up ink cartridges.
You’re talking about the HP Omen. It was recalled from Best Buy for a little bit for its thermal issues as well. Only worth it during Black Friday ($850)
Tez I got an hp omen (1070, i7-7700) and it’s been working good. Kinda sad I paid $1000 but I was desperate lol
Tez I got an hp omen (1070, i7-7700) and it’s been working good. Kinda sad I paid $1000 but I was desperate lol
Miike tbh it’s not that bad of a deal although to my knowledge name brands like HP, Dell/Alienware, and even Lenovo cheap out on their parts a lot. Going with iBuyPower or CyberPower that use actual PC parts that you’d pick up as a prebuilt is more effective. This is for the sake of being able to open up your computer and eventually upgrade it. I think your PC is fine with the price you paid; however take a look into building/upgrading :).
PS: the HP Omen I was talking about was the 1060 variant and it was a large scale manufacture defect. Your PC is not affected
Tez haha yeah- the cable management is 🤮
Miike the problem is they spend shit on everything other than gpu and cpu psu probably a 550 bronze unit at best
This makes me very happy. I’m just building my first pc now, and I bought everything new and it costs about 800, and I had the exact same graphics card and ryzen 3600 and the same amount of ram, so i feel like I did it right. Even though he got the used stuff for less, I’m happy to know I bought the right parts and they’re generally good deals even new.
Oh come one. Do you understand how retail works? Do you ever go out to eat? fast food, dinning in? Markup. Same concept. Also, you ran into a bad employee or someone new, or he just knew you weren't serious by the way you immediately came off as. They do exist everywhere. I used to work at Best Buy, I wasn't fat, I wasn't trashy looking, and I had pride in my job. Instead of being condescending, greet in a friendly and cooperative way, that makes all the difference. Asking computer spec knowledge to try to school me right off the bat was absolutely the most annoying thing a knowledgeable customer can do. I even had a 20 year old immediately trying that some tactic you did looking like he was audio recording me too, and answered every question, even told me things he didn't even know about hardware and things I thought were generally basic things an intelligent tech person would know. He put his phone away halfway through. The processor type is generally on the tag, the price? On the tag. RAM on the tag. There are 1,000s of tags in that department. You're like an English teacher with the expectation that you should be able to recite ever Shakespeare play or force someone to give an unprepared presentation and can't use a slideshow. Nothing more annoying..... Check this out. If you were polite, nice, and friendly, I had the ability to give discounts on other necessary parts and software like Office, Photoshop, monitors, memory, etc. I'd just say "the tag was wrong" for them. I would love to help out someone that worked with me and not want to challenge a stranger's knowledge. It's not about the hardware knowledge of every single computer. I sold on getting to know you first. Narrow down the store first, then go from there. Work with the employees, not against them.
Trust me, I know markup. Actual computers bought by Best Buy by the vendors aren't making Best Buy the Gross margin. The actual hardware pieces you are buying are actually more marked up. I used to get a discount on the markup. Hardware was discounted like the graphics cards, but we got nothing off for computers. When you buy the entire setup, you are paying for the finished good which skips the WIP step. Even though it is cheaper to build, a lot of people actually value time over the effort so they pay for the raw materials and WIP they don't need to worry about. The only reason I decided to build my own computer is because of my budget savvy hobby willingness to devote time for saving. So you are actually using your time and giving a company a better gross margin in return.
jha123salt hell yeah dude you said the words I couldn’t find to say to this video. Previous Best Buy employee here 🖐
Thank you so much for saying this. Completely agree
6 likes , wasted Time i Think.
jesus christ you wrote an essay
Yo I was going to buy that PC you talked about at the beginning, thank you !!
The IO Shield, better known as a "brace"
*Me looking at the same exact same Owen hes describing*
"Its okay buddy your just "sPeCiAl"
I like the fact that nobody talks about the fact that Gandalf is on the left monitor at 16:21
AT the start I thought he want to say "This Video is sponsored by Bestbuy" lol
I've been on your channel since 12k subscribers, nice to see you channel growing 😀
I physically recoiled in laughter when you said, “Better known as, a brace.”
Good amount of misinformation in this video. Best Buy doesn't just jack up their prices on computers, often times it is based off the manufacturers MSRP, sometimes even cheaper. In the case that another website is cheaper, Best Buy also price matches. Comparing the Omens on Best Buy's website to their exact model on HP's website actually shows that Best Buy had a lower price, and that took less than 5 minutes of looking at their products pages to find that out. So to say it's Best Buy's fault for selling the computer for over $1000 when the same computer is being sold on competing websites for around the same price is is honestly just an uneducated statement. Especially when for the same price, Best Buy carries some pretty decent prebuilt machines from other brands, so really the HP Omen is just a shite computer in general, and not in the fault of one retailer who didn't even make the thing. I understand that the guy working at Best Buy might not have been the most helpful, but there are plenty of other employees who could have helped, so you shouldn't let one bad experience with one person let you flat out say to never buy a machine from Best Buy.
That being said though, the PC you built is pretty nice, so good job there. 👍
I just looked up everything online. I bought a PC there but knew what I wanted and what I was buying and knew it was a bit more than to build but I could setup the PC and play that day too. My PC is running strong and no problems running Skyrim VR modded.
What’d you buy? Which model
To be fair, I bought a i7 8700k, 16gb of ram, 500gb 2tb ssd hdd, gtx 1060 6gb Pc from Best Buy for 1300$ cad, and if you know anything about building a pc in Canada 1300$ is a very good price
Yes the price is very good like my pc is around 1400 cad with tax and my cpu is a ryzen 5 2600x
But that's parts not a prebuild right??
I have a 1060 6gb in my system. Paid around 300 total for it tho :p. Still gotta upgrade ram and get an ssd for more fps and bettor loading specifically in gta
chris sehtman it was a Prebuilt, But at the time of this comment it’s been upgraded.
AKhana that’s nice! I’ve upgraded quite substantially, so I have 32gbs of ram as well as a 1070 ti from EVGA. Would definitely recommend getting an ssd, Open World games slog down very hard without one.
I just realized all his fans are intake. He should flip around the ones on top and in the back.
Yea it might be extremely beneficial for extra performance. Idk the temps as of writing this comment but thermal throttling might happen to the gpu with a cooler gpu you can overclock for added performance
Funny story the place where i went to i actually treated me amazing, they knew what they were talking about and i got a great deal
Same a guy told me to wait a few weeks and it will be on sale and it was
I doubt anyone will see this but if you want an insanely good pc, go on Micro center and you can get a Ryzen 7 2700 and Gigabyte B350 For $240 with a cpu cooler and you can get an RX 580 red dragon for $170 both brand new. Hope this helps for those of you trying to build a budget PC.
And you get 3 games with the 580
I physically don’t have local deals my man you’re so lucky ❤️🔥keep up the good work
My first thought was he must be living in one of them cities that have more people than my entire state does.
“IO shield, better known as a “Brace”😂😂
During Black Friday 2018 I built a Ryzen 5 2600 and GTX 1070 for around 925 dollars. I'm pretty sure that was a good deal.
Can you link me your whole build on PCPP?
Mateusz Szpakut Same I got mine on black friday an Omen Obelisk for $1500 with the specs wig rtx 2080, i7 8700, 16gb (which came with one stick which i cried)
Do you count your gas/mileage when you pick up your parts? Thats a cost too.
It's like $20-25 bucks at the end of it
KristoferYee - How about the cost of your time? People with money don’t mind paying more for convenience. Because the value of their time is worth more than the potential savings.
KristoferYee Hi, thank you for the video. I always like to get the maximum performance for money spent. I think that is the real difference between pc builders.
@@iMadrid11 I was thinking of this today in terms of cooking food at home vs eating out. While I have slightly more money, I have less time so....yeah.
@@iMadrid11 I dunno. No matter the time spent driving around or whatever while I'm not working would definitely be worth the ~$400-$500 saved in the case.
Me: *bought a gaming pc from Best Buy like 1 month ago*
Also Me: *saw the title and kinda feel nervous*
Biscuit - omg this was me I bought a pc from Best Buy on friday
Failed Donut same i got the ibuypower online but who cares it’s a good pc
Failed Donut did the pc work though
@@tavarusbenton5291 yes
@@howlthehell9791 yea same I really like mine.
I just bought a pc from Best Buy with a 3070 and the guy we that helped us knew his stuff very well
Me to
It probably depends on the worker, I doubt Best Buy does any type of pc parts training for their employees since they sell so much more than just computers, so it makes sense. Now if he tried to buy a pc from microcenter and the employee was that clueless, that'd be more of an issue.
Favorite RUclipsr ever! I built 2 pc’s because of you
Cool
Same except I pretty much just held the flashlight as my friend did all the work
@@henrye561 Rip
Aye send me one
Henry E you have a good friend
16:23 can’t stop looking at the monitor
kristofer really lives “another mans trash, is another mans treasure”
I ran into an actually decent pc in Best Buy, a nice friend I knew works there, if you’re curious, the PC is MSI Aegis RS
The second I came and saw that head behind you, I was like what the heck. :D
Im so happy I built my own PC instead of buying one in BestBuy.
I need to learn to build
@No ducks Thanks 👍 I need to find the time to build it
Intenxsify This was my first build it was hell took me 3-5 hrs but it was worth it
@@CoinRingsUSA you only get that with buying an HP or dell. the cyberpowers dont come with bloatware and arent overpriced pieces of shit. the components are actually very good quality. Wouldnt know that based on a video like this where he singles out ONE shitty product from a SHITTY manufacture and blames the entire store for it.
@@JoshuaDay0550 exactly right after black Friday I picked up a cyberpower pc with a rtx 2080 and i7 i8700k for a about $1400 killer steal. It totally depends what you buy and there are times where they have killer deals.
Great Value, but....... There is a bigger difference between the i7 8700 and Ryzen 2600 than you are acknowledging
Not really. Ipc is a tie, core and thread count is a tie, clock speed goes to Intel but it doesn't sustain boosts of 4.6 it usually settles in at around 4.2 or lower furring tasks. The 2600 will OC to 4.1 on all cores pretty easily so I'd say it's pretty damn close. An 8700k is a different story but the non k version is close to the 2600
You mean the fact that one is overclockable and the other isn't?
Gearstrax - Gaming & Twitch 2600 not 2600X dont talk unless u know what your talking about. The 8700 destroys the 2600 in clock speed.
@@andrewvong2421 lmao all Ryzen series CPUs are over lockable, X or no. The X only applies to Intel CPUs wtf. "Don't talk unless you you know what you're talking about" sir eat your own words
Gearstrax - Gaming & Twitch I don't consider overclockable to be less than 10% improvement. Yes you can oc it but u can barely with the 2600 or 2600x, in general people dont overclock ryzen cpus cuz there bad.0
It actually depends on the type of PC you want to buy.
All HP computers has a death timer that activates for a time set of two years as soon as they activate it.
And Dell is an honest company. They would never break no matter what the specifications are. I literally have an E1705, 16 years later, it's still running. I have a Dell OptiPlex 3090 Hightower, still runs. I'd prefer Dell out of anything else. Never buy HP.
wait hp actually has a death timer? i just had one break after 1 1/2 - 2 years
Death timer? LOL I’ve had a hp computer for 3 and a half years and it hasn’t broke
I actually got an amazing pre built Black Friday deal at Best Buy, rtx 2070 i7 8700 1tb ssd 2 tb hard drive all for 1 grand
When you buy on sale like on a Black Friday deal, it can be worth it.
Wigglythegreat2 yea and when he says they use all cheap graphic cards and stuff that not really true, although I don’t suggest prebuilt ones but their new ibuypower ones are well worth it.
AliMations RO Black Friday is the best time to get deals from Best Buy.
TeddyCola what was the pc called!
Not 8700k? xD
Kristofer Yeet coming through with the heat 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hi Matt :)
Bestbuy can sometimes have decent deals. Microcenter always has decent deals tho:)
My microcenter has last year model sales around this time of year, and knocks a lot off the price.
There are no microcenters near me
This video makes me think of my friend buying a PC the other week, he didn’t want to build one himself so just sent me a link for a prebuilt. The one he sent me was literally called their “modern warfare warzone” model it cost 400 more than one I found in 2 minutes on their site with literally better or the same parts in every category they literally gave it worse performance and boosted the price up with the name recognition just to trick people that have no idea what they’re looking at. When you actually look into it pre builds just seems so scummy I understand charging like 200 for building as standard more if custom looping etc but having looked around recently this whole thing seems awful
I honestly wish every office system (optiplex, inspiron, compaq, etc etc) didn't come with dual channel ram so I could just add a second stick rather than needing to get a full kit to upgrade the ram.
Wait... so you want mismatch rams?
@@johnemmanuel1426 I'd rather buy a second stick of DDR3 1600mhz than buy an 8gb DDR3 stick and mismatching it with one of the 4gb sticks that came with the system.
I wish i knew more about computers... Cause i made the biggest mistake of buying the computer i have right now...
it's has a
Asus h61m-pro Motherboard
i3-3250 processor
Stock cooler
Integrated graphics card
4 gb of ram
500W Power supply
And no SSD
I feel so ashamed buying this computer, cause if i knew more i would probably end up with a better one.. but i can't afford one now
hopefully in the future i will.
And also thank you Kristopher for teaching me a lot about computers i'm really thankful
How much did you pay?
I feel extremely bad for you. Don’t worry, it’ll be okay....
"gooder"
-KritoferYee 2019
That's how you know he knows his stuff.
a good look into what we used to have price wise, rip decent prices
I mean, hardware is hardware. Best Buy is no better or worse than any other store in that regard...they have awesome sales all the time. And you can straight up return anything to the store for a good amount of time (45 days if you're an Elite Plus Member). I always suggest researching the items online before going into the store though because the tags in the store have very minimal info. Plus, you never know if the usual computer department guy is sick for the day and they've got someone from TV's covering him. They don't only sell custom gaming PC's, you know...
Office depot has some great sales on laptops and desktops from time to time(check during back to school season). Of course most likely you'll have to add in the video cards and a beefier psu but that can be fun
This is why some stores should stick with what they do best..
Imagine a grocery store selling computer parts or even a computer store selling groceries....
Luvon Griffin that's why they're not good at it. They should just stick with foods and other things not related to computers.
... it’s an electronics store. They have a computer repair shop in store.... they sell components and pricematch with all competitors...
@@TheDirtypuppies yet noone really recommends them.
Knocked Out personally I have a lot of friends who come into Best Buy for everything and almost all of my customers are extremely happy with their purchase soooo
@@TheDirtypuppies yet kristofer tells u why you shouldn't buy pc's from best buy and how its a scam.
Do you sell the PCs you build or what do you do with them?
Or do you just have about 15 PCs randomly standing in your apartment???
have 4 of them right now running. intel 2550k, 4820k, ryzen 1600, 1700 and 2 in the closet collecting dust. not like they are worth anything after 2 years anyhow.
Also some of those parts could have been used as long as mine have been running. They do not move and I have most of the original boxes still just stuffed in the case box.
Slathian let me get one buddy😶
Me personally I have 1 workstation, 2 servers (one for VM's and one for bulk storage cause I'm too lazy to do that via VM) and a dedicated freebsd test machine. Also a few laptops that have been tinkered with over time. Some stuff gets upgraded every once in a while other stuff stays as built till it dies. I've also built lots of PC's for friends, but if you want that silly RGB nonsense I'm not your guy.
this is spot on. when i went to bestbuy for a pre built pc in 2013 this is exactly right