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Newegg Takes the Guesswork out of Building a PC

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Newegg, one of the leading tech-focused e-retailers in North America, has unveiled the Newegg PC Builder, the company's one-stop shop for designing and building custom PCs. For nearly two decades, Newegg has been the go-to destination for technology enthusiasts, offering best-in-class site navigation, millions of PC hardware reviews and some of the best prices available. The Newegg PC Builder leverages the company's deep tech heritage to deliver a PC configuration tool that eliminates the need to consider hardware compatibility, enabling novices and experts alike to easily compile and purchase all the necessary parts to build their own custom PC.

Building a custom PC is one of the most satisfying DIY experiences in the tech space, opening the door to personalization, upgraded components, custom cooling and hardware overclocking. The PC becomes an extension of its creator, who is no longer constrained to a limited assortment of pre-built systems. Customers can spec out a machine purpose-built for specific tasks such as gaming, rendering or video editing. With the Newegg PC Builder, what used to require hours of painstaking manual compatibility checks can now be accomplished in mere minutes.



Customers navigate an intuitive workflow to configure the ideal PC to suit their needs and budget, with the ability to purchase all the necessary components via a single transaction. Since entering public beta testing less than a month ago, the Newegg PC Builder has already helped thousands of customers design their own custom PCs.

"Newegg got its start nearly two decades ago selling components to tech enthusiasts, many of whom built their own computers long before home PC building caught on as a mainstream trend," said Anthony Chow, Newegg's Global CEO. "The Newegg PC Builder is a direct connection to our DIY roots, and we're excited about empowering the next generation of home PC builders."

Building a PC can be a complicated process with near-limitless configuration possibilities. With so many components, brands, specs and compatibility issues, determining the right configuration that suits the customer's usage needs and budget limitations can be a daunting task. The Newegg PC Builder removes the guesswork and makes it easy for anyone to design their dream PC.

Build from Scratch
Start by choosing any part, then the Newegg PC Builder automatically filters out incompatible parts. This process continues as subsequent components are added to the build, ensuring the customer can only select from parts that are assured to work together. Once a build is fully configured, the user can experiment with substituting components to either tweak performance capabilities, or adjust the overall cost.

Customize Preconfigured Builds
First-time builders may opt to begin with one of Newegg's three preconfigured options, which currently include budget, mainstream and enthusiast builds. Once they've selected the build that most closely suits their needs and budget, the user can add their own custom touches by substituting as many components as they'd like. The result is a custom build that perfectly reflects the customer's performance requirements and available budget. After customers receive their parts, they can view Newegg's How To Build Your Own PC video tutorial for additional guidance on completing their build at home.

To start building visit https://newegg.com/pcbuilder

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And thats perfectly fine. You dont have to use it. If you look, they give you a few options. Budget, Mainstream, and Enthusiast. Each one has a "base" and you can even customize it. Just like you would on Origin if you were buying a PC from them. Or there is an option to Select your own parts a la PCPartPicker. It actually looks nicer than PCP imo.

I saw this the other day when I was buying parts for my dad's new computer.
 
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Heh. I was putting one together and when it was time to pick a PSU it said "We’re sorry, there are no items that match your selections. Please adjust your selections to try again. ".
Also, picking the budget prebuilt showed a blank screen.
 
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Heh. I was putting one together and when it was time to pick a PSU it said "We’re sorry, there are no items that match your selections. Please adjust your selections to try again. ".
Also, picking the budget prebuilt showed a blank screen.
It is beta but I am on it right now and it seems to be working fine.
 
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For all the hardware for PCs that Newegg has shipped to customers over all these years, you think they'd ship my HDD better. They at least packed it inside a box, unlike Amazon where they tossed it inside a plastic envelope, but they didn't put proper packing material inside - just 4 bubble spacers that took up about 1/2 of the empty space. The box arrived with the HDD flopping around and banging about inside the box.

I'm starting to believe that these big retailers can't ship anything worth a damn anymore. Just toss items into a box/envelope as fast as you can, maybe add a touch of packing material and throw it on the truck. I want my stuff to arrive undamaged and in working condition, not to find out its been bouncing around in a box as the box gets abused like it was handled by Ace Ventura.



I'd be more than happy to hit up local stores and spend a little more to pick up things I need if the local stores carried what I was after. Instead I have to rely on these online retailers that have been doing a piss poor job as of lately.

If they can't ship material properly to me, why would I care about a feature that's already offered elsewhere (pcpartpicker.com)? Anyway, when I was last trying to piece computer parts on newegg a month or two back they had such limited stock on things that I didn't even bother to continue to look on their site.
 
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For all the hardware for PCs that Newegg has shipped to customers over all these years, you think they'd ship my HDD better. They at least packed it inside a box, unlike Amazon where they tossed it inside a plastic envelope, but they didn't put proper packing material inside - just 4 bubble spacers that took up about 1/2 of the empty space. The box arrived with the HDD flopping around and banging about inside the box.

I'm starting to believe that these big retailers can't ship anything worth a damn anymore. Just toss items into a box/envelope as fast as you can, maybe add a touch of packing material and throw it on the truck. I want my stuff to arrive undamaged and in working condition, not to find out its been bouncing around in a box as the box gets abused like it was handled by Ace Ventura.



I'd be more than happy to hit up local stores and spend a little more to pick up things I need if the local stores carried what I was after. Instead I have to rely on these online retailers that have been doing a piss poor job as of lately.

If they can't ship material properly to me, why would I care about a feature that's already offered elsewhere (pcpartpicker.com)? Anyway, when I was last trying to piece computer parts on newegg a month or two back they had such limited stock on things that I didn't even bother to continue to look on their site.

Frankly, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that.

But it is one of the two reasons why I always prefer going to a brick-and-mortar store. I don't have to worry about how my package was handled by the delivery service (or if/when my package is going to be delivered) if I go out and buy it personally instead of over the Internet.
 
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Designed to ensure you spend all your money through them, and don't go to other parts stores.
 
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PCPartPicker does this better and with better prices, no thanks.
 
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If there's guesswork, then you don't have the knowledge or skills required lol

I disagree, I've gotten by in IT purely on guess work.

That being said, seems like a dick move on New Egg's part considering how much money their now competitor has generated for them. They made a big deal about fighting off some patent trolls a while back, now they are the trolls.
 
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Thought I'd go check it out as I noticed it the other day when checking out B550 boards. Can't manually select components that are out of stock. I didn't expect this to dethrone PCPP, especially as it's just in beta stages, but the lack of this sort of functionality definitely cements PCPP as the leader in build planning - not that it needed a clone to justify that
 
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