My humble opinion as a guy who 1) has a degree and job involving PCs on the hardware side of things, and 2) has been building PCs and gaming for decades now: prebuilts are perfectly fine these days. People have a lot of bad thoughts on prebuilts, and for the longest time they were valid. But you’re really not going to build a PC for that much cheaper (if at all in some cases) than you can buy one in 2024, and the quality has gone up drastically in the last few years to the point that most people building will make more mistakes than you’ll see on a prebuilt. I even have one myself I bought from Best Buy, as a matter of fact! I got it on a Black Friday deal last year. I’ve since upgraded the GPU, but I was very impressed with it. If you want to build one go for it though. I’m always saddened by how much tech literacy has gone down the drain with young people these days, so you even wanting to build one in the first place is awesome. But there are really no mentionable drawbacks to going with a prebuilt and you do get the convenience of plugging in a few things and being good to go. Answer from Zeyz on reddit.com