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Currently I don't think any of them are for sale. And currently they are all rip offs (some more than others ofc). And naturally I can't fully say witch ones are worse because most of them don't have proper documentation on the parts. While the pricing is still very much up in the air, the fact that there any of them are more than $1,000 shows this is just to fuck people that don't know what they are doing over. However Asus' looks pretty good for a good range of games and Gigabyte's looks like it would work for older, less intensive games. In all actuality the small ones with proprietary cases are pretty much just laptops without screens or keyboards. Weirdly I feel like I would actually recommend the machine that can't be upgraded over those that can, but that's pretty much entirely because if you can upgrade it you should have built it yourself.
Like I said I can't say for certain which ones are good and bad, But I can say which ones you should
absolutely avoid:
Alienware: no specific specs for GPU
Webhallen: Literally just a prebuilt PC. Non-proprietary case = you could build it yourself for less
Material.net: Literally just a prebuilt PC. Non-proprietary case = you could build it yourself for less
Falcon Northwest Tiki: The case is only 4 inches wide, and their price range is from 2,000 to 5,000 dollars... It is impossible to put 5,000 dollars into a PC that small without either fucking the entire build up 3 times, wasting most of your money, or making a heatsink out of solid gold (which is dumb because copper is way better for that).
Origin: All of their specs are "up to [ultra high end]" you're better off building your own. And no, if you want one of there cases you can't just buy it from them, because they are asshats like that.
Other stuff to avoid is anything with an SSHD by default. It's not worth it at all, your better off with an SSD and an HDD separately. DON'T buy something if all it says is i5 processor, there is a massive difference between a 4690k and a 4430. Same goes for graphics card if all it says is 9-series Nvidia or "NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX - 2GB GDDR5" (straight from alienware) avoid it.
What I do very much recommend is building your own. I've always said "if you can work a screwdriver and lego you can build a PC."
If you don't know where to start on choosing parts I have some resources that can help
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/builds
http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/
http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcforme/ (really only if you don't want to choose anything)
And the best resource I can give is me!
Any of you guys are more than welcome to ask me for help whenever you need it. Cuz I luv u guys <3 I have helped multiple people choose parts with a couple PC's being close to or over $2,000 and I've of course built my current PC and am working on a second now.
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