The primary reason would be overall quality. In my experience any prebuilt system in that price range would be cutting corners in one area or another. He wants me to build him one since hes always gone prebuilt and they've always been a disappointment.
What will you be doing with this PC?
Its for my father whose uses are web browsing and playing old video games.
What's your budget?
Around $400 (fairly flexible) the cheaper the better. Would prefer to use Amazon for all of the parts due to tax/prime/returns. Great deals elsewhere will...
You can do what I did and just get 2 of the single 4GB sticks, its the same thing basically.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147094
Playing with randoms just doesn't present any kind of enjoyment to me anymore, so I simply don't play online unless I'm going on specifically to play with friends.
I was going to do that back when I was looking for some but the only places that were selling it were overcharging. I instead went with MX-2 which is good and was super cheap.
Anyone know if they are going to have an open beta that doesn't require pre-ordering? I wouldn't mind trying it out, but I'm not gonna pre-order to do so.
It's not a $20 difference for me. Its nearly $270 after tax from Newegg and $190 after $20 MIR from TigerDirect. I'd say that's a fairly big price difference.
Silverstone Tek EC01-P PCI Express Card with USB 3.0 Internal 19-pin Dual Port Connector
Unfortunately it's OOS @ Amazon, but this place seems to have it: Archer Electronics