Pre-built upgrade?

As log as its a decent deal conpared to the cost of the parts inside

>>58220584
Would it even be cheaper? What case? Send partpicker.

>>58220622
http://m.bestbuy.ca/defaultpage.aspx?lang=en#/catalog/productdetails.aspx?ajax=true&sku=10407069&lang=en-CA

I'm a retard and forgot the link.

>>58220584
It just depends on the price.

>I5 6400 8gb 1tb win 10 all for 499 cdn.

This is not a good price.

>>58220640
Build it for less then. The 6400 is ~$240, I can't build it cheaper than that. I just don't know what the other issues are with a prepaid build. Is shit gonna be welded onto the motherboard?

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Buy something like this

>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T3600-Xeon-Quad-Core-E5-1620-3-6Ghz-250GB-8GB-DVDRW-Quadro-4000-/252700156306?hash=item3ad61a6192:g:xZ4AAOSw2x1XJ8aM

Compare the CPU in this to what you are looking at on best buy

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2578&cmp%5B%5D=1210

The Xeon kicks the i5's ass.

It's the same amount of RAM. An upgrade to 16gb down the road would be easy and cheap (less than $20).

A 250gb hard drive is fine for now. Add an SSD for your boot drive later.

The Quadro 4000 is equivalent to a GTX 480 in gaming power and will play games on low-mid settings. But you should just sell it for $100 and get a GTX 1080 in its place.

When you do that you will have quite formidable little machine that will do anything you want including playing the newest games on very high to maximum settings for less than $500.

>What about Windows 10?

Did you know you don't actually have to activate it? The only drawback is not being able to change your wallpaper or rice your system. And there are a myriad of ways of getting a cheap license down the road (or just crack it lel). Don't factor the cost of Windows into you build. Buying a license for the sticker price is for suckers.

>>58220761
>get a GTX 1080 in its place.

Meant to type GTX 1060. 1080 is out of your price range, but 1060's can be had for less than $200.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1060-GAMING-ACX-2-0-Single-Fan-03G-P4-6160-KR-3GB-GDDR5-D-/291855626307?hash=item43f3f37043:g:0CwAAOSwFc5Xwugg

>>58220761
And I just noticed this does come with Windows 10 Professional, so there you go.

>>58220584
Only if you can get the entire thing significantly cheaper than building it yourself. For $500, may as well put in the extra $100 and have much higher quality parts.

>>58220736
>I just don't know what the other issues are with a prepaid build

dogshit motherboard
dogshit RAM
dogshit PSU
dogshit case
dogshit GPU or some lulzy extra-dogshit M version that belongs in a laptop
dogshit cable management aka none

>>58220584
Seems OP is considering this piece of trash that BestBuy are pimping out for $499

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/CA/content/model/DT.B15AA.011

As expected, some Grade A Horseshit H110 based comedy using on-chip graphics

Just take your $500 and build something you'll actually be to use and upgrade down the line.

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>>58220761
Unfortunately they don't ship to cannukistan :P

>>58220936
Send them a message and see if they are flexible. Even if you have to pay an extra $50 you'll still come out far ahead.

And it's not the only T3600 with that CPU on ebay.

>>58220636
The only reason to EVER buy a pre-built at Best Buy is if you're getting the Geek Squad protection on it. It's fucking expensive, but at least it covers all of the parts when the shitty PSU they put in it eventually explodes.

I work CS at Best Buy and they charge high prices on everything, but will easily price match anything down. Ordered most of my components from them for my build and price matched them down when my discount didn't kick them down at all.

A lot of the prebuilts you see have nice processors and GPUs, but have shit mobos.

>>58220584
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cRHqNN

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/Xnwm2R

This better? I know the 2nd hand xeon are potential good buys, I just worry about the used parts and my hydro bill in Ontario.

>>58221033
I appreciate the effort but it's not in canadough.