What Reddit says about PowerSpec

“The only issue I had with mine was a power supply going bad, they replaced it with a name brand rather than the power spec because it was still under the year warranty, just had to pay it a $90 diagnostics fee which I'm sure I could have fought but I was just happy to have my rig back.”

“Bought a top end gaming rig in November, running great, love it, highly recommend”

“2 of my buddies have had theirs since 2021 and no issues yet.”

“I recently bought the G757. When I brought it home, it seemed to boot, but the display wouldn’t come up. I opened it up and pressed the graphics card down harder into the MB. Fixed. Amazing gaming experience.”

“I got the G730 (7800X3D, 5070ti) a month ago and it been great. I havent had any issues.”

“I don't speak for the company.. Powerspec champion...Powerspec is the best selling pre built at Microcenter. They are almost always the best for the price and even business customers swear by them. They do have issues here and there but so do all of brands. There was an MSI motherboard issue with enabling XMP on ram a while back. But that was on MSI and they released 4 bios updates in the span of two months to fix the issue. A lot of the issues stem from DDR5 issues. That being said the salespeople are very good at telling home office about issues and we won't recommend or will even steer people away from problem computers.”

“I haven’t heard of many problems. I’ve had mine for 6 months with no issues.”

“It's gonna be better than ibuyproblems or cyberpadonkadonk, the downside being if you built it yourself it's cheaper, and like someone else said you could "PowerSpec" a bigger power supply lol.”

“I have two power specs now the g468 and now the g757 they are great computers. I recently swapped the stock fans for better cooling though but the computer was well within good thermals”

“Powerspec PCs are generally quality builds using normally commercially available parts and put together by Microcenter's generally competent staff, and come with a solid warranty as well as all the individual part warranties. It's one of the better ways to buy a prebuilt IMHO. Sometimes they're great deals, sometimes they're not, but it often depends on the parts. You don't get to choose your parts personally, but they tend to not use crap parts and Microcenter is generally pretty stand up in supporting their PCs. So the better thing to ask is: Is a specific model a good price for a prebuilt?”

“I got my son one for Xmas. wanted to self build like I always have but the powerspec was a steal at 770. I couldn't build an equivalent spec for under 1050. quality is solid for a prebuilt.”

“I bought the PowerSpec G757 last November because it was cheaper than buying the parts separately.”

“The power supplies on the 5080 builds are solid, there is little if any performance gains by going with another motherboard. The nvme drive will be a solid gen 4. All in all it’s a very solid build in the 5080 power spec builds. You could buy that and then recase it later if you wanted. Things you won’t get, video card with rgb It’s really aesthetics that change when you move into your own custom build. But the fact you can get an extended warranty on the powerspec makes it attractive for someone who just wants the performance and doesn’t care about the looks.”

“Given the recent price hikes for the 50 series, prebuilts might actually be better than building it yourself for at least right now. I'm not sure though, haven't checked.”

“Compared to other prebuilt brands, power spec is pretty good. Pricing wise, a power spec is going to beat building it yourself. Quality wise it’s most likely going to be worse than building it yourself unless you specifically only sort by lowest price and choose the absolute cheapest part every time.”

“I bought a PowerSpec G760 4 months ago. The current equivalent is a G764. High quality components throughout. My SSD is a Samsung Pro something. I love my machine and can play everything on ultra settings in 1440p with >150fps. I love mine!”

“Power spec is just Microcenter in house prebuilts. They do a great job building them and you get what you pay for. I always recommend Microcenter prebuilts when people ask.”

“Powerspec is great they are Microcenter in house brand. They use quality parts all around and don’t cheap out on the PSU and RAM brands like most prebuilts do. G757 is quiet as a mouse and temps are extremely cool”

“Micro Center and check out the PowerSpec pre-built desktops. It's their own in-house brand.”

“picked up a G455 over the summer...5070ti. Runs great.”

“Our last three PCs have been PowerSpec. Never had an ounce of trouble with any of them.”

“If you have access to Microcenter , their Powerspec prebuilts are amazing deals for the money with good support”

“hi girlie!! this is actually a super cute bday gift idea, i’m actually so jealous he has a gf like you 🥹 but if he actually built his first pc, and he loves building it, then buying the parts and giving them to him wrapped up as boxes and him getting to build it could actually be an amazing experience rather than just getting a single box of prebuilt, especially at that budget. personally, i built my first pc a few years ago and made it super aesthetic- it’s one of the all-time top-voted builds on pcpartpicker. i recently decided to upgrade, and because the parts were so insane i ended up going with a prebuilt myself- i chose microcenter’s powerspec g757, because it’s one of the brands that they use floor brand models rather than cheaping out on motherboard/power supply like a lot of brands like ibuypower do. from my extensive research, g757 at $2499 on sale right now was the BEST, bang for my buck. it was worth just for cpu, gpu, ram, and ssd. i ended up switching out the case and a few other parts because aesthetic matters a lot to me but it’s not a bad looking build. i think the only other one i was considering was andromeda from walmart, but it was more expensive iirc. anyway, feel free to msg me for any question & if you actually end up going custom parts, i can help you pick everything out as well!”

“I bought the Powerspec G458. Its perfect for me, ability for AAA games, light AI (if into that) and great for CAD and Rendering etc.”

“I bought the PowerSpec G757 and am in absolute love with it. Best deal I could’ve got for the value of it. 5080, 2TB SSD, 32GB RAM. Paired it with a nice big 34 inch OLED display. No ragrets.”

“I bought the PowerSpec G763, which is just the updated version of the G758. I'm fairly new to PC gaming and for a split second I had some buyers remorse and thought I should have gotten the G765(RTX 5080), but that quickly dissipated when I really starting playing and haven't thought about it since. I just sit down and enjoy playing games.”

“I bought an open box powerspec G757 from microcenter for 2250 which I thought was decent. Originally 2499 but looks like it went up 100 to 2599.”

“Power Spec G757 is the best for price hands down or Andromeda Insights AI 50 Ultra V3 if you don’t live near a microcenter.”

“I have a Micro Center PowerSpec G760 which I bought 3 months ago. It is NOT TRUE that all prebuilders are the same. They used high quality parts includind a Samsung pro 2tb SSD. You won't find that in a lot of prebuilts. Mine plays ultra settings in 1440p at 150-200 or so fps in modern AAA titles. I can play 4k at 100 fps still on very high settings. I highly recommend MC's PowerSpec line.”

“Extremely common. Saw 4 people returning back to back same time same day”

“I’m having this reboot loop issue as well. I can’t get into windows”

“Mines has been terrible. They had the wrong ram installed, faulty motherboard and PSU. Plus used a 6 pin instead of a 12 causing constant power cycling a power down of all monitors and USB peripherals. Currently being worked on right now. Before that I had purchased another one that was bricked and had to trade it in. Id by warry at the least and definitely buy the extended warranty”

“I've purchased several in the past and the hardware and software are normally good. I don't recommend PowerSpec anymore because of the problem with getting drivers and support. I spent 30min yesterday trying to get MicroCenter's chat support to give me a link to a drivers page. All I received was delays ("do you have your receipt?") and crap like "we recommend you have our tech's install the drivers". No I'm not buying a new support agreement, where are the drivers?... never a direct answer. The website has dead links and one buried link to mctsol.com. And of course they didn't list my model. Used speccy to get the motherboard details, and grabbed what I needed off ASRock's website. I compare this to Dell, HP, Asus, which you pay more for, but it has tools and info to update the drivers.”

“I’m having the worse of issues right now. 2 PC (G728) and cannot play a single game from steam without a bunch Window applications deciding to pop up crazy.”

“I had two bad experiences out of five. Why I keep buying is that the warranty is usually honored, though my current issue with a purchase from their new Phoenix location is testing that theory.”

“They seem solid the only thing that is normally weak are the PowerSpec power supplies seem very average but they have a 10yr warranty and if it’s a prebuilt and explodes that’s on MC I’ve used Power Spec before in a few lower end builds with no problem but I might not use it for a 4090/5090 or 7900xtx fwiw”

“If all you care about is performance to price then the prebuilt is better. When spending 3k, personally I’d build something even if it’s a few hundred extra. You get complete control of every single piece of hardware, every aesthetic choice, every sizing choice. You will also feel more attached the the build - and for 3k, saving 400 dollars doesn’t make sense to me to skip all the best parts”

“It’s still debatable but it’s close… The prebuilt powerspec g913 has a 2tb drive and 64gb of ram and a 9900x3d chip for $3500. That’s a good deal if you need all that power, especially the 9900x3d… Take the cheapest retail 5080 at $1250, the cheapest 32gb ram kit at $400, the cheapest 1tb NVMe $170 and your at $1800 ish… case, aio, psu, fans and a slightly cheaper chip you’d be under $3400. But you’re cutting cost on things like the motherboard, chip, memory sizes.”

“I just bought a Powerspec for my son as a first gaming pc. I was a little lazy and the price difference was a wash compared to building myself. What I learned first hand is that they’re well built and boot to Windows with minimal bloat. I was impressed. However a few components are lower tier than I would have picked myself. Ram has very high timings CL38 and I’m finding it difficult to locate an exact matching stick with the same model number. SSD is “fine” but the most basic entry level WD Green SD you can possibly buy. PSU is a no frills Coolermaster with a model number that I cannot find in CM’s database. Non modular and missing the new 12V-2x6 cable because it came with an AMD GPU. So upgrade path limited and will probably have to replace when upgrading. Lastly none of the motherboard or case accessories, save a single SATA cable came with the computer. So if I want to mount a 2.5 or 3.5” drive I might need to buy parts from Lian Li to do so. On a positive note it came with an XFX Pulse 9060XT. No complaints there. Basically anything that is not explicitly called out by model number in the spec sheet could be low tier / entry level and possibly an OEM specific special part number. So you may or may not save money — if the difference in price is very small you might as well do it yourself to ensure you get exactly what you want IMO.”

“If you get crafty and buy lightly used for certain parts, you can save quite a bit and get better quality parts that pre builts skimp out on I got this under $1600 CPU: 7950x GPU: rtx 5070 Motherboard: gigabyte b850M RAM: 32gb ddr5 Corsair SSD: 2tb Samsung 970 evo plus PSU: Rosewill 850W VMG CPU cooler: phantom spirit dual tower Case: Li Lian a3 If I bought this pre built, it’d cost around $2000+, assuming they wouldn’t skimp out on psu, motherboard, or ssd quality”

“i bought G757 back in January. no issues although i did reinstall windows and add a second Nvme, SSDs and a few HDDs. been purring along ever since. no real complaints other than a weird repeating coil whine thing that i know isn't coil whine. Haven't been able to figure that out yet, but rest assured i'll find it and squash it. Edit. resintalled windows becuase i wanted to upgrade to enterprise (from the pre-installed home version) and i never trust pre-installed windows.”