PCPartPicker Reviews 37

We've used PCPartPicker for two very different but equally important builds, tracking hard drive prices to put together a 288TB RAID-5 storage enclosure for our production company, and sourcing components for a few high-end custom PCs that pull double duty for production work and gaming. The price tracking feature alone saved us significant money on the storage build, letting us wait for the right deals across multiple drives before pulling the trigger.

For the PC builds, having compatibility checks built in takes a lot of the guesswork out of speccing high-end components. RTX cards, processors, everything, and the community builds are a great reference point when you're figuring out where to spend and where to save. It's one of those tools that just works exactly the way you need it to.

They were very helpful when I needed to reorder my pc everything went very smoothly

After a week or so using the website an trying to get the best idea for my next pc build I was randomly banned for no reason. I tried to reach out to support but never got an automated email back saying I contacted them. Please remove my IP ban and I will change my review as its not fair to be banned from a website for literally zero purpose and then take a while for a response and or action.

PcPartPicker has always been a useful tool to me with useful compatibility filters and great features (filters etc). Great for new pc builders!

Easy to use, great for managing a build list!

A very useful website to help you choose compatibe parts and compaire prices. It can help you save good money, but remember it does not have an exhaustive list of sellers. It worth doing your research and then decide where it is cheaper. It does save you a lot of time though.

Quite the dandy website for well... picking PC parts! Instead of having to compare prices on every website in existence, I can just use this! It also shows me incompatibility before I buy the parts!

I am new to pc building and was banned from pcpartpicker after looking for help . When I contacted them, they never gave me a valid ban reason. Pcpartpicker should not be trusted.

I feel like this is a great website for pc Building I’ve recently just been messing around with this Website and I’m Trying to get myself the Perfect $1,000 pc Build I just Don’t know what kind of cpu and gpu’s that Would go Perfect with a $1,000 pc Build

I have been building PCs for more than 2 years now and I get helped by this website, especially for picking a PC component. But this website has flaws in building a custom water-cooled PC that doesn't have its feature yet. One more thing that has flaws is the USB headers, especially in the Motherboard Usage. I don't blame it too much but it made me a little bit confused when building PCs.
The rest of it is acceptable.

I am currently in search of pc parts to build my own pc and after only 2 weeks of searching on many different sites and with the help of PCPartPicker, I think I finaly have the build that fits me the most with a low budget, with the help of PCPartPicker I built a pc and managed to check the watt usage of my build and then I managed to find a good power supply, on top of that every part is compatible (i checked on many other sites and even listened to youtubers and pc building experts online) so I think PCPartPicker can be trusted but I would still recommend to fact check your pc build with the help of other trusted sites because some people have said that their pc builds on PCPartPicker weren't compatible. The only thing that I think is weird is that my pc case (Corsair 4000d airflow) isn't compatible with my build on PCPartPicker while the case has the exact requirements that I need, and I have seen pc builds with the same motherboard as mine use, the same case. In conclusion this site is trustworthy for fast information but still fact check just to be sure.

I just started to build two gaming pc one for my ps5 console and the other for mobile gaming as well

There's really no way to complain about a free service like this, especially one that does it's job so well.

To be clear, it doesn't do everything for you. For example, it can't do compatibility checking to ensure your cooler will fit with your RAM, or if your motherboard's VRM heatsink is too tall for a low profile cooler, and some other physical dimensions that you need to manually search up and check yourself - manufacturers simply don't make that information as easily available.

But for what it does and the convenience it offers - I cannot recommend this enough to beginner PC builders, and even experienced ones.

Used this a few times to build my own pc, and do not regreat at all using it. Even forwarns of any possibly compatability or fitmit issues, and does well finding best reputable prices.

Long-time computer builder here. I've relied upon Pcpartpicker.com almost exclusively over the years and it had always been reliable. Not so with my latest build. So far, there have been three incompatible components in my new build and I'm still in trouble. These have been very costly errors.

For future consideration, I will research what I want out of a computer and follow the motherboards manufacturer's recommendations.

It's a mediocre to poor site to piece together your PC build, it's not all peaches and cream as most folks make it out to be. Most of my builds are not my own, I build rigs for other people by word of mouth but I don't save or display them on the site because I don't want to steal there glory so to speak. Should they wish to display there brand new shiny rig on PCPartPicker they won't get harassed for using a build from someone else. So far four of my builds that I built for someone else have managed to find there way onto there site and displayed by them. I do display my own builds though.

One thing to note is that their parts picker is wrong on quite a few occasions, I've pieced together a build only to get the parts in and find that they actually don't work together. I have to actually double check with the manufacturer's website whether two, three or even four parts will fit together and it's very tedious work but it has to be done because on quite a few occasions I've had to pay for return shipping on parts that their website said were compatible with each other. So don't hold their parts picker as gospel.

Also their pricing system is not that good, almost on every part I've found a cheaper deal by using Google Shopping, sometimes by quite a bit too. If you want to pay $25- $175 more use strictly their website and nothing else, if you want the best deals go to Google Shopping, it will spider the web and find you the best deals period.

For a long time I stayed silent and only used their parts picker but lately I've been kind of active on their forums. This was a big mistake because it seems as though the owner, Philip pulls favoritism over facts and doesn't believe in the First Amendment. What I mean is he evidently has certain people that are his favorites and whether their wrong or right if you cross them or disagree with them in any way you are in the wrong and you will be warned not to do so in the future. Even if you report that person as trolling your reprimanded for reporting them in the first place asking you not to report that person as they did nothing wrong most likely his favorites obviously.

Also Philip's so called "Favorites", give out bad information collected from websites that have been proven to give falsified and bogus reviews and they regard it as gospel so anything you ask on there these guys will give you bad info that can cost you in the end. You can't argue the truth with them either because they hide behind Philip's wall of "I can say no wrong" type of people.

All I try to do is offer my help, my knowledge to others asking for help and I was told to be silent and not to participate here, those were Philip's words (there goes my First Amendment right out the window).

This place is NOT a good place in my opinion, my advice to anyone seeking advice about their website, find another place to express yourself about your build like Redditt or another forum. If you do venture into their forums do NOT engage with anyone there as eventually you will overstay your welcome and be set in your rightful place as a NON favorite or someone who is not welcome there.

MY ADVICE... STAY AWAY AT ALL COST!

I wouldn't even contemplate building a PC without PCPartPicker - an incredibly useful resource.

I build a computer using this site helps and the computer zi build ran smoothly with no compatibility issues. Would recommend for anyone who want to build a new PC.

5 star. Things to improve:

- more frequent catalog update
- adding custom parts with photos
- automatic redirection to regional website (sometimes I forget and add a part on the US website and it puts USD as currency to my build)