I understand the reluctance of anyone about building their own computer, but there is no magic involved, and if anyone is really unsure the pre built is a valid option.  For standard PCs buying prebuilt is often cost effective as well but you have little control over the quality and even here warranties can become an issue.

The way to stop one vendor playing off against another is to try and get all the components for one supplier.  My last personal build I purchased everything at a good price from one supplier with the exception of the graphics card.  Some vendors, like Scan in the UK, will also provide 28 day insurance for a nominal cost, worth it if you want to have a go but are afraid you might damage something during the build.

Finally, there are some horror stories but on the whole PC components are fairly reliable.  In the last 3 years I must have built around 30 systems (I worked in a PC shop) and with all the components involved I had one Motherboard failure which was replaced in 48 hours.  Everything else worked out of the box.

In the end you pay your money and take a choice but no PC purchase is completely risk free.

 

  

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.