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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The build was terrible. Bent CPU heat sink, USB-C ports not working, and the back of the case I/O panel was not installed correctly, where the metal "tabs" were touching the internals of the USB-C p... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

They effectively deliver on their promises within the announced timeframe. The PC produced is exactly what you choose and looks even better in person.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The built your own PC site is very intutive doing validations of build, so allowing to iterate very quickly on several builds. Then ... the delivery date was meet which is always the most important... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We bought this computer as a birthday gift to our son. He was carefully choosing among different options and made final decision about your company. We greatly appreciate the speed of delivery as w... See more


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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The graphics card support wasnt…

The graphics card support wasnt correctly screwed, so it was a bit to the middle. That way it was in contact with the middle graphics card fan. So it was making a lot of noise when the fan started to rotate. I just set the support on the right position and it was fine.

December 15, 2023
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Reply from PCSpecialist

Hello Antonio Lucas,

Thank you for your feedback, I apologise for this as I understand it can raise a question mark in your head when receiving a brand new PC. I will be raising this with our production team to investigate further. I hope you can use and enjoy the machine for many years to come.

Best Wishes,

Fran

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Affordable Laptop with super specs

The customization options are great! The Laptop I got is relatively cheaper here than if I went to a physical store in Portugal and got a laptop with the same or even less specs.
The all process was simple and fast since the order was in less than 3 weeks I had my brand new laptop at home.
It serves the purpose of gaming, video editing and my engineering work.
At first, I was a bit sad because it was very slow but then understood it was a settings problem with the battery only and now it runs super smoothly

Great quality, great options and great prices!

November 23, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Incredible as always

Not the first time I use PCSpecialist to get a build, laptop arrived solid and in a good state, setup the windows key I had locally and it worked just as intended.

Solid work overall again! Cheers chaps! :D

November 24, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good level of communication during the…

Good level of communication during the computer building/testing phases. The quality of the products I selected is showing up, same the expertise in building my computer tower.
The only bad thing in all this journey was seeing the delivery man literally rolling the cardoard box containing the computer out of the elevator.

October 2, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A very serious and professional enterprise

I loved the possibility of customize my own desktop instead making the tour of all shops in my home town seaching for something that is very difficult to find, if not impossible, which is, a desktop with all my preferences.
PCSpecialist's site is very well build and offer multiple choices for each component.
The 3 times I contacted PCSpecialist by phone, my questions were answered in a very professional, friendly and not in a hurry, way. Sincerely speaking, I was surprised.
The tracking system that allow the customer to know the building process stage, is also very nice.
The expected building time was correct +/- 1 day, the package was arrived to my home in perfect conditions and very, very well packed.
Finally, the desktop is working nice and smoothly as expected.
I'm a PCSpecialist happy custommer and the next time I need a laptop/desktop I know at which door I'm going to knock.
I will also recommend this option to my friends and relatives.

Thank you guys, for your amazing job.

May 20, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We bought this computer as a birthday…

We bought this computer as a birthday gift to our son. He was carefully choosing among different options and made final decision about your company.
We greatly appreciate the speed of delivery as well as informative emails regarding the installation, as well as game codes sent to us.
Great job, keep it up!

April 15, 2023
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Not as smooth as it once was...

I'm a client for many years now and for the first time an order didn't go through flawlessly.

First it was stuck in customs (first order since Brexit situation, we all know it was a disaster in all levels but didn't expect it would also affect simple orders like a PC) but after asking for help PC Specialist moved fast supplying all the documentation required to unstuck it from customs.

When the PC finally arrived it was showing BSOD very frequently even after a full format. I'm suspecting something along the lines of faulty memory sticks or faulty Integrated graphics card but we are still on diagnostics phase.

Could have just been a sequence of bad luck with the order or something really went wrong this time. I'm not losing my trust over this one order, but let's hope the next one will be better because if I was a first time costumer that would have been my last.

October 16, 2022
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Reply from PCSpecialist

Dear Fred,

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of your experience with PCSpecialist.

I am sorry to hear that not only was there delays with your system in transit, that the system is also encountering this issue. As I hope you could attest being a returning customer, this is far from the level of service we strive to provide our customers.

I trust that our support team will be able to find the source of the issue working with you remotely or failing that propose a quick resolution to get this remaining issue resolved once and for all in a timely manner.
If there is anything further you would like to discuss, please do email in to inqueritos@pcspecialist.pt with the subject line ‘TP REVIEW FAO MATTHEW BROWN’ with a link you your review.

Kind regards
Matthew Brown

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service

Great service, always showed carefulness with my build and kept me informed, plus the pc arrived a day earlier which is very important to me.

March 28, 2022
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Very good quality, however...

The computer is really good, high quality!

I don't understand how a computer coming from the UK will take 20+ days to build and ship in 2021.

It looks very neat and worked absolutely fine, but I needed it way earlier. I was hoping the delivery time on the website was a worst-case scenario.

I recommend PC Specialist because of the quality and the brand, they are really good.

October 28, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely Delighted

The only issue with my experience really was the fact that my pc could not come soon enough...
And even so, 2 weeks wait time was almost nothing at all for the times we are living in.

I configured an IONICO laptop and so far I have had it for almost two weeks now and I could not be happier. The quality of the build is outstanding, the computer really feels deluxe both in hardware and software. I ordered mine without Windows installed and regardless, it still comes with a trial version of it and all I had to do was input the key I wanted, without the slightest hassle to actually install it. It even comes comlpetely benchmarked with the memory boosted!

Absolute unit of a service and company, and extremely in budget as well, all the laptops I had seen with these specs were much more expensive than mine was.

Keep up the awesome work, congratulations PCSpecialist.

- Sincerely, a happy customer

September 18, 2021
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

An almost perfect buy

The built quality is above average and in the same category as the higher tier of ROG laptops for example. There is no bloatware and the whole buying/configuring process is very straightforward.

If I had to point out some CONS is the fact that they are charging 11 euros for the use of Arctic MX-4 thermal paste, which is not even one of the higher tier ones (for that value you could buy a lot of MX-4...). I think this should be the default option since I expect PCSpecialist to focus on quality and offer this in good faith.

Also, I received the laptop with a very generic manual, lacking some information/shortcuts for the specific chassis/model I got.

As an end note, I must state that their Customer Support is very active and always ready to help.

May 3, 2021
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