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MrWizard6600
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First off I'm inviting people to plant for any stores they wish to...
I've maintained for the longest time that, Dell and Alienware really really rip you off at the highend, but their sub $500 PCs are an alright deal. I've recently, maybe not revolutionized that view but certainly changed it to "a deal somewhere between minor ripoff and alright one (at the sub $500 level)". To think that a company with such major shipping lanes and huge contracts with massive bulk savings could be outed by this little place is somewhat intresting, at least to me.
Its ironic too isn't it? I'm sure everyone here knows some cockey guy who's got his $5,000 Alienware PC, and upon hearing the hurt his wallet took you snicker and say under your voice "heh, congrats, my $1600 custom can push Crysis as well as, if not better then that overpriced hunk of OEM badness".
I mean really, at what price point does Dell or Alienware or HP or E-machines or any big OEM even consider putting something from the 8 series or HD3k series in your computer? Only after you've agreed to the SLI mobo, the 700W PSU, the QX9,950, and the 4 gigs of ram right? I mean yeah, I'm sure if I looked hard enough I could find a modest system with an 8800GTS 320mb (if $1600 can be described as "modest").
So, I've always despised these major OEMs for taking the law of diminishing returns to whole new heights. But at the lower end they're ok right? I mean surly as big as they are they get insider deals that cant really be beat unless you know multiple suppliers right?
Well I don't think so.
The little store, the little Ma and Pa shop I'm going to plant for, called alinx, offers their highest end system, the "AMD Super+ system", containing an 8800GT 512mb Superclocked from EVGA for $1069 + tax Canadian.
Their customer support isn't steller but its by no means shotty. The components are all name brand and the remaining system specs are right up there: X2 6000+, 4 gigs DDR2 800 system ram, 500 gig drive, 650W cooler master...
anyways, yeah, I'm tired both of typing and in general. The moral of the story is, this little place is pretty awsome, and the major OEMs are bad. If your a member of H you should seriously consider building your own PC, and if your an innocent first time view-er or googler to this thread, don't look at Dell or Alienware for your next gaming (or even office use) PC, go to a couple of hole in the wall places and give em a budget and see what they come up with, because Its almost assuridly better then what these OEMs are going to offer.
/rant.
/plant.
/being awake.
I've maintained for the longest time that, Dell and Alienware really really rip you off at the highend, but their sub $500 PCs are an alright deal. I've recently, maybe not revolutionized that view but certainly changed it to "a deal somewhere between minor ripoff and alright one (at the sub $500 level)". To think that a company with such major shipping lanes and huge contracts with massive bulk savings could be outed by this little place is somewhat intresting, at least to me.
Its ironic too isn't it? I'm sure everyone here knows some cockey guy who's got his $5,000 Alienware PC, and upon hearing the hurt his wallet took you snicker and say under your voice "heh, congrats, my $1600 custom can push Crysis as well as, if not better then that overpriced hunk of OEM badness".
I mean really, at what price point does Dell or Alienware or HP or E-machines or any big OEM even consider putting something from the 8 series or HD3k series in your computer? Only after you've agreed to the SLI mobo, the 700W PSU, the QX9,950, and the 4 gigs of ram right? I mean yeah, I'm sure if I looked hard enough I could find a modest system with an 8800GTS 320mb (if $1600 can be described as "modest").
So, I've always despised these major OEMs for taking the law of diminishing returns to whole new heights. But at the lower end they're ok right? I mean surly as big as they are they get insider deals that cant really be beat unless you know multiple suppliers right?
Well I don't think so.
The little store, the little Ma and Pa shop I'm going to plant for, called alinx, offers their highest end system, the "AMD Super+ system", containing an 8800GT 512mb Superclocked from EVGA for $1069 + tax Canadian.
Their customer support isn't steller but its by no means shotty. The components are all name brand and the remaining system specs are right up there: X2 6000+, 4 gigs DDR2 800 system ram, 500 gig drive, 650W cooler master...
anyways, yeah, I'm tired both of typing and in general. The moral of the story is, this little place is pretty awsome, and the major OEMs are bad. If your a member of H you should seriously consider building your own PC, and if your an innocent first time view-er or googler to this thread, don't look at Dell or Alienware for your next gaming (or even office use) PC, go to a couple of hole in the wall places and give em a budget and see what they come up with, because Its almost assuridly better then what these OEMs are going to offer.
/rant.
/plant.
/being awake.