Sold...

Judas · Feb 24, 2006, 07:25 PM

Already put together my first rig for a company.

Budget rig, majority of it's all office work, but there dealing with rather large data bases and large memory footprint programs..

anyways, basically they need xp pro and a reasonably decent machine.. nothing to fancy...

so

1900+ amd athlon
gigabyte board
512mb ram
40gb HD
9200np
300 watt enermax
case and a few other things

thinking 750ish when i get it done

sound reasonable?

(remember this is roughly with tax and in canadian currency)

Dyre Straits · Feb 24, 2006, 07:28 PM

Sounds like a good deal to me. But then, I'm not buying.

Geminiwave · Feb 24, 2006, 08:05 PM

750 for that? dude I realize I live in america but I bought my 2800+ with 1gb of memory and a 9800 pro for just about $500. and that was when they were NEW(9800XT was supreme and pretty newly released back then)

Judas · Feb 24, 2006, 08:08 PM

?

a 9800 pro 128mb brand new (when the 9800XT was around) was going nearly 800 bucks after tax here....

Randomletters · Feb 24, 2006, 09:03 PM

750 is about 550 US dollars right? If so that doesnt sound all that fair considering thats like my pc minus the video card and 512mb ram. I guess though if your building it for them installing all software, updates, and offer some kind of warranty its ok, But there are still other name brand computers that they could pick up for cheaper + theyll be a little newer/better.

Zelig · Feb 24, 2006, 09:46 PM

Seems pricey... checking the Dell flyer my dad recieves, a $550 rig before taxes/shipping comes with a 2.8 GHz Celeron and 80 GB hard drive.

I'm looking at selling my 2600+/1 GB ram/120 GB drive, probably going to ask around $600 for it.

digerati · Feb 24, 2006, 11:18 PM

I've come to the conclusion that building lower end PCs really isn't cheaper to do on your own. The big companies get a big discount on the cheap stuff AND they include windows. So it's really hard to make a break in that market.

Razgriz · Feb 25, 2006, 12:57 AM

profit baby, profit

riles9262 · Feb 25, 2006, 12:21 PM

Maybe with a monitor included it would be ok, but as it stands, it sounds pricey.

Chaos · Feb 25, 2006, 12:28 PM

building systems can be a quick way to go broke these days I had to get out of that business since there is no room for markup on items if the people you are selling to surf the web for prices it's too cut throat for me these days

Chaos · Feb 25, 2006, 12:29 PM

does your price include the OS?

Judas · Feb 25, 2006, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaos

does your price include the OS?

yes

We don't have the advantages of having things shipped here cheaply....

and i have absalutely zero competition really....

the cheapest machine we can get from dell which on there website says 499... but by the time it gets out here.. and taxes are due.. it's well over 700+ bucks... and that's for a POS dell, everything intergrated.. lowest preformance, Celery cpu...

350 bucks gets you a 500mhz AMD K6-2 with 256mb of ram and 15gb HD...

Even without the OS loaded... there HAS to be markup if it's just a small amount..

Those are retail results...

I can beat them now.. but the price is reasonable for the time being..

For example.. i could techinically build the 750 machine i built (although better parts) for nearly have that and still make a buck.. But i've got to make a living and make the business profitable.... without gouging out anyones eyeballs.. i'm pretty good in make damn sure the machine works top and provide the best support i can....

Randomletters · Feb 25, 2006, 01:49 PM

this is what happens when you have multiple dh tabs open, and post in the wrong one.