$26,000 PC???

[proof]

Off topic but I got kicked out of Circut City for arguing with an incompetent salesman who was selling some woman bullshit about Vista and ATi. More on this later but I gotta go.

P.S. When does the Intel V8 system come out? Like for real.

 

[slim142]

Really interested on knowing what happened there....

SO I CAN DO IT IN THE CIRCUIT CITY CLOSE TO HERE HAHAHAH! :twisted:

 

[proof]

A salesperson had just picked up the last 8800GTX when some woman came by. She asked him if that card was the best because her son just installed Vista and wanted a DX10 card. (Keep in mind that the salesperson wanted this card). He said that no, the 8800GTX didn't support DX10 and that the X1950 Pro was the best card for Vista. Right then I went to Geek-Con 5 and proceeded to rattle off a mixture of statistics, benchmarks, and curse words at the guy. The manager then asked me to leave.

 

[deathbybubba]

And I hope the employee got fired for such incompetance and trickery. What is up with people who work in the big box retail thinking they know so much about comptech.

 

[kenratboy]

What I would see making it more expensive would be something like, "5 years of unlimited, dedicated technical support 24/7/365" - any problem with the computer, ANYTHING, just call and they will make it happen. Something like that could easily add 5-10k to the price (having someone sitting in a office, next to a phone at 2 AM on Christmas Day) if you sold just a hundred or so computers.

But seems like a complex waste of parts. If I was going to burn that money, I would have a GAMING COMPUTER (with a 150 GB Raptor or two...or something) and then a server with a dozen TB of storage.

Putting it all in one box is like trying to cross a sports car with a SUV, you can never make it the same thing, just have two vehicles.

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

That thing must be sooo heavy...would anybody want to carry that to a LAN? Maybe part of the cost should be a hydraulic crane to move that thing from place to place.

 

[skyguy]

Ya, what a waste.

Build a $4,000 HOTROD rig, then take a trip to Europe, and put the rest as a downpayment on a house.

:roll:

 

[stefx]

NOOB!

WASTing my time, ur german site refers to a CAVERUN class IBM server

they weigh 180 pounds

i used to build them years ago.

PC_Side_line, did you run them at 1024x768? LOLLLL!

 

[proof]

lol :lol:

 

[Heyyou27]

NOOB!

WASTing my time, ur german site refers to a CAVERUN class IBM server

they weigh 180 pounds

i used to build them years ago.

PC_Side_line, did you run them at 1024x768? LOLLLL! :lol:

 

[Joe_The_Dragon]

But seems like a complex waste of parts. If I was going to burn that money, I would have a GAMING COMPUTER (with a 150 GB Raptor or two...or something) and then a server with a dozen TB of storage.

Raptor are only sata 1 sata 2 has things like NCQ that make it faster. also if you have the money use a hardware SAS setup.

 

[proof]

But seems like a complex waste of parts. If I was going to burn that money, I would have a GAMING COMPUTER (with a 150 GB Raptor or two...or something) and then a server with a dozen TB of storage.

Raptor are only sata 1 sata 2 has things like NCQ that make it faster. also if you have the money use a hardware SAS setup.

The Raptor X 150 is SATA II.

 

[deathbybubba]

The Raptor X 150 is SATA II.

Proof, can you show me proof of that, cuz everything I've seen on those drives say sata150

 

[proof]

Whoops. Nevermind. You were right. Sorry.

 

[Wonderwill]

And I hope the employee got fired for such incompetance and trickery. What is up with people who work in the big box retail thinking they know so much about comptech.

Arrggh don't remind me about the Office Depot retard that told customers Intel was better than AMD because the C2D was 2 Pentium Ds in the same chip...

 

[proof]

And I hope the employee got fired for such incompetance and trickery. What is up with people who work in the big box retail thinking they know so much about comptech.

Arrggh don't remind me about the Office Depot retard that told customers Intel was better than AMD because the C2D was 2 Pentium Ds in the same chip...

No way! NO WAY! That is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. He needs to be banned from ever touching a computer again.

 

[carver_g]

There is no way that should have costed $26,000. I could put together a PC for MUCH less than that and it would kick that $26,000 PCs' overpriced ass. And what about cooling? That mother ****** must put out a decent amount of heat...

I love posts like this. So you have a complete list of the hardware and have already added it up? Did you also factor in the cost of 24/7 Support? And you're prepared to hop on a plane and fly to the customer's location (at your expense) with replacement parts (at your expense) when something breaks? Oh, and don't forget about that liability insurance premium since you're now responsible for their data.

 

[proof]

...did I mention anything about selling it?

 

[tamalero]

the blue ray moron
the blueray burners cost above 1,000 US
unless sony already did a cheaper version...


so super high end mobo = 400-500 US
2 x clovertowns ( 999-1400 us each one )
4 GB BUFFERED RAM (100-200 per each GB? )
1000Kw power and cooling ( over 400 US )
and the paint of 1,000

 

[carver_g]

...did I mention anything about selling it?

Duh, if they weren't selling theirs, they wouldn't be charging themselves 26 large.

 

[deathbybubba]

...did I mention anything about selling it?

Duh, if they weren't selling theirs, they wouldn't be charging themselves 26 large.Did you read the article? They are giving it away :roll: and I don't recall anything in there mentioning 24/7 support either.

 

[proof]

...did I mention anything about selling it?

Duh, if they weren't selling theirs, they wouldn't be charging themselves 26 large.Did you read the article? They are giving it away :roll: and I don't recall anything in there mentioning 24/7 support either.

Whoop Whoop!

 

[carver_g]

...did I mention anything about selling it?

Duh, if they weren't selling theirs, they wouldn't be charging themselves 26 large.Did you read the article? They are giving it away :roll: and I don't recall anything in there mentioning 24/7 support either.

Whoop Whoop!

Oh, busted! My apologies.

It would be interesting though if you would compile a list of the components you would use to "put together a PC for MUCH less than that and it would kick that $26,000 PCs' overpriced ass" since you did bring it up.

 

[deathbybubba]

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Some SATA 1 HD's also feature NCQ. One example is Seagate's 7200.9 160 Gb HD (I have one). It does feature NCQ.

The 150 gb Raptors are SATA-II

Show me the spec that says so.

 

[Lodi]

Raptors X usually ship configured as SATA-1. they do, however, feature a jumper that enables the SATA-2 mode.

this is the documentation on the Jumper, from WD's site.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqi...405&amp

I don't see where that says you can get a Raptor to run at 3.0 Gb/s....I see that a 3.0Gb/s drive can be jumpered to run with boards that don't support that interface, but the Raptor specs seem to state that it has a max transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s....

Am I reading this incorrectly?

<Edited to correct spelling mistakes>