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Old 02-02-2004, 04:50 PM
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Just curious Steve. What's the big rush?
no big rush starting to lookin to it. my computer I have no is no fun suz even my laptop is faster so i am starting to decide what to build. so far the AMD 64 is winning out. mind you I would never build a intell anyways so it will be some sort of AMD system at least.

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Old 02-02-2004, 05:11 PM
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I go AMD just because of the price. They may run hot and depending on the benchmarks are slower, but for hundreds of dollars cheaper...

Steve are you familiar with http://www.genericcomputer.bc.ca? I get a lot of my hardware there.
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Old 02-02-2004, 07:29 PM
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Any his sales are really good cheaper that i have found he is going to build me a PC for 1300 and the main price is around 3500 so you do the math
umm, that sounds too good to be true. i wanna see some specs.

anyways, back on topic. IMO, i wouldn't get an amd64 just yet. A lot of the newer technology which will be appearing this year isn't available yet. Mainly, 64bit windows, PCI Xpress, DDR2. another thing that bugs me is the pins they have. What was appealing about socket A was the same pin count starting from a few years back to even now. Upgrading mobos was a lot easier cuz you can always use the old cpu.

but if your pc is ailing for an upgrade, i guess go with it. however, i read from some place that a new case standard called btx is coming out soon, so i don't know how re-usable your parts will be once the the new standard comes out.
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just as a side note, computer hardware doesnt have a big margin - we are talking 3-5% on most items, several are sold at cost to get customers in the door.

When it comes to computer parts, I suggest buying from a company with an excellent return policy and intelligent staff as opposed to saving $2.50 on a strip of ram
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just as a side note, computer hardware doesnt have a big margin - we are talking 3-5% on most items, several are sold at cost to get customers in the door.
ram and memory has little profit but cpu's, drives, and other accesorys have a fair markup, I used to run my own computer store while I was posted ashore.

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ram and memory has little profit but cpu's, drives, and other accesorys have a fair markup, I used to run my own computer store while I was posted ashore.

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cpu's I am not sure about, altho I do not think they give much profit. My supplier and I have a really close relationship and he tells me that his profits come from the things like hard drive fans, case fans with led's in the, cathode tubes, fancy cases, funky cpu coolers, etc.. Basically the "accesories" that are impulse buys give him the majority of his profit. ram and drives right now are both pretty competitive, so his profit is low.

Or, so his story goes, as I have been bugging him for discounts on my hard drives (I have purchased 30 this month so far, at that kinda volume I expect a discount of some sort) and he says he cant do it. oh well, prices are low enough anyways
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Old 02-03-2004, 01:36 AM
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What are you paying for a 120 gig?
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discounts on my hard drives (I have purchased 30 this month so far
If you buy that much stuff, you should open an account with supercom and get wholesale pricing.
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Old 02-03-2004, 02:44 AM
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What are you paying for a 120 gig?
I just got one for 150ish but that was walking into a store and grabbing one of the shelf.

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Old 02-03-2004, 03:07 AM
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Yeah I am finding that generally a gig is worth about a buck.
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