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SkoraSkora
edited February 2015 in Hardware
I was surfing around on Newegg and found an amazing deal on a pre-built LGA2011 build.

This will blow your mind.

What do you think of this?

Comments

  • allgoodnamesareusedallgoodnamesareused
    Wow!

    This PC (in £) cost the same as my Core i3 PC from 2012!

    Definitely worth it.
  • SkoraSkora
    allgoodnamesareused wrote:
    Wow!

    This PC (in £) cost the same as my Core i3 PC from 2012!

    Definitely worth it.

    The thing that really blows my mind is the CPU cooler; you could overclock this thing!
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I can build a better system for that price.
  • tattetatte
    TCPMeta wrote:
    I can build a better system for that price.
    Hear, hear!

    Still, it's better deal than all the ridiculously priced crap markets sell.
  • SkoraSkora
    TCPMeta wrote:
    I can build a better system for that price.

    How exactly would that be possible?
  • BlueSunBlueSun
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  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    i'll tell you what, i'll compile a list when I get some free time.
  • BODBOD
    I somehow doubt you'd be able to. The CPU and windows 8 pro come to 2/3 of the total price alone.
  • SkoraSkora
    BOD wrote:
    I somehow doubt you'd be able to. The CPU and windows 8 pro come to 2/3 of the total price alone.

    Exactly! My only real point of concern would probably be the power supply, OEM supplies have questionable reliability.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Well I'm a Linux guy and hate Windows 8 with a passion. Also I'm a AMD fan.

    This all came from Portatech LINK

    ASRock A55 Motherboard
    AMD APU A10 4 x 4.0GHz CPUs - plus 8 x Radeon R7 GPU
    Copper Heat-Pipe Heatsink
    8GB CRUCIAL DDR3 1600MHz Memory
    2TB SATA3 6gb/sec 7200RPM (64MB Cache) Hard Drive
    700W Power Supply w/ Active PFC
    nVidia Geforce GT740 - 2GB
    Reuse old PC ATX style case

    All together $627.74
    $2.25 cheaper $629.99.

    Now this is just taking five minutes out of my time tossing something together.
    Also you can compare the two different CPUs since I know this might start a AMD vs Intel thing that I don't want to start.
    LINK
  • BODBOD
    TCPMeta wrote:
    Well I'm a Linux guy and hate Windows 8 with a passion. Also I'm a AMD fan.

    This all came from Portatech LINK

    ASRock A55 Motherboard
    AMD APU A10 4 x 4.0GHz CPUs - plus 8 x Radeon R7 GPU
    Copper Heat-Pipe Heatsink
    8GB CRUCIAL DDR3 1600MHz Memory
    2TB SATA3 6gb/sec 7200RPM (64MB Cache) Hard Drive
    700W Power Supply w/ Active PFC
    nVidia Geforce GT740 - 2GB
    Reuse old PC ATX style case

    All together $627.74
    $2.25 cheaper $629.99.

    Now this is just taking five minutes out of my time tossing something together.
    Also you can compare the two different CPUs since I know this might start a AMD vs Intel thing that I don't want to start.
    LINK

    It's uncomparable, since you're missing out the case, optical drives, OS, and if the picture is correct, mouse and keyboard.

    There's not much that can compete with the bulk buying discounts major OEMs get.
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    It's a refurbished HP... of course it's going to be cheaper.

    But if you build an equivalent machine, you can source higher quality components and probably only wind up spending maybe $100-200 more.

    So it's a question of do you want to buy a machine you'll likely need to service within a year, maybe two? Or do you want to spend a little extra and have a machine that would easily last longer?
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Put it this way. 90% of us know how to build a computer and use them easily with out running into problems. We also have a cashe of extra parts such as cases, keyboards and mice. Also if you look I said "Reuse old PC ATX style case". Optical drives in my opinion are obsolete, including Blu-ray. Blu-ray is only good for movies and gaming consoles. For day to day use it's going to be either internal hard drive space or a jump drive, maybe LAN for local file copying.

    Also stated before I hate Win8 so chances are I would run Linux on it. Also this was only 5 minutes of tossing something together. If I took say a whole day I could build a complete system, case, optical drive, keyboard and mouse and probably Win8 (eeewwww) and still come out cheaper.

    As BlueSun said the HP is a refurb. You get for what you pay for. To me it's like buying a used system from ebay, it will be a 50-50 chance. Could work for a week, month or year then crap out. Not to mention HP has been crap since they merged with Compaq. They should just go back to the old days and make test equipment and data servers.
  • SkoraSkora
    TCPMeta wrote:
    Put it this way. 90% of us know how to build a computer and use them easily with out running into problems. We also have a cashe of extra parts such as cases, keyboards and mice. Also if you look I said "Reuse old PC ATX style case". Optical drives in my opinion are obsolete, including Blu-ray. Blu-ray is only good for movies and gaming consoles. For day to day use it's going to be either internal hard drive space or a jump drive, maybe LAN for local file copying.

    Also stated before I hate Win8 so chances are I would run Linux on it. Also this was only 5 minutes of tossing something together. If I took say a whole day I could build a complete system, case, optical drive, keyboard and mouse and probably Win8 (eeewwww) and still come out cheaper.

    As BlueSun said the HP is a refurb. You get for what you pay for. To me it's like buying a used system from ebay, it will be a 50-50 chance. Could work for a week, month or year then crap out. Not to mention HP has been crap since they merged with Compaq. They should just go back to the old days and make test equipment and data servers.

    That is true. The main issue I had with that HP (well, several) was the water cooler. Being a refurb, you wanna take bets on how long it would go without a leak?

    The only reason I shared this here was because I thought the specs were great for the price, clearly the CPU isn't everything.
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