Thing of beauty.

Link works for me, but I think nline means the link is invalid because this is too good to be true lol
 
Yeah, I was going to say, thats really not that great of a system lol. But, its a good sale if you got an appropriate mark-up
 
That computer uses some of the worst quality components on the market. Probably a $35 600watt power supply. I could build that for probably around $800. $1400 is an insane margin. I suppose they think with margins like that they can afford to replace the adata SSD if it fails within the 1 YEAR WARRANTY.
 
This guy surfs the web and gets email. His current pc is a HP with an older I7 and 8gig mem.

I tried to talk him out of it, He did not need it. I stop building a few years ago and this is the 4th ABS I have sold in about 3yrs. None have had issues. The other 3 are getting a workout by gamers.
 
I just did a similar build for a client :)

CASE – Corsair Carbide Series Spec-01 Mid Tower Gaming Case
M/Board- Gigabyte H170-HD3 Socket LGA1151 ATX Motherboard - DDR4
CPU - Intel Core i7 6700 3.4 GHz Quad Core CPU LGA 1151
PSU- Coolermaster GX750 750W 80+ Bronze Power Supply - CM Storm Edition
HDD- Western Digital 2TB Black 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
SSD- Intel 540s Series 240GB SSD
MEMORY- Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2400MHz RAM - Black
GFX - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Overclocked 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
O/S - Windows 10 x64 Pro OEM with DVD
 
JoeTech said:
While it's not exactly state of the art, I would rather work on this system then the usual $300 walmart laptop people keep bringing in.
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Have you ever worked on a computer that was built with the absolute cheapest crap you can buy? Systemic failure is common. You have to do very detailed diagnostics because usually there are 3 or 4 things going wrong with it at one time. Or better yet, the power supply goes and takes out an expensive graphics card or the motherboard. Then after you "fix" it, EVERYTHING else that starts to go wrong with it (because every freaking part is a cheapo piece of crap) is all your fault. No thanks. I'll take a $300 Walmart special laptop any day.
 
I got one on Wednesday. Custom build with a crappy 400w Rosewill power supply. Burned up a resistor and probably several other components when that one let go. That was a 1 watt resistor. Smoked.
 
In the 20 years I've been in business, I've personally built around 150 computers, from absolute base spec to high end "Gaming Rigs," built to my customers requirements. They knew before any build exactly what they were going to get!
In the first years I used "PCChips" motherboards, Graphics cards etc, $10 PSU's (from the "Happy Sunshine Apple Blossom Company of Taiwan!), the cheapest ram I could find and Maxtor HDD's etc in the low priced units.
Mid to high end got Alwill, DFI, Abit, Soltek, MSI and a few other mobo's. I used $30-$50 PSU's and Corsair or Kingston Ram.
None of my customers ever overclocked, or were even interested in overclocking their computer!
I always tried to inform the client on the value of a "high end" PSU, especially for a gaming box.
Now I build only with ASUS or Gigabyte boards, (ASUS only in gaming rigs), ASUS or Gigabyte VDC's, Kingston or Transcend SSD,s Corsair or Kingston Ram and $80 PSU's! People will not pay for good PSU's no matter what you say!
Long story short, in that time I can honestly say that I have had one PCChips motherboard replacement, (after about 3 years trouble free!)
maybe a couple of VDC's, again after fairly reasonable service life, and the main one: only about 5 "el cheapo" PSU's, but still well after the warranty had expired! I've never replaced a PSU in a gaming box that I built!
I have, however, replaced a "high end" EVGA PSU for a client that had his computer built elsewhere.
I've never had to replace any component during the warranty period, apart from a failed OCZ SSD in a (mid range) game machine this week!
I've even traded some of my builds in after 3~5 years of trouble free (hardware side) computing and resold them to others that in many cases are still using them, even though some of them are up to 10 years old!
This is my own personal experience and I know that there are many horror stories out there. I've just been lucky I guess!
I am an avid "gamer" myself and my "gaming rig" is about 6 years old with a $70 "Penguin" 650 watt PSU!
If your interested in the other specs they are: AMD X6 1090T, 16GB "off the shelf" Corsair Ram, S/H Gigabyte 750Ti (from a trade in 2 years ago), 2TB WD "Red" (also about 2 years old from a trade in) and a Gigabyte Mobo, (forgot which one now!) Works fine for me!
Plays any game I throw at it includeing the new DOOM with settings on medium to high.
Never once given me trouble! (Apart from once overheating due to the stock CPU cooler being clogged with dust)
 
Barcelona said:
In the 20 years I've been in business, I've personally built around 150 computers, from absolute base spec to high end "Gaming Rigs," built to my customers requirements. They knew before any build exactly what they were going to get!
In the first years I used "PCChips" motherboards, Graphics cards etc, $10 PSU's (from the "Happy Sunshine Apple Blossom Company of Taiwan!), the cheapest ram I could find and Maxtor HDD's etc in the low priced units.
Mid to high end got Alwill, DFI, Abit, Soltek, MSI and a few other mobo's. I used $30-$50 PSU's and Corsair or Kingston Ram.
None of my customers ever overclocked, or were even interested in overclocking their computer!
I always tried to inform the client on the value of a "high end" PSU, especially for a gaming box.
Now I build only with ASUS or Gigabyte boards, (ASUS only in gaming rigs), ASUS or Gigabyte VDC's, Kingston or Transcend SSD,s Corsair or Kingston Ram and $80 PSU's! People will not pay for good PSU's no matter what you say!
Long story short, in that time I can honestly say that I have had one PCChips motherboard replacement, (after about 3 years trouble free!)
maybe a couple of VDC's, again after fairly reasonable service life, and the main one: only about 5 "el cheapo" PSU's, but still well after the warranty had expired! I've never replaced a PSU in a gaming box that I built!
I have, however, replaced a "high end" EVGA PSU for a client that had his computer built elsewhere.
I've never had to replace any component during the warranty period, apart from a failed OCZ SSD in a (mid range) game machine this week!
I've even traded some of my builds in after 3~5 years of trouble free (hardware side) computing and resold them to others that in many cases are still using them, even though some of them are up to 10 years old!
This is my own personal experience and I know that there are many horror stories out there. I've just been lucky I guess!
I am an avid "gamer" myself and my "gaming rig" is about 6 years old with a $70 "Penguin" 650 watt PSU!
If your interested in the other specs they are: AMD X6 1090T, 16GB "off the shelf" Corsair Ram, S/H Gigabyte 750Ti (from a trade in 2 years ago), 2TB WD "Red" (also about 2 years old from a trade in) and a Gigabyte Mobo, (forgot which one now!) Works fine for me!
Plays any game I throw at it includeing the new DOOM with settings on medium to high.
Never once given me trouble! (Apart from once overheating due to the stock CPU cooler being clogged with dust)
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I can tell you this. Junk, low quality parts were a LOT higher quality in the 90's and early 2000's than today's junk, low quality parts. We've built thousands upon thousands of custom builds, and invariably when someone insists we throw in a junk part, it fails prematurely. We refuse to do that nowadays. The absolute cheapest custom we build nowadays is around $1,000. We get so many gamers that built their own computer only to have it blow up 3 months later because they used some shoddy part to save money, or cheaped out on the power supply so they could go with 32GB of ram rather than 16GB.

There is a HUGE difference in quality between a cheapo adata $42 SSD and an Samsung 850 EVO for $95. The Samsung EVO 850's have a 0.03% annual failure rate. That's 8 TIMES more reliable than an Intel processor. How many dead processors have you seen in your time? I can count how many I've seen on 2 hands. It's scary the quality of these things. It's a good thing HP and Dell will never put in good quality parts like that, otherwise I'd be out of a job!

There's a reason why junk, low quality parts have a 1 YEAR WARRANTY. Diablotek (cheap a$$ PSU manufacturer) doesn't even answer their warranty hotline.
 
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Core i7 6700K - $320
GTX 970 - $250
SSD - $80
16 GB DDR4 - $66
Motherboard - $80
Case - $60
PSU - $40 ?
Optical $20

Comes out to right around $1000 even with a legit copy of windows 10.

$400 margin on a setup like this, that you may have 4-6 hours into, is
bordering on the "being worth" it line for a lot of shop owners.


The only down fall is that others have stated, some of these parts aren't
that great.
 
Mine was built to clients specs and budget - is more than wrapped with it, maxes out everyhing in Ultra Settings in games. The parts I suppilied are those I trust and are very good for the mid range gaming pc. We all cant afford a $600+ CPU, $700.00 MB and $1,000 GFX card.
 
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frase said:
Mine was built to clients specs and budget - is more than wrapped with it, maxes out everyhing in Ultra Settings in games. The parts I suppilied are those I trust and are very good for the mid range gaming pc. We all cant afford a $600+ CPU, $700.00 MB and $1,000 GFX card.
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I agree. If we could we wouldn't be having this discussion!
 
sapphirescales said:
Have you ever worked on a computer that was built with the absolute cheapest crap you can buy? Systemic failure is common. You have to do very detailed diagnostics because usually there are 3 or 4 things going wrong with it at one time. Or better yet, the power supply goes and takes out an expensive graphics card or the motherboard. Then after you "fix" it, EVERYTHING else that starts to go wrong with it (because every freaking part is a cheapo piece of crap) is all your fault. No thanks. I'll take a $300 Walmart special laptop any day.
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Don't know where you or your clients get parts but I don't have the these problems.
sapphirescales said:
We've built thousands upon thousands of custom builds
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Man! You must be busy!
 
Porthos said:
This guy surfs the web and gets email. His current pc is a HP with an older I7 and 8gig mem.

I tried to talk him out of it, He did not need it. I stop building a few years ago and this is the 4th ABS I have sold in about 3yrs. None have had issues. The other 3 are getting a workout by gamers.
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A GTX1070 and 6700K for e-mail.....<sigh!> :) (He should at least go buy and Doom to get his money's worth, just to avoid having wasted $450-ish of the money!)
 
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