Fair price?

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:09 pm

If you were buying a computer not for gaming, just office internet, iTunes, and digital photos and were a cheap bastard would you consider this a fair price?

I think I went too cheap :/

$366.00

AMD Sempron 2500+ 1.7GHz
512mb pc 3200 ram
40 GIG drive
CD-RW
Mid tower with 480watt PSU
10/100 Lan
Linksys Wireless PCI
5.1 channel audo with front audio and USB
Windows XP Home

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:11 pm

I'd get a sata drive if u can...?
makes hell of a difference for a few more bucks

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:20 pm

no it doesn't. almost no difference at all.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:23 pm

FYI System is built and awaiting pickup, the MOBO has SATA headers already for future upgrades.

Also $366 was over his budget

a little more would have broke the bank

He just pissed me off a little with some of his actions...

Like the cost was 366.69 and he wrote me a check for $365.00. Then he says cant you throw in one of these cool keyboards and laser mouse pointing to the ones on my desk costing more than his whole PC.

If I didn't sell him my old used stuff in a new case I would feel a little pissed

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:49 pm

If I had a keyboard and mouse worth more than $365, I'd top myself... unless it was a keyboard that had key with individual OLED displays

Post by **Chupacabra** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:07 pm

you obviously didnt pay a fair price for your laser mouse and cool keyboard

Post by **S@M** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:25 pm

Giraffe }{unter wrote:
He just pissed me off a little with some of his actions...
Like the cost was 366.69 and he wrote me a check for $365.00.
If I didn't sell him my old used stuff in a new case I would feel a little pissed

sounds like a tosser; was he a "mate" who thought you would not mind or something

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:31 pm

Sounds like you've got too much PSU for that system. And do you really need a wireless NIC?

You might have cut a few bucks off the price.

Post by **Booger** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:50 pm

Giraffe }{unter wrote:If you were buying a computer not for gaming, just office internet, iTunes, and digital photos and were a cheap bastard would you consider this a fair price?

I think I went too cheap :/

$366.00

AMD Sempron 2500+ 1.7GHz
512mb pc 3200 ram
40 GIG drive
CD-RW
Mid tower with 480watt PSU
10/100 Lan
Linksys Wireless PCI
5.1 channel audo with front audio and USB
Windows XP Home

Is that delivered ?
I'll take one.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:06 am

S@M wrote:
sounds like a tosser; was he a "mate" who thought you would not mind or something

no, just some dude at work. 3 years ago I sole hime an
AMD K6-2 500MHz
256mb ram
SB Live
Voodoo 3
20 Gig drive
Windows 2k
Office 2k
For about $300

Gave him support every 6 monts to a year, which wasn't bad total of like 10 hours work over 3 years time and replaced one PSU for free since I had it laying around.

He came and asked for something faster and I wanted to get rid of my sempron and upgrade so I made the deal. Like I said I sold him my 1 year old mobo and processor that I bought for $89.00 put it in a shiny new case, got some other parts I had laying around, shined them up and blamo instant $366.00 system.

There was no other way I could hook the poor guy up for that cheap, but I con't believe I actually felt bad for him at first.

YourGrandpa wrote:Sounds like you've got too much PSU for that system. And do you really need a wireless NIC?

You might have cut a few bucks off the price.

Done to his needs, he really needed a wireless NIC and I got the PSU and the Case for $45.00 so I am guessing it's really not that much PSU

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:47 am

YourGrandpa wrote:Sounds like you've got too much PSU for that system. And do you really need a wireless NIC?

You might have cut a few bucks off the price.

to much psu?

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:51 am

riddla wrote:
MidnightQ4 wrote:no it doesn't. almost no difference at all.
wow, you really are full of shit in every post.

care to back that up?

an SATA drive in that guy's system is not going to improve performance to ANY appreciable degree vs an equivalent PATA drive.

go ahead, prove me wrong jackass.

feel free to peruse this list of drives, a mixture of PATA and SATA which all have similar performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/14/ ... page5.html

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:52 am

who gives a shit? it's a hard drive

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:55 am

You should've recommended him to wait for quantum computers...

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:56 am

MidnightQ4 wrote:
riddla wrote:
MidnightQ4 wrote:no it doesn't. almost no difference at all.
wow, you really are full of shit in every post.
care to back that up?

an SATA drive in that guy's system is not going to improve performance to ANY appreciable degree vs an equivalent PATA drive.

go ahead, prove me wrong jackass.

piddla is an idiot.. just ignore him

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:05 am

ok well i just proved it. see my edits to my previous post.

kthxbye.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:21 am

SOAPboy wrote:
YourGrandpa wrote:Sounds like you've got too much PSU for that system. And do you really need a wireless NIC?

You might have cut a few bucks off the price.

to much psu?

WTF are you laughing at? He said he was trying to build a cheap computer. The specs he listed wouldn't come near to needing a 480watt PSU. Since a 300watt PSU would be cheaper, I made the suggestion of too much PSU.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:21 am

lol, don't talk yourself up so much bro. I don't care if the interface is 1TB/s it isn't going to matter if the drive is only spitting out data at 60 MB/s.

You sir are the fucking idiot. It's common knowledge that the performance gain of SATA is is not realized by 1 single drive which doesn't even max out a 100MB/s Ultra ATA connection. Everyone knows this. Stop being so high and mighty, your ass is owned just admit it.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:25 am

riddla wrote:I would get technical with you about bandwidth, crosstalk, error detection, command queuing, voltage consumption, etc but your hick ass wouldn't understand.

NONE of which are going to improve that system to a degree that someone could tell a difference.

SATA is fine and dandy, and will be great in a couple years when storage media can utilize it better, or if you use very fast drives or RAID, but for this system it just isn't going to help at all. Stop now while you're behind.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:28 am

riddla wrote:Typical ignorant response. Performance means much more than just data transfer you tool.

Why are you being such a pompous dickhead?

Why do you assume that I don't know about the performance characteristics of hard drives?

Just because I posted one link to back up my claim don't delude yourself into thinking that I know nothing else about this shit you moron. I'm just not going to spend more time than that to prove you wrong, which I already did. So ya crawl back into your hole and die.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:29 am

riddla wrote:wrong.

Nice proof assmunch. I'm done here.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:29 am

riddla wrote:jellus?

Of?

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:30 am

riddla wrote:crushed...

yes your ego is crushed, sorry about that.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:32 am

riddla wrote: Is 150MB/s (SATA) a faster transfer rate than 100MB/s (ATA100) or 133MB/s (ATA133)?

Typical ignorant response. Performance means much more than just data transfer you tool.

way to slam your own arguement.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:33 am

riddla wrote:One of us knows of what they speak.

Hint: it isn't you.

my e-penis is bigger than your e-penis :icon32:

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