Posted July 28, 200618 yr http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_single_product_results.phtml?product_id=243529 A $300 markup. That's not the chip i'm looking to buy. I'm looking to buy the E6600(Conroe). Most places are around $350 for the chip. I bet microcenter tries to sale it for $450. Everything is overpriced at Microcenter, beside your bargain 25 DVD-R for $9.99.
July 28, 200618 yr That's actually a really good chip; great for overclockability. It's expensive but I don't know how much it is elsewhere. I got my computer from Microcenter...If I remember correctly it was cheaper there than it was at other places. It would have been even cheaper if I wasn't too lazy to turn in my rebate info.
July 28, 200618 yr Yeah i hate rebates too. Other places are around the $1100 range or lower. But we alway us get burned if we buy locally. I sometimes goto the ComputerZoo up in Miamisburg. They have better prices than Microcenter. Compusa can be high too. We need a Frys here in Ohio. Oh my computer was bought at Microcenter also. One of their deals. It was a $87 CPU(celeron D 340 2.93 mhz) motherboard(Vt7) combo. But over all their prices are why higher than retail. I always build my own systems. Screw Dell.
July 28, 200618 yr For the last two systems I've built, I've bought quite a lot of hardware from Tiger Direct. Their prices haven't always been the rock-bottom lowest of all vendors, but their shipping is prompt and I always get exactly what I ordered, in good condition. With the rebates, the prices turn out pretty decent. I always price around, but I often end up going back to them. Rebates are a nuisance, but usually worth my time -- especially when I'm building a complete system.
July 28, 200618 yr Your desk looks just a smidge too tidy... like it is a showroom or something. You need to like turn the calculator on its side or something ;)
July 28, 200618 yr Your desk looks just a smidge too tidy... like it is a showroom or something. You need to like turn the calculator on its side or something ;) It doesn't look like any work is done there at all :)
July 28, 200618 yr I suspect the picture is from the moment right after the machine was set up...Rob, is your desk still that clean?
July 28, 200618 yr A lot of work is done there -- lots of Photoshop and quite a bit of word processing, spreadsheets and bookkeeping. The photo was taken immediately after setup, but after a recent cleanup,it looks almost that good again. The paperwork, coffee cups, donut bags, etc. had piled up to where they were starting to obstruct my view of the monitor, and I couldn't find some important documents, so I had to roll a bin up to the door and start shoveling.
July 28, 200618 yr The paperwork, coffee cups, donut bags, etc. had piled up to where they were starting to obstruct my view of the monitor, and I couldn't find some important documents, so I had to roll a bin up to the door and start shoveling. My mom would always nag me about cleaning my room when I was a kid and a young punk teenager - we filled the archetypical roles well in that regard - but dad's response was always much more staid and logical. He'd set a deadline, after which said he'd go in with a pitch fork and a wheelbarrow and solve the problem himself. Yeah, that was pretty much all it took to convince me to handle the issue myself!
July 28, 200618 yr I LOVE Microcenter. I usually always find the best deals there ... considering I do not have to wait for or pay for shipping. Although, I just bought a 1GB SO-DIMM chip from Newegg.com and saved almost half on the cost ($69.99).
July 30, 200618 yr Now they came back in line with everyone else. I guess they didn't sale any at $1300, now they dropped the price $150. http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_single_product_results.phtml?product_id=243529
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