Outrageously priced items

[asickduckie]

LOL is this a joke? I was browsing computers on craigslist and came across this guy selling an old POS HP and one of the first pics he posted was this :\

 

[asickduckie]

You have got to be kidding me,  I just found this:

3900$ for some old 4 year old xeons, 6gb of ram, a generic 1tb hard drive and a *drumroll* AMD 5570! Oh I forgot. That "superdrive" is worth a ton of money because apple put the word super in front of it (in reality it's just a regular ass dvd drive with nothing special)

 

[jscho]

Everything tech in Australia is ridiculously priced. Reference GTX780 is $700. FFS a song on iTunes is $1.69 or $2.19 

 

The conversion rate between USD and AUD does make a significant difference. Then there's the import costs. It's slightly more in price but it's not bad when you put that into consideration. AU$700 (at the moment) is equal to ~US$625. $75 difference and it's only because of currency exchange rates.

[paulsterio]

Everything tech in Australia is ridiculously priced. Reference GTX780 is $700. FFS a song on iTunes is $1.69 or $2.19 

 

No it's not, you can find ones for $600, where are you shopping?

 

Hmm, 4960X is probably one of the most ridiculous. 

[Antistatic12]

Intel 3970X..........oh wait.. D'OH :lol:

Outrageous priced items. Some Super/Hyper/Ultra cars. I am so glad the Nissan GTR R35 is actually in the realm of possibility for most people. It is still expensive but at least possibly if a long term saving goal.

Some Fast food is pretty outrageous.

Collectible cards. Pikachu illustrator promo card for $100,000.

Linus's hair.

Old baseball Cards.

Housing. Can a house and tennis court/pool...etc really be worth $20/30/40/50 million $$. House prices are just insane some times.

I know that in some countries internet prices are so outrageous it would seem criminal to you or I.

[ChillKyle]

Stuff at best buy

[Bluethulhu]

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[YoJoe360]

I bought my GTX 780 DCUII OC for 805$ usd

[asickduckie]

At least the specs are pretty top of the line for that laptop. That mac pro with the 5570 and 6gb of ram however.. not so sure.

[Nineshadow]

 Titan.

[jezza39]

No it's not, you can find ones for $600, where are you shopping?

Hmm, 4960X is probably one of the most ridiculous.

PC Case Gear, I need a reference one for a sff build, the $600 open cooler galaxy's would be useless

[paulsterio]

PC Case Gear, I need a reference one for a sff build, the $600 open cooler galaxy's would be useless

 

Ahh, I see the problem. I was looking at the Galaxy and even the Gigabyte Windforce one. Even SSF though, you'll still get better performance by going with an open air cooler for the GPU. Yes, it dumps hot air in your case, but you can redirect the air flow out and have fresh air flow over your CPU. What sort of config were you going after?

[KamiKatze]

Not particularly overpriced, but you gotta wonder, why some GTX 770s cost more than entry level GTX 780s or 780s more than entry level 780 Ti's.

[jezza39]

Ahh, I see the problem. I was looking at the Galaxy and even the Gigabyte Windforce one. Even SSF though, you'll still get better performance by going with an open air cooler for the GPU. Yes, it dumps hot air in your case, but you can redirect the air flow out and have fresh air flow over your CPU. What sort of config were you going after?

Cubitek like the Linus titan build. It's also annoying that the acx edition cards are $10 cheaper on pcpartpicker. Might make do with a 770

[paulsterio]

Cubitek like the Linus titan build. It's also annoying that the acx edition cards are $10 cheaper on pcpartpicker. Might make do with a 770

 

Oh, you should be fine with an open air cooler, e.g. Gigabyte Windforce. 

 

Use an AIO for the CPU, e.g. a Corsair H60 (thin radiator) and a short PSU and you should be able to fit it down the bottom drawing fresh air in. That should keep both your CPU and GPU cool. It's not a big deal either way, because even if you were to use a standard air cooler, I would put an intake fan in the 90mm fan mount drawing fresh air over the CPU cooler. 

 

Just go with an open air design rather than a reference, no point spending more money for nothing.