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Dafuq is a 10700f doing with a 1660ti?

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Dafuq is a 10700f doing with a 1660ti?

yup.... one of many questions running through my mind

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cmon, they could have at least put an NVME SSD in, if not a better GPU. For that price I would be expecting an 8TB HDD on top of that too!

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Crap quality stuff,

Bye bye air-flow! (blocked by glass)

They usually use parts like these:

Motherboard: so cheap it doesn't even have heatsinks for the VRMs!

RAM: 2400MHz CL18

SSD: DRAM-less QLC

HDD: 5400 RPM

Wi-Fi: Cheapest Wi-Fi card

PSU: Fire hazard on the way!

 

You welcome!,It's even more waste of money then you initially taught.

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Just now, RTX 3090 said:

cmon, they could have at least put an NVME SSD in, if not a better GPU. For that price I would be expecting an 8TB HDD on top of that too!

Same. For 1200 I expected so much more. I BEGGED them to let me put a build together for them... They went with this instead...

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Just now, Vishera said:

Crap quality stuff,

Bye bye air-flow! (blocked by glass)

They usually use parts like these:

Motherboard: so cheap it doesn't even have heatsinks for the VRMs!

RAM: 2400MHz CL18

SSD: DRAM-less QLC

HDD: 5400 RPM

Wi-Fi: Cheapest Wi-Fi card

 

You welcome!,It's even more waste of money then you initially taught.

Thanks. Man I wish theyd listen to me... Oh well they obviously have plenty of disposable income...

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It's only badly priced if we're allowed to:

- ignore current graphics card pricing

- assume this combination of parts would be worse than - for example - an R5/i5 + higher end graphics card  (as some people do need the CPU more than the GPU)

- ignore the warranty, handling, building, etc. of the PC.

 

Making your own PC even if the pricing on graphics cards was normal isn't much cheaper:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i7-10700F 2.9 GHz 8-Core Processor $279.00 @ B&H
CPU Cooler be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 35.14 CFM CPU Cooler $31.30 @ Amazon
Motherboard ASRock B460 Pro4 ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $151.76 @ Amazon
Memory OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $67.99 @ Newegg
Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $34.99 @ Western Digital
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $55.49 @ Newegg
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB GAMING X Video Card $694.77 @ Amazon
Case Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case $94.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $79.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1490.27
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-25 17:38 EST-0500  

This isn't a build I would recommend, but sort of equal to the PC you linked and it would only be cheaper if the graphics card was actually available.

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Just now, PhoenixFire22588 said:

Thanks. Man I wish theyd listen to me... Oh well they obviously have plenty of disposable income...

Yeah,I even added this!:

2 minutes ago, Vishera said:

PSU: Fire hazard on the way!

 

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9 minutes ago, minibois said:

It's only badly priced if we're allowed to:

- ignore current graphics card pricing

- assume this combination of parts would be worse than - for example - an R5/i5 + higher end graphics card  (as some people do need the CPU more than the GPU)

- ignore the warranty, handling, building, etc. of the PC.

 

Making your own PC even if the pricing on graphics cards was normal isn't much cheaper:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i7-10700F 2.9 GHz 8-Core Processor $279.00 @ B&H
CPU Cooler be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 35.14 CFM CPU Cooler $31.30 @ Amazon
Motherboard ASRock B460 Pro4 ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $151.76 @ Amazon
Memory OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $67.99 @ Newegg
Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $34.99 @ Western Digital
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $55.49 @ Newegg
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB GAMING X Video Card $694.77 @ Amazon
Case Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case $94.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $79.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1490.27
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-25 17:38 EST-0500  

This isn't a build I would recommend, but sort of equal to the PC you linked and it would only be cheaper if the graphics card was actually available.

I would buy something like this (but the graphics card in a different place) :

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $194.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $114.99 @ Best Buy
Memory OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $67.99 @ Newegg
Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $99.99 @ Adorama
Case Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 ARGB ATX Mid Tower Case $74.99 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair RMx (2018) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $144.99 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $707.94
  Mail-in rebates -$10.00
  Total $697.94
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-25 17:49 EST-0500  

 

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its an absolutely shyte pick.. but it's basicly on par with expectations from the acers and dells of this world, except this has more rainbow puke and cooling-inhibiting glass.

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42 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Dafuq is a 10700f doing with a 1660ti?

That was the MO of basically every prebuilt company in the 2010s. Pair a high end CPU with a low end GPU and charge as if the GPU was also high end.

 

Luckily as PC gaming boomed, people caught on and the practice became less common, but obviously it still happens.

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10 minutes ago, Shoopman said:

That was the MO of basically every prebuilt company in the 2010s. Pair a high end CPU with a low end GPU and charge as if the GPU was also high end.

 

Luckily as PC gaming boomed, people caught on and the practice became less common, but obviously it still happens.

Tbh this is the high end of what is available on the market from what I have seen. Graphics cards are simply out of stock almost across the board. 

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