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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha
As a manufacturer you have to come up with products to keep sales turning over , be it re-badged video cards or multi GPU's, SLI or Crossfire its all designed to do one thing.....................part you with your hard earned cash.
I have built and sold all the above PC's and the customers have been very happy with their new "Rigs".
Until they read some GPU fan site claiming the next and best greatest thing, I then repeat above process customer goes away happy.......again.
Problem is they are individually not seeing the "big picture" the cheaper systems I make that run with exactly the same performance as they are number hunters and want very specific parts they have been told are the latest and greatest.
Its simply not true.
Hardware hits a peak then its going to be quite a while until the nest major difference hardware hits the market, meantime there's releases of minor hardware with claims of "this is the new must have" simply to keep creating sales.
You have to look hard these days to cut through the sales and fanboi site stuff to find the hardware at the right specification and price.
Believe it or not some of my customers have bought hardware because it just looked cool  |
I have to agree with what your'e saying here, during the spring/summer this year I worked at a well-known PC retailer here in Finland. I don't know how many rigs I assembled but I can tell you this, the rigs that where giving me most the grief when I was testing/stressing the hardware (we had to do that before delivery of course) were the ones with expensive high-end hardware. The Asus Formula IV mobo for example failed on many tests, maybe every third PC I assembled with this mobo had some kind of a problem. So I had to check each part of the rigs individually and most of the time it was the mobo or the GPU (mostly nvidia high-end GPU) that was failing. The most reliable rigs were the low-mid range PC:s, I could almost assemble them blindfolded and they would go through all the tests without a hitch.
Many times we also had to contact customers -wich had ordered parts for us to assemble- that some of the parts that they had choosen were incompatible or that the PSU was too weak for the GPU they had choosen etc. Some people just have no clue about hardware, midi atx mobo in micro atx, AM3 cpu in AM2 socket, 6GB RAM with 32-bit win7 and on and on it goes LOL!