Computer Science Canada

Can You Say Ripoff?

Author:  Maverick [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:03 pm ]
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Ok here it is my bad

Author:  templest [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:10 pm ]
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What the hell are you talking about? No links? Or is this an inside thing? Confused

Author:  Paul [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:55 pm ]
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ech... the printer seemed cheap, but the keyboard and mouse ...

Author:  Amailer [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:03 pm ]
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Paul wrote:
ech... the printer seemed cheap, but the keyboard and mouse ...


Expensive! You can get that alot cheaper at 'future shop' Rolling Eyes

Author:  Dan [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:53 pm ]
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LOL, my alineware laptop was cheapter then that amd one.

Author:  templest [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:37 pm ]
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Hey, I spent nearly $7k on mine. So concidering the spec's difference on the two boxes, you got one hell of a deal.

Author:  Dan [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:39 pm ]
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wate a sec thats a PC??????????? i thougth it was a laptop, holy crap that is a rip off.

Edit: opps i think i was looking at the wrong line, i thougth it cost 10k Razz 2k whould be about right for that pc

Edit2: WTF shiping is 6k???? ROFL, i think some one has been editing this pic.

Author:  Maverick [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:33 pm ]
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Nope no editing here. Razz

Author:  Paul [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:34 pm ]
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6k shipping? rofl, where'd u shipping it? to Osama?

Author:  Maverick [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:02 pm ]
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lol

30 minutes from niagara falls in canada

Author:  Dan [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:33 pm ]
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Maverick wrote:
lol

30 minutes from niagara falls in canada


did you like make them get the guy to walk there by going aorund the world or somting? lol

Author:  templest [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:43 pm ]
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You notice that's a drop down box? I bet he chose the most expensive option just to screw around. I don't think anyone would pay that. It's probably to get a private -- armoured? -- jet so that it arives at your door step 10 minutes after making your online purchase or something. If you really need it that quickly. Confused I'unno.

Author:  Maverick [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:45 pm ]
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ummm actually that was the cheapest price ktnx. The most expensive was 7100

Author:  Genesis [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:25 pm ]
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Shipping to Niagara Falls on a $165 dollar Seagate HD was only $10 for me. With UPS World Ship CA. So how yours got to be $6000 I don't know. Confused

Author:  Catalyst [ Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:29 pm ]
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seems to work now (entered same info)

Author:  Maverick [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:08 pm ]
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Ya now its 450 ina truck Very Happy

Author:  Martin [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:55 pm ]
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Hmm...I want an Itanium II, but tigerdirect doesn't sell them Sad

Author:  Genesis [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:01 pm ]
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Get a Xeon.

Author:  apomb [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:09 pm ]
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arent Xeons just for servers, and what exactly is the clock speed of one of those?

Author:  wtd [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:57 pm ]
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Note: The Itanium architecture is completely different from that of x86 processors (Pentium, Athlon, etc).

You can judge the speed of such a system from a usual Windows or Linux on a PC perspective.

The Itanium does floating point ridiculously fast, and typically Itanium machines have incredible system bandwidth. They tend to do better with tasks which are relatively linear.

Author:  Maverick [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:17 pm ]
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www.savrow.com

for the best comps in the world, hes a comp they quoted for me.

Bespoke SavRow System:
SavRow Deuterium

Advanced Processors:
Performance Tuned AMD64 3800+

Motherboard:
ABIT AV8 Motherboard

Memory Solutions
Light : 1GB PC-4200 - Dual DDR SDRAM - Quantity 2

Operating System
Business Class : Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro

SavRow HeatSeekerâ„¢ Cooling System
HeatSeekerâ„¢ X2

Advanced Disk Controllers
3Ware Escalade 8506-4LP

Hard Drives - Primary
Sub-Light : Raptor 74GB SATA - Quantity 2

Hard Drives - Secondary
First Class : 250GB SATA - Quantity 2

Optical Storage - Primary
First Class: Plextor PX-712A

Optical Storage - Secondary
First Class : Premium CD-ReWriter

Audio Visual Options

Sound Card
Supersonic : THX & Dolby Digital Certified 7.1 Surround Sound - External


Audio Speakers
Supersonic : Creative GigaWorks THX® 7.1 700Watt

Graphics Processing Unit
Light : NVIDIA 6800 Ultra 256MB - LIMITED QUANTITY

Monitor
Supersonic : Iiyama 20.1" TFT E511S-Black *NEW*


Other System Options

Keyboard
First Class : Cordless Keyboard and Mouse

Additional Modems
Netgear DG834G Wireless ADSL Modem & Router

Printer
Canon Bubble Jet i865 Printer

Office Software
Business Class : Microsoft Office Professional 2003

Anti-Virus Software
McAfee AntiVirus 2004

SavRow Options

Paint
SavRow Pre-Defined Paints [Ferrari301]

SavRow Service

SavRow Client Access
SavRowClient.com Email and Forums

Service Options
Business Class : 1 year

Delivery
TNT Express UK Mainland Delivery

Total: £5497.97 (£6460.11 inc VAT)

Author:  wtd [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:20 pm ]
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If you're getting all of that, go for dual monitors, or hold out for a 30" Apple Cinema Display. Smile

Author:  Dan [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:28 pm ]
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How much is that in CND?

Author:  wtd [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:33 pm ]
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$4,699

Plus you need the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL Card. Not sure if you can get one for x86 PCs. Basically, it pushes 2 DVI signals through a single DVI port. The card has two ports, so it can support two of these behemoths.

Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.

Their 20" display is the "small" one in that picture. Smile

Author:  Genesis [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:55 pm ]
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CompWiz333 wrote:
arent Xeons just for servers, and what exactly is the clock speed of one of those?


Ya mostly. But so are Itaniums. Doesn't mean you can't use them for other applications. Though I hear that AMD's Opteron processor is better when it comes to this category. Although I'm not a big fan of AMD, so I'd buy Intel.

Here's a good site that has a lot of information and a bunch of benchmarks for different applications with different processors. (Though I'm pretty sure they were all done with a Xeon at 1.7 GHz, and if I'm not mistaken they come in up to 3.60 GHz)

Author:  Maverick [ Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:56 pm ]
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Hacker Dan wrote:
How much is that in CND?


ummm,sry,my,space,bar,is,broken

I,think,it,wuld,be,over,12000,or,so

Author:  Dan [ Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:38 pm ]
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Then that whould be a rip off as well, if u are talking about that pc you posted about.


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