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So never buy a high end computer, build it yourself.
by Scipio_Afri 7y ago
So never buy a high end computer, build it yourself.
- toasterlovin 7y agoIf you're doing something professionally that actually requires a $50k computer, your hourly rate is so insanely high that there's no way it makes financial sense to build and repair a computer like that on your own.
- stagger87 7y agoThe markup on these types of PC's is ~100%. If you needed to build even a few of these per year, the savings in buying the components yourself would pay for an employee to maintain them, (not even including the deep discount you could get negotiating prices on high end parts from a vendor). Not that you would even need a full time employee to maintain them...
- Scipio_Afri 7y agoThat was my point, the markup is insane for it to be $50k.
- mc32 7y agoPlus you want the 4-4hr warranty support for bad components. And with Dell you’re not paying full price as an ENT customer.
- SkyPuncher 7y agoI strongly disagree. 1. You're probably not building it yourself anyways (IT is probably doing it). 2. The difference between building A computer and building a $50k computer is trivial.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoNot true. We build our own desktop machines for computational work, lately using the 32-core Threadripper 2990wx and 64 GB ECC RAM, a couple 1TB M.2 SSDs and liquid cooling. Even increasing the amount of RAM to 1 TB, the total BOM for that comes to below $9k, and the performance is about the same as the $50k computers listed here. It takes you at most two days to fully assemble this machine. The breakeven then becomes an hourly rate of $2.5k.
- sydney6 7y agoFor this much money, i'd rather buy a system than parts.