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Heh, me too. Also, I just discovered http://pcpartpicker.com/ http://pcpartpicker.com/ yesterday. Looks pretty cool. I might do my research there and buy on Ama
by luser001 14y ago
Heh, me too. Also, I just discovered http://pcpartpicker.com/ http://pcpartpicker.com/ yesterday. Looks pretty cool. I might do my research there and buy on Amazon. I might feel a little less guilty. :) The restocking fee policy (which screams "shady retailer" to me) on Newegg is only reason I stopped shopping there.
OTOH, Newegg seems to have a much larger catalog of tech items than Amazon.
Also the search feature on Amazon is quite bad: try searching for '16 gb ram' and sort by price. It will insist on showing you 2 gb packs also.
Everything except the default sort order sucks. Which doesn't inspire confidence that Amazon isn't listing the items with the highest margins on top.
- slig 14y ago> http://pcpartpicker.com/ http://pcpartpicker.com/ Built by an HNer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123
- acgourley 14y agoI love pcpartpicker. It's great to see someone reverse engineering the pc part sales cycle. The fact it helps people communicate complete builds and see compatibility between parts is a nice feature too
- pcarmichael 14y agoThanks, Alex. I've really appreciated the feedback and encouragement you've given me.
- talmand 14y agoI discovered the site because of this thread. Big thanks as I just picked up an I5-3570K with a $60 discount.
- pcarmichael 14y agoOut of curiosity, how did you hear about pcpartpicker? (I created it, so I'm always interested to know how people find out about it. Hope you find it useful!)
- thesis 14y agoNice website! Do you have any plans to add server hardware to the lists?
- pcarmichael 14y agoDefinitely. No ETA yet, but that is on the roadmap.
- luser001 14y agoSaw a build on a post in the the hackintosh sub-reddit, the link to which was posted here on HN. Great site. Since you're here, I'm going to file a bug. :) I just noticed that the following motherboard isn't showing an amazon price for me: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz68xud3hb3 http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz68xud3h... although amazon has it: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-DDR3-Motherboards-GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3/dp/B00518M74I/ http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-DDR3-Motherboards-GA-Z6...
- pcarmichael 14y agoThanks! I've fixed up the motherboard price for Amazon, though the price I list is when fulfilled from Amazon.com directly and not from their marketplace merchants.
- krsunny 14y agoNice site, very useful. Do you scrape all your data?