Riddle me this!

[compfused]

Can anyone figure this out. I went to Ibuypower.com and built a gaming rig to see what the cost would be to have someone else build it and send it to me. Then I took all of the parts from the Ibuypower build and looked them up on Newegg.com to see what it would cost to build it myself. To my surprise, the newegg build was about 400 dollars more expensive? How is that possible? here is the build. Some of the parts might not be EXACT such as the case and a few other smaller things. Ok have fun!

Tuniq IC-TQ2-US-SVBK Silver / Black SECC Chassis w/Aluminum Front ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail 69.99
ASUS Atlas A-50GA ATX12V 2.0 500W Power Supply - Retail 89.99
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562QX6700 - Retail 1599.00
Thermaltake CL-W0002 Liquid Cooling System - 12cm Big Radiator - Retail 23.99
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail 249.99
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400) 239.00
Seagate Barracuda ES ST3750640NS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM 449.00 X2
eVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail 629.99 X2
Cd/DVD Burner 40.00 X2
StarTech ST1000BT32 10/20/100/200/1000/2000Mbps PCI Gigabit Ethernet Card - Retail 13.99

Edit: On the graphics cards and hard drives the X2 is there is two of them.

 

[Ku-sama]

for one, the 6700 is $400 cheaper on tiger I think, or maybe it was monarch or zip... who knows...

 

[compfused]

That is the quad core, I don't know if you already knew that or not

 

[Ku-sama]

yes, its $400 cheaper else ware...

 

[compfused]

i wonder y newegg is so much more

 

[Ku-sama]

they wanna make money

 

[liquidshadow]

You should look in different places also, not just newegg. They have some great prices, but not always the best.

 

[The_Beast]

newegg isn't that bad if you look on PriceGrabber.com newegg is usually always the lowest priced seller

 

[compfused]

Ok, even so if I could get the processor at 400 dollars cheaper that would put Building it myself and having ibuypower build it and ship it at roughly the same price...that just doesn't sound right to me?

 

[IlluminatedSheep]

I looked at this a couple of years ago, and it was more expensive to buy the parts, than to buy a similar computer ready built. Seemed a bit odd to me too.

 

[Ku-sama]

they don't always buy from the same place, thy look around and they also get deals for wholesale so they can cell the parts cheaper...


you try to build a computer for $200 that includes a 15" LCD and printer like dell can

 

[softe]

tigerdirect and newegg have great prices, check them out

 

[compfused]

I think I figured out part of the problem, The build on Ibuypower SAID that there was two of the graphics cards but when I returned to build the same comp and figured out what was off they had changed the list to ONE card. So the build I found on newegg had one more card than the other.

 

[Bradan]

now that makes sense. dont go dual card, just get the best card u can afford. dual cars are def not worth it