Wtf is this deal?!

mightymilk said:
i doubt wherever you're getting those numbers, are the companies negotiated prices between each other. that sort of information is almost never public.

when a distributor approaches manufacturer and says, i want to buy a bulk stock of product x... most companies will not typically say, ok here are your prices. the manufacturer determines what multiplier they will give the distributor based how much they are going to buy in a given year. theres a ton of other things that go into the deal also.

what i'm saying is, whoever is supplying the company making those computers... is not necessarily paying 284 per unit of 1k... probably not even close to that.
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Well, every review for the i7 ive seen stated $284/unit/per thousand as the price on the 920, and ibuypower uses many standard parts unlike hp... they dont buy nearly the volume as some of the larger manufactureres such as say... dell or hp, and therefore cannot pay prices that are as low as what dell or hp pay.On electronic parts there is not a super high markup on them as there can be on many other things(paper products for example have a pretty high markup, calculators have really high markup, foods, etc.. but for computers the markup on cpu's and stuff arent as high as you would imagine..)
 
Russian777 said:
whats so WTF about it, I Went And I Built It Part By Part, Total Came Out TO be $850.
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Haha... you cannot build an i7 rig for $850 with a gtx 285, you can build a very similar rig for MAYBE $1150ish, but that would be using a crappy psu like they are using already. For the money its decent but you can build one a little better for the price.
 
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