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I was actually wondering this. Is it the same as pc part picker or used in addition to it?

Seems like the inverse? Select a prebuilt PC from Origin, Alienware, Cyberpower, etc and it independently prices each part of the build so you can see if you are getting ripped off(you are).

I certainly feel that I wasn't ripped off when in Feb this year, HP sold me this Omen desktop (https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/products/desktops/omen-35l-gam...) with a 9800x3d, rtx5080, 2TB SSD and 128GB?! of Kingston fury ram for £2700... with four years interest free credit...

it's now selling for £2300 more than when I bought it...

I didn't even want 128GB of ram... it just came with the pre-built spec I chose... I feel like they sold me the GPU and half the ram, and then threw in the rest for free! it's my deal of the decade...

half wish I'd stretched for the one with the 5090 now... :)

Not sure this demonstrates that HP gave you a deal so much as RAM and GPU prices have skyrocketed since then...

GPU and ram prices have certainly gone up since then, but they were also were high even then. I put that spec into pcpartpicker the day I bought it and was was over £3800... I think they'd set the prices the year before when they built the PCs and didn't update them...

not just you, all of us. the thing is that there will be more demand on what is available on the market: make sure to check and have at least some reference. Seems that hardware pricing will become more so like commodity/stock market.

Well, whether or not its a "good deal" depends on how much you value the OEMs efforts to select, test, assemble, and support the parts. I say this as some one who has been building computers for myself and others since I was like 17, and working on them longer- and I have charged a fair amount of money for these services. I think what I charged was fair, too.

there is a difference between a "gourmet" service and mass assembled PCs for sure. We now focus on scoring the run of the mill computers sold by big e-tailers.

Well test an example for yourself. I did and around 25% of the total price was for their "efforts". I doubt you would have charged as much to plug components into a Mobo...

Exactly. Thank you! 100% the intent to come across

Thanks, that makes sense.

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