Back to school sale- limited time, limited stock!!
only $559 +Shipping, In stock pick-up available.
Custom-built PC
Perhaps they're too Budget to use the spell checker!
yep - this sounds excellent !!
Great deal, just alot of effort with warrenty if you don't live in melbourne (where the store is).
Good price, good warranty.
Kudos.
Great deal especially with the WP7 preload. Another $40 will get you the i5-2500 which is a monster of a CPU.
Good price if you have no idea about computers.
The motherboard is a Micro-ATX and that's how most budget PC's are built.
This one is OK but only supports 2 RAM slots:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx…
The case and PSU are low-end.
Put a couple of HDD, a decent Graphics Card, and you will see this system fail.
Agreed any white box System builder will be able to do this price on the same system not really bargain + I hate the annoying marketing "Windows Preloaded" - It does not come with Operating System license just say it doesn't.
I think it's still a good deal even if you do know something about building your own. Add in an SSD and a Nvidia 460 and you have a pretty beastly computer. Definitely has the making of a mid/high end gaming machine. Tempting myself now!
No it isn't.
An SSD and a mid-range card would entail investing in a new power supply first, unless you wanted a ticking time bomb on your hands with that Yum Cha PSU.
That’d mean at least $100 dollars for something decent (like an Antec TP-550, Thermaltake EVO) to power any mid-range card ala the 460, 5830, 6850, etc… all of which again would cost you between 180-220 dollars.
So already you're at the $850 dollar mark or above.
And second, you’d be bottlenecking that thing like crazy unless of course you decided to get a 2600K, which of course entails more money expenditure (at that point you may as well have never bought this thing). With no triple channel RAM, any games produced after 2009 are going to lagging like mad waiting for textures to be loaded into memory.
It’s simply not worth upgrading a thing in this rig because it just becomes counter-productive to the savings you made on it initially.
If you wanted any hint of serious performance, then this rig should be avoided like the plague.
This is a eMachine first and foremost.
Agree if you do a price search you will find this ECS board is the cheapest sandy bridge H67 motherboard available. Also having only two ram slots means if you want to upgrade memory, you have to throw out the old memory to replace it with larger capasity chips. At extra cost unless done at time of purchase.
Also doesn't mention if they supply 32bit or 64bit windows 7 OS.
Would also be a good idea to list model number and brand for parts. Eg DVDRW, Case, HDD, RAM, monitor etc. Otherwise people will just assume you will you use the cheapes available. Eg slow green HDD.
Delivery by road express to Sydney $14.95 is very reasonable.
The OS is clearly stated:
"Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Preload (Licence and Disc included) "
I think you're confused.
It's a good price for what you get, and if you don't think so you have no idea about computers.
Does it use high quality components? No. Is it a good computer for expansion and gaming? No. Is it advertised as such? No.
Yeah, nice price. But if the PC stuffs up you gonna pay big freight costs to get it down to VIC.
Nice to see you can remove the OS too. Helpful saving of $95 for us Linux folk.
parts alone would cost you about $500 so its a decent deal with the warranty and system assembly
Ok I would love the pc gurus point me to better system for similiar price. I am looking for a new one. I am in melb so was considering this offer.
it's easier and cheaper to build your own
depending on your needs/wants and your budget, you can post a forum in whirlpool>>desktop
Um how can it be 'easier' ?? cheaper perhaps yes… but what can be easier than placing and order and waiting for delivery????
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/7?g=77
Please lurk the building forum for a while before you open a thread.
Bad case, bad power supply, integrated graphics, no option for future video card upgrade. I fail to see how this is a good deal unless you were just buying it for a child or your grandparents.
This is
a good deal if you were just buying it for a child or your grandparents.
Yes, you could build a system yourself and get a custom rig with the exact parts that you want, with focus on reliablility + performance + and good value, but the question is are you willing to shoulder the burden of tech support?
If you built a desktop for your grandparents, they'll expect you to fix everything. Afterall, you built the damn thing, they would expect that you would know how to fix the hardware.
But if you bought one from a store, you can shirk that responsibility and tell them to return the desktop to the store if something crops up.
hate fixing for family…
always nagging about how slow it is
The old "sacrifice component quality and cost" for tech support argument is stale and hackneyed.
Have you actually dealt with mainstream computer tech support or tried to get an RMA for a faulty component?
It’s a ridiculously convoluted process. There is no inherent “security” in it at all because there are corporate-designed pitfalls every step of the way specifically so that many serious warranty claims can be rebuffed on technical grounds.
The amount of ways you can void your OEM warranty these days is astoundingly ridiculous, some manufacturers have provisions that forbid you from reconfiguring the BIOS or reinstalling bundled software on anything other than the default partition it came on.
God help you if you decided to take the cover off and just have a look around for any obvious signs of failure, like a loose cable.
(Yes, it’s worth it sending your PC back to the manufacturer, waiting 3-5 weeks, simply so they can reconnect a molex connector that wasn’t plugged in properly)
Once they have your PC/component in their possession they can claim anything they like to get themselves out of paying for it’s repair or replacement.
Who’s gonna know?
The average home user can’t tell x64 from the Nintendo 64 for god’s sake.
I’m not even gonna touch the help desks in India, the waiting times, the operating hours, the response times to fix an issue, the sheer inconvenience of it all while you have no functioning PC… most computer stores are open on every day aside from Sunday until 5 or 6pm. You go, drop it off, and pick it up a few days later.
That’s technical support.
Talking to lowly paid telemarketers about why your graphics card is artifacting on XYZ program or why you cannot get past POST on boot-up is like trying to explain general relativity to a cockroach.
Huh! No graphics card upgrade option? Not true. Motherboard has a PCI-e x16. So if your not happy with the onboard GPU then just wack in any video card of choice.
Have to agree on postage. Be a pain to find cheap deliver and be without pc for a few weeks whilst its being repaird. And suppose they will probaby charge you freight for sending it back to your after being repaired.
At least put location in your title makes it easier for people know where the shop is.
There's no "wacking in" anything.
You'd need to invest in a new power supply first, unless you wanted a ticking time bomb on your hands with that Yum Cha PSU.
That'd entail at least $100 dollars for something decent (like an Antec TP-550, Thermaltake EVO) to power a mid-range card ala 460, 5830, 6850, etc… all of which cost between 180-220 dollars on average, so already you're at the $850 dollar price point (which is more than enough to self-build a decent gaming rig).
And second, you'd be bottlenecking that thing like crazy unless of course you decided to get a 2600K, which of course entails more money (at that point you may as well have never bought this thing). With no triple channel RAM, any games produced after 2009 are going to lagging like mad waiting for textures to be loaded into memory.
It's simply not worth it upgrading a thing in this rig because it just becomes counter-productive to the savings you made on it initially.
If you wanted any hint of serious performance, then this rig should be avoided like the plague.
You hear that Broden? That is the collective sound of a thousand facepalms occurring simultaneously.
Yes, you can build it cheaper, but this has a 2 year RTB warranty, not to mention it was already pre-built. Something goes wrong, it goes back to the shop.
A DIY system only has parts warranty — you deal directly with the manufacturer after a 12 month period.
There are lots of people who would prefer a pre-built system than a DIY custom build.
You hear that Broden? That is the collective sound of a thousand facepalms occurring simultaneously.
ROFLMFAO!!! Broden=owned! :p
how much is postage to sydney?
Honestly mate, you'd be better off finding someone locally to match the deal; postage & potential warranty transport issues diminish the deal considerably for non-Melbournians! ;)
Prices from staticice:
CPU: i5-2300 $205
Motherboard: ECS H67H2-M3 $90
Ram: Generic ddr3 1333 4gb $47
HDD: Cheapest brand 500gb (seagate) $40
ODD: Generic DVD burner $25
Case+Psu: Cheapest + crappiest case at MSY $55
Windows Home premium: $99
Total: $561
So that's actually $2 more + you don't get any warranty + you have to build it yourself. Not saying this is a beast of a machine, but for what it is, it's a bargain. Heck, even the optional addons are reasonably priced. +$165 for a 60gb SSD AND 1tb HDD isn't bad at all, and for a person who doesn't fiddle around with computers all day it's a bargain!
Also consider shipping for buying each part on its own
the cpu is the main selling point, but most people won't be able to tell the difference in terms of performance between the i5 2300 and the i5 750 or any of the mid-to-high range C2D cpus. CPU isn't everything about a comp, whats the point of having an awesome CPU when the rest is just decent or even shit?
Distributors must be giving some nice discount on bundles for them to offer a deal like this
Good deal.
Sure I would never buy it because I want to game, but it is cheap for what you get and would do most non-gamers fine.
I especially like the low cost of the addons - thumbs up for not ripping people off on those, unlike Dell…
Also double plus for not having to pay $95 for Windows - you can get it cheaper on EBAY or you may already have a copy lying around the house…..
PSU will be fine as long as you just use the on-CPU graphics the CPU and mobo are made to support….
Not many computer shops are gonna price match this one but agree if your local can get close it would be worth buying local…..
If you want to play games with it, why not buy a video card and stick it in? Perhaps you could email them about adding on in for you at a price?
Agreed. Anything above a HD5850 will do 1900X1200 fine and lets face it, that's probably the majority of gamers. I think anything more is a bit of an overkill.
Because there's a chance the PSU won't be able to cope with the added video card?
I'm sure they could up-spec that for a nominal fee too! ;)
i just want to let you all know that Aldi in Melbourne CBD is still selling those AMD Quad Core and Intel Core i3 PCs with decent graphic cards for $599 (clearance sale). They are still a better bargain than this.
Damn, my locals only have Pentium Dual-cores in the desktops; albeit for $499 (still too high IMHO)!
Good deal, but won't even bother due to the costs of shipping it all the way to Perth…
Thumbs up to the rep for updating the site with graphics card options.
for once a decent pc deal!