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One of my friends (FutureSightTech) says he can build one for about $600 or $700. I'll let him know about this to see if he can help you.

I will look into it. BTW, chech and see if any parts of your comptuer don't include the cables. What specs do you want?

If you are trying to stay cheaper than a mass-produced computer good luck, It is hard to do that because those companies can buy at reduced prices when they buy in bulk.

Futuresight's one model is $525, single core 2.6 AMD processor, 2gb ram, and not very suped up at all. It is built to be plugged into a tv and used to watch dvd's, netflix, hulu, etc...

FutureSightTech wrote:

If you are trying to stay cheaper than a mass-produced computer good luck, It is hard to do that because those companies can buy at reduced prices when they buy in bulk.

Futuresight's one model is $525, single core 2.6 AMD processor, 2gb ram, and not very suped up at all. It is built to be plugged into a tv and used to watch dvd's, netflix, hulu, etc...

$525 for a single core AMD and 2gb RAM? No offence but that sound massively overpriced.  A PS3 could pwn it.

Last edited by Targethero (2012-06-12 21:54:29)

FutureSightTech wrote:

Targethero wrote:

FutureSightTech wrote:

If you are trying to stay cheaper than a mass-produced computer good luck, It is hard to do that because those companies can buy at reduced prices when they buy in bulk.

Futuresight's one model is $525, single core 2.6 AMD processor, 2gb ram, and not very suped up at all. It is built to be plugged into a tv and used to watch dvd's, netflix, hulu, etc...

$525 for a single core AMD with 2gb RAM? No offence but that sound massively overpriced.  An PS3 could pwn that.

We charge list price for all of the parts. But newegg gives us at least 100 dollars in discounts, and that's all of the profit we make. We could charge less, but we want to have enough money to buy parts for future sales, so we can pay if something goes wrong.

What parts exactly do you use? mind posting a list?

soupoftomato wrote:

FutureSightTech wrote:

Targethero wrote:

$525 for a single core AMD with 2gb RAM? No offence but that sound massively overpriced.  An PS3 could pwn that.

We charge list price for all of the parts. But newegg gives us at least 100 dollars in discounts, and that's all of the profit we make. We could charge less, but we want to have enough money to buy parts for future sales, so we can pay if something goes wrong.

This confuses me.

Are you suddenly not commercial spam because you are a product made by a Scratcher?
You sell stuff for money so without bias you would be.

I am not trying to advertise. The only computer I have designed, I designed for my company, and I am trying to give examples of costs.

Before adding the mouse/keyboard in, the machine cost about 400 to make. I don't really want to post a list of parts, but almost everything was on the first page when you sort "Price: Low to High" on newegg in the parts respective categories. And some of them were combo deals.

With the keyboard and mouse, it is $418.89, and we charge $525. We might drop our price. We also sell custom built computers.

FutureSightTech wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

FutureSightTech wrote:

We charge list price for all of the parts. But newegg gives us at least 100 dollars in discounts, and that's all of the profit we make. We could charge less, but we want to have enough money to buy parts for future sales, so we can pay if something goes wrong.

This confuses me.

Are you suddenly not commercial spam because you are a product made by a Scratcher?
You sell stuff for money so without bias you would be.

I am not trying to advertise. The only computer I have designed, I designed for my company, and I am trying to give examples of costs.

Before adding the mouse/keyboard in, the machine cost about 400 to make. I don't really want to post a list of parts, but almost everything was on the first page when you sort "Price: Low to High" on newegg in the parts respective categories. And some of them were combo deals.

With the keyboard and mouse, it is $418.89, and we charge $525. We might drop our price. We also sell custom built computers.

No, I meant the whole account.

I looked at the website and you sell things for money.

It's fine to offer advice in selecting components for a computer build - and I think that's what's going on here - but please be aware that we don't usually allow people to advertise products for profit on the Scratch site.  So if you have component advice, please go ahead and give it - but as far as I know, the original poster is not looking to purchase a completed build.

soupoftomato wrote:

FutureSightTech wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

This confuses me.

Are you suddenly not commercial spam because you are a product made by a Scratcher?
You sell stuff for money so without bias you would be.

I am not trying to advertise. The only computer I have designed, I designed for my company, and I am trying to give examples of costs.

Before adding the mouse/keyboard in, the machine cost about 400 to make. I don't really want to post a list of parts, but almost everything was on the first page when you sort "Price: Low to High" on newegg in the parts respective categories. And some of them were combo deals.

With the keyboard and mouse, it is $418.89, and we charge $525. We might drop our price. We also sell custom built computers.

No, I meant the whole account.

I looked at the website and you sell things for money.

We have one product we sell. I am preety sure everything else is free. I also don't run the company myself, it is a joint company between ls97, jvvg, and myself. We started out as two seperate companies, who both started using scratch. I created this account because I couldn't think of a name, and I didn't want to use my previous account which was named jvvg-employee.

I meant trying to tell him how much the manufacturing of ours costs, not try to sell him one.

Once again sorry.

jji7skyline wrote:

Are you trying to beat it with the cpu or for gaming fps?

Just overall better performance

I found this AMD one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814161377

I prefer AMD graphics cards to NVIDIA ones