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| Thread ID: 124687 | 2012-05-13 05:03:00 | PCPartPicker - Better than pricespy | icow (15313) | PC World Chat |
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| 1275024 | 2012-05-17 03:52:00 | Hi everyone, I'm Philip, the guy behind PCPartPicker. I want to respect the forum guidelines/restrictions on commercial promotion, but I also wanted to say hello and introduce myself. Right now the site is listing four NZ merchants (Aquila, Ascent, Paradigm, PB Tech), though I've reached out to several others. I think PriceSpy is a great site, and having done a bit of price comparison work I know how challenging it can be to put together a site the scale at which they operate. My goal isn't to compete with or supplant PriceSpy as they run a great service (and are much broader in scope), but rather build on the niche configuration aspect of putting together a PC, pricing it, and sharing it with others. Thanks go out to user bongoskon on Reddit for sending me the request to add support for New Zealand. I want you all to know I'll do the best I can to help support you all, and if you have suggestions, feedback, or questions, feel free to send me a note. |
pcpartpicker (16785) | ||
| 1275025 | 2012-05-17 05:20:00 | +1 for showing your face in the community. Keep up the good work with the site :) Edit: Have you talked to computer lounge, elive, playtech and maybe mighty ape (they do some computer stuff)? Would really like to seem them on the site. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1275026 | 2012-05-17 06:06:00 | Hi Phillip, great to have you along! It's OK that you don't have every single retailer, to be frank many of the super-cheap ones that pricespy index have *insanely* cheap stuff that's never actually in-stock and can never be ordered when you ask them about it, simply to get you along to their website via Pricespy. Having a slightly more hand-picked selection of retailers with the intention of building a system and being able to share the results with your friend is a superb idea, and I commend you for it! I'll be watching this spot with eager anticipation :D Welcome to the Forums too, we hope you'll stick around!' EDIT: BTW - Your videos are great, and I've already referred a couple of people to the SSD vs HDD one when I got asked by some friends what kind of a difference it makes! Keep it up :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1275027 | 2012-05-18 03:58:00 | Thanks for the kind welcome. :) Edit: Have you talked to computer lounge, elive, playtech and maybe mighty ape (they do some computer stuff)? Would really like to seem them on the site. I've spoken with Computer Lounge, but am in the process of working out some technical issues with listing their prices. It may be a bit before I can list them. I've reached out to the others you mentioned, but haven't had a response yet. I'll keep at it and hopefully bring them on board. Welcome to the Forums too, we hope you'll stick around!' EDIT: BTW - Your videos are great, and I've already referred a couple of people to the SSD vs HDD one when I got asked by some friends what kind of a difference it makes! Keep it up :) I'll definitely stick around. Though you get quite a bit of traffic here, so it will be a challenge to keep up! If for some reason I don't respond to a post, you can always contact me via email (philip at pcpartpicker dot com) or via the contact page on the site. And I'm glad you like the videos! I have plenty more on the way. If anyone has any particular requests, let me know and I'll see what I can do. In the queue is an AMD APU build with hybrid crossfire, a couple of Ivy bridge builds, and some other howto content. |
pcpartpicker (16785) | ||
| 1275028 | 2012-05-18 04:05:00 | And I'm glad you like the videos! I have plenty more on the way. If anyone has any particular requests, let me know and I'll see what I can do.. Dancing girls. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1275029 | 2012-05-18 05:33:00 | I made this ( pcpartpicker.com) i tried to max out everything.:D I like it except where's the SSD, I'd go with a 256 or 512GB SSD and a 2TB WD blue over 2 raptors myself :) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1275030 | 2012-05-20 03:35:00 | If i did that the price would go to about $13000 im more of a person who likes space rather than speed.:) | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1275031 | 2012-05-20 04:05:00 | meh for less than the price of those two raptors you could get a 120GB SSD boot drive and a 2TB storage drive and get more speed AND more space. pcpartpicker.com would be how I'd do it if I was spending that kind of money |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1275032 | 2012-05-20 05:47:00 | Looks pretty good dugi, a quick tweak :) pcpartpicker.com Starting to get up there. Worked on a computer (HP network server) overseas about 9 yrs ago that cost £20,000 (roughly $41,600 NZD at todays exchange rate), had to relocate it to a new server room in a supermarket. Took 2 of us to get it down a flight of stairs and then I put it in a shopping trolley to move it through the shop to the new server room. Most expensive shopping trolley I've ever pushed around lol. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1275033 | 2012-05-20 05:54:00 | You raised the price $3000 for a ram and hd upgrade!?!? | stratex5 (16685) | ||
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