iBUYPOWER, Newegg Team Up For Live Configurator
On Tuesday, iBUYPOWER and Newegg announced a live configurator, a new way to customize a gaming desktop on Newegg. Customers can pick what they want and have the computer shipped right to their door. What's more, new desktop owners will receive customer service via iBUYPOWER and Newegg.
"iBUYPOWER completely eliminates the learning curve for assembling the ultimate gaming PC," said Soren Mills, Chief Marketing Officer of Newegg North America. "We're excited to offer this great new service to our customers, and we believe this will help people create and use the systems they truly want."
Currently, iBUYPOWER has an Intel-based desktop configurator. Customers can select the chassis, the CPU and motherboard combo, the memory, the hard drive, the video card and power supply, the optical disc drive and the operating system.
The default configuration has a $607.93 price tag, which includes the ARC 647 case, the ASRock H81 motherboard with an Intel Pentium G3240 processor, generic 8 GB of RAM, a generic 1 TB 7200 hard drive, a 350-watt power supply, an AMD Radeon HD R5-230 video card, a generic Blu-ray Disc combo drive and the 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows 8.1.
At the most, customers will spend $2,308 on this particular gaming rig. That configuration includes the iBUYPOWER Chimera 4S case, the ASRock Z87 PRO3 motherboard with a liquid-cooled Intel Core i7-4790K processor, and 16 GB of G.Skill Ripjaws X Series DDR3-1333 memory. Also included is a generic 1 TB HDD and 240 GB SSD, an 850-watt power supply, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780 with 3 GB of VRAM, a generic Blu-ray writer and Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
"Saying that this is an exciting new feature is a big understatement," said Darren Su, vice president of iBUYPOWER. "We decided that the best way to address the needs of the customer was to combine the strengths of both companies."
To configure iBUYPOWER's Intel-based gaming rig using the live configurator, head here. Customers can get 10 percent off using promo code "AFGD77" before July 9.
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Nothing says uber fast like a Cheetah made out of flames on the side of a iBUYPOWER Chimera 4S case, maybe some lighting bolts for legs will make it faster /s
Nothing says uber fast like a Cheetah made out of flames on the side of a iBUYPOWER Chimera 4S case, maybe some lighting bolts for legs will make it faster /s
a 350-watt hard drive, an AMD Radeon HD R5-230 video card
Didn't know there was a 350w hard drive, it must be "Smokin' Hot!" Lol
So it's plugged into the PCI-e slot, so it could draw the additional 75 watts from the PCI-e slot? Lol!
I'll never buy an ibuypower again but my next laptop will most probably be an HP.
At $100 they'd be making great margins. Since labor would run about an hour to an hour and a half at about $20 per hour. I know techs wouldn't make $20 per hour but you have to factor in all the mandatory employment taxes and insurances hidden from the worker that the employer has to pay.
More complex configurations such as RAID, custom cooling, additional software would be done for an additional fee.
BUT, its built using workstation components, so YMMV.
With that being said, this is an interesting alliance, and Newegg does provide good customer service. Also, is that why they were having web site issues earlier today?
At $100 they'd be making great margins. Since labor would run about an hour to an hour and a half at about $20 per hour. I know techs wouldn't make $20 per hour but you have to factor in all the mandatory employment taxes and insurances hidden from the worker that the employer has to pay.
More complex configurations such as RAID, custom cooling, additional software would be done for an additional fee.
I'm assuming everyone on this site has put a computer or two together and myself I've done between 30-50 as a desktop support agent at a large corporation. But after I moved on I still continue making them for myself...if you think putting it together physically AND installing the OS and updates/AVG takes only a 'few' hours you're crazy. They wouldn't be making great margins. A company like this wants to be charging you $100/hr...not $100/3hours. That's not how you run a company. Thing about iBuyPower is it's not people like us that buy them...it's the people that aren't comfortable building them or don't know how but can afford to add $200-300 to the cost of the system to have it build and shipped. I wouldn't do it, but I get it.