Who sells High End PC's in Ireland?

BostonB

Say you had budget of 3k for a gaming/multimedia PC and didn't want to build a PC or buy an Apple, Dell or Alienware. Who else sells high end gaming rigs in Ireland?

Anti

komplett.ie

Some smaller companys like local pc shops will happily build it, but you will get ripped off. Why not just build it yourself ? A selfbuild pc with a budget of 3k is like a 5k pv from dell/alienware etc etc

BostonB

I would, but its not for me. Who knows what craziness runs though peoples minds.

Anti

might be easiest to buy ot from dell ot alienware then. They do have great warrentys.

jonny72

i'm sure Peats has a dual core!! 6600gt sli!! pc for that price somewhere

AlmightyCushion

jonny72 wrote: »

i'm sure Peats has a dual core!! 6600gt sli!! pc for that price somewhere

I hope you are joking. A 6600gt sli pc for €3000 grand is a rip off unless it's made out of gold. I wouldn't really call it much of a gaming pc either.

PogMoThoin

:rolleyes: I think it was meant as a joke

zonEEE

komplett can build the pcs. and i dont think it cost much more

Sqaull20

komplett are swedish aren't they?

Fabio

Why not buidl it yourself and make a few bob out of it? Be reasonable with whoever you are doing it for, I'm not advocating you rip them off haha!

Dara Robinson

ITDirect will also build you a high end PC. They are based on Parliament St in Dublin

Sqaull20

Elera are Irish and build pc's, bit expensive though...

http://www.elara.ie/customize/start.asp

Why Irish?

You can get a few foreign sites to build you an insane rig for €3000

JavaBear

Try get in contact with a contractor of some sort. I had a PC made for me a few years ago by a random guy and it worked out cheaper and faster, plus I got everything I wanted in it.

Now though, I'd just make it myself. I know you said it's not your thing, but if you're into gaming it'd be pretty good for you to know. Especially when you want to update the rig. (Which you will want to do eventually!). Do you have any nerd friends who could help or something?

Sqaull20

I will build it for you, im in Limerick, will give a good deal

BostonB

Lads. If you read what was posted, I said I could build it myself, but it wasn't for me.

Someone asked where they could buy such a machine. I couldn't think of anywhere I'd recommend as a prebuilt outside of Dell or Alienware. At that budget I'd be building it myself. But some people have more money than sense and feel they have more "comfort" in buying from a company. Besides anyone that won't listen to sense, from past experience I'd give a wide berth as they'd just be hassling you from one week to the next.

I'm surprised theres no small company building gaming machines in Ireland. Just the usual mediocre boxes. Perhaps thats where the money is. Dull boxes.

Kintarō Hattori

jonny72 wrote: »

i'm sure Peats has a dual core!! 6600gt sli!! pc for that price somewhere

Very funny.

PogMoThoin wrote: »

:rolleyes: I think it was meant as a joke

Oh no wait...... it wasn't.

Sqaull20

BostonB wrote: »

Lads. If you read what was posted, I said I could build it myself, but it wasn't for me.

Someone asked where they could buy such a machine. I couldn't think of anywhere I'd recommend as a prebuilt outside of Dell or Alienware. At that budget I'd be building it myself. But some people have more money than sense and feel they have more "comfort" in buying from a company. Besides anyone that won't listen to sense, from past experience I'd give a wide berth as they'd just be hassling you from one week to the next.

I'm surprised theres no small company building gaming machines in Ireland. Just the usual mediocre boxes. Perhaps thats where the money is. Dull boxes.

Toco is in the business

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055242253

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

English, have ok deals...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-021-OK&groupid=43&catid=1056&subcat=

Anti

Back on track please lads.

L31mr0d

BostonB wrote: »

I'm surprised theres no small company building gaming machines in Ireland. Just the usual mediocre boxes. Perhaps thats where the money is. Dull boxes.

there's no money in it. Most people who want a gaming PC will build it themselves. Plus its hard to compete with the price of Dell machines.

There really isn't any retailers in Ireland that sell premade Gaming machines.

Why don't you tell your friend you'll build the PC with him. Half the fun of a gaming PC is the building and upgrading of it.

BostonB

I would have thought theres more of a margin in top end machines.

L31mr0d

BostonB wrote: »

I would have thought theres more of a margin in top end machines.

For CAD machines maybe, but then a company couldn't independantly provide these machines as the support would have to be excellent.

There is no profit margin for gaming machines, not for small independant bricks and mortar retailers anyway.

BaconZombie

There is ~10-15% margin on ALL computer part in of the main stores in Dublin....,
The Cables,accessories, Cases, etc are where they make money ~20-80%.

Most of the time "their" wholesale cost price is higher then what web companies are retailing stuff for and that before you add the 10-15% to cover the cost of running the Shop and paying staff.

L31mr0d wrote: »

For CAD machines maybe, but then a company couldn't independantly provide these machines as the support would have to be excellent.

There is no profit margin for gaming machines, not for small independant bricks and mortar retailers anyway.

L31mr0d

BOFH_139 wrote: »

There is ~10-15% margin on ALL computer part in of the main stores in Dublin....,
The Cables,accessories, Cases, etc are where they make money ~20-80%.

I'm not arguing with the margin on computer parts, i'm arguing there is no margin when you add in the costs to build the machines and give technical support for them. If your business is purely building and selling whole computer gaming systems (not the parts) I don't believe the market is there nor the profit margin to warrent it.

Flaccus

That's why for a low to mid range system I generally recommend people buy a Dell PC with included LCD and Warranty. Very hard to beat the price building yourself building especially if you have to factor in the cost of a half decent screen, buying the OS and software. tech support etc... Wasn't always this way. The margins on these prebuilt systems from Dell are tiny.
Recently I bought an XPS 420 maxed out with everything and buidling it myself would have cost me 300 euro+ more easily.

Of course when you talk about the high end stuff, sli/crossfire, extreme quad cores, I always say build because that is where these companies will charge a premium. When the XPS 720 first came out you couldn't get it for under 2.5k and that was without a monitor, and only a single video card and a non-extreme cpu.