The purchase of a gaming PC should be well thought out. But one player has now bought a new PC and did not pay attention. A friend of his fears he has been cheated. The community responds: He just got a bad deal.
A lot of money can be invested in a new computer or gaming PC. A user is now reporting on reddit that a friend of his bought a new PC. Cost: 1,500 CAD, which is about 1,000 Euros, excluding taxes. Inside the PC is the following hardware:
- CPU: i7-8700
- GPU: RTX 4060 (8 GB)
- RAM: 32 GB DDR4
- Monitor: Full-HD (1080p), 165 Hz
- Storage: 2 TB SSD
- Mouse and keyboard
The user believes his friend was cheated. But the community replies to him: He was not cheated, he just bought a bad deal.
Buyers are no longer patient enough to research thoroughly before purchasing
What hardware is this? The manufacturer only officially advertises an Intel i7 in its offer, but behind the i7-8700 is a now 7-year-old processor from Intel. On eBay, you currently pay around 90 Euros for the CPU. For the RTX 4060, you pay around 300 Euros on average, depending on the offer. The hardware sold here, especially the CPU, is far too expensive for the price.
Even if you set aside 50 Euros for the mouse and keyboard and 200 Euros for the monitor, the hardware sold in the offer is too high.
What is the problem? The problem is, as some users explain on reddit, that people who buy new hardware rarely inform themselves sufficiently. And it is exactly these people who are attracted by such offers. They do not realize that the hardware is either too old for the money or has some other catch.
Another difficulty lies in the details:
- Meanwhile, there are so many different processors, graphics cards, and other components that there seem to be endless combinations.
- This overwhelms the average gamer who just wants to buy a new computer. And so they do, without questioning the purchase or the product.
- In the worst case, they do not even realize that they have been sold junk or that they have paid far too much.
- Manufacturers then deliberately advertise only with “i7” because people have somehow stored that fast processors from Intel hide behind it. However, buyers ignore the fact that no new model is being sold here.
A gamer explains under the post: ‘There are so many options and different variables that people do not know who to trust and then just buy something.’ And that, replies another, is the big problem:
People are not patient enough to engage thoroughly with the subject. But then they should not complain that they have been cheated. Because they were not cheated, they just did not buy good hardware (via reddit.com):
People really need to understand what the difference is between a bad deal and cheating. If I sell you a water bottle with 600 ml of water [20oz] for 100 US dollars and you pay me 100 US dollars, then you get a bottle with 600 ml of water. You were not cheated, you just bought rubbish.
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