THIS is hilarious!!

dippy_skoodlez · Jun 27, 2003

Been watching tech tv lately?? Then you MUST've seen the new tiger direct ad for their "exclusive" pc. For only $1199, you can get a whole 3.0c P4 gaming PC!!! WHOO!!!!... err.. well... RIGHT??!!?? HAHA!! think again!

"Video Card Sold Separately"

HA HA!! that is directly form that page. heres the link for it.. they fail to mention THAT i the commmercial.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=H24-TS02 P
Thats the greatest ive seen for a long time!

MEMex · Jun 27, 2003

Says you can choose a card when you purchase it with extra money... As i see it, if you dont put the computer together yourself, you got ripped off x3

How about some simpletech 512 pc133 upgrade?
Killer deal!

glock19owner · Jun 27, 2003

Its a HP...no OCing...besides no video...

Manufactured by: Hewlett Packard
Manufacturer Part No: DL655C
Shipping Weight: 35.0 pounds
Limited Warranty: 12 months parts; 12 months labor

Sterculus · Jun 27, 2003

yup, that's a 'gaming' pc alright

dippy_skoodlez · Jun 27, 2003

lol memx.. i gonna jump to DDR now

My k7s5a supports ddr and pc133 thats 1 reason why i got it

at the time i bought it.. ddr was expensive.

Ghost68 · Jun 28, 2003

its marketing... you put in one or two really good parts and make the rest crap... then sell the whole thing for dirt cheap (well its dirt cheap to the uneducated) and rake in the cash...

Ben721 · Jun 28, 2003

Ghost68 said:
its marketing... you put in one or two really good parts and make the rest crap... then sell the whole thing for dirt cheap (well its dirt cheap to the uneducated) and rake in the cash...

In my opinion the biggest seller is probably the case with the window or a case with a cathode.

Terry · Jun 28, 2003

Wanna know what is REALLY funny? I work for HP in their plant in Omaha. We have been building a ton of these XW4100s for Tiger Direct in the last week... they are nothing but a 4100 with a Tiger nameplate badge and sticker slapped on them.

We are building so many of them I was wondering myself what kind of deal HP was cutting Tiger on them. They have [slow] ECC memory in them. They are Asus Canterwood boards inside. Kinda overpriced if you ask me.

Now we DID build some real Workstations this week. XW8000s with dual 3.06 Xeons, 2gb memory, 3X146gb SCSI HDDs, Quadro 980XGLs. Those were for the Florida Dept. of Transportation [your tax dollars at work].

NiTrO bOiE · Jun 28, 2003

Ben721 said:
In my opinion the biggest seller is probably the case with the window or a case with a cathode.

That's very true! My friend was looking to buy a computer, so I told him I could build one for him. He's like no, I want an Alienware because they look cool. So I was like ok whatever waste your money on it, I can build you the exact same thing without the Alien head on the front.

zabomb4163 · Jun 28, 2003

if somone has alienware budget i would rather have same system only with a vapo pe and a nice raid array.

UselesKnoledge · Jun 29, 2003

NiTrO bOiE said:
I can build you the exact same thing without the Alien head on the front.

I'm sure you can buy the alien head.

nealric · Jun 29, 2003

Acutally you cant get that case, unless best buy will sell you one (ive heard of people buying display cases).

However,

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANTS THAT POS???

IMO, its ugly as sin.

hoytron · Jun 29, 2003

I think that tigerdirect is a shady operation.

Banyan · Jun 30, 2003

TigerDirect is a complete joke... I wouldn't but a thing from them.

Akumu X · Jul 1, 2003

Lol, what the hell kinda "computer" is that?

Oh yea, "mainstream"

pip · Jul 1, 2003

frotffflmfaoofl

Crash893 · Jul 1, 2003

its funny but it does make sense

AFIsoldier · Jul 1, 2003

if only the public knew how much money the got ripped from by buying an HP or Dell or Gateway...i am glad i took the time to understand building my own computer instead of wasting 500 bucks letting dell build me "the pc of my dreams" eh! i got the best pc around here, and it's the coolest lookin too....

shortyes · Jul 1, 2003

Actually buying Dell is not bad...Parts that is....I mean for the price of some of the sales on pc Dell has you get some nice CPU, Vid, HDD and so forth. Not sure what to do with the case afterwards though. Sometimes cheaper than you can get at Newegg and what not.

ziptieboy · Jul 1, 2003

Plus, when you buy a dell, you get support, should something go wrong. That is if the person who bought the dell doesn't know someone like us!

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