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Nothing wrong with Pricewatch at all--just check the store you're buying from as mentioned in the previous post. Some resellers only get you a low rate when you mention pricewatch. Even newegg does this, I believe.
On another note, I too vote with my wallet, and just voted on 2 separate occasions--1 120 gig seagate 8mb cache drive for 50 dollars after rebate, and another 120 gig drive (maxtor) for 60 after rebate (8 mb cache). Can't beat that at newegg, and I got my rebates fairly quickly.
Of course you'd be a 'bleepin' moron to pay full price on something at Comp USA. No, I'm not gonna spend 195 dollars on a GeForce 5600 because its "one of the fastest cards out there".
I buy cheap hd's at compusa, ghetto cheep mobo/cpu combos at fry's (80 bucks for 2500+ and mobo... you gotta be kidding me!), refurb'd graphics cards from newegg (60 dollar Ti4200--hell yeah!), ram from newegg (they're good with rma's, and ram NEEDS to be rma'd a lot), solid cheap cases from fry's (I'm not paying' 15$ shipping on a case--whats the point).
Doing this I was able to put together a solid computer for pretty cheap--I now have a mobile 2400 running at 2.5 ghz on air w/ a quiet fan (volt modded tornado at 5v) on 1.8v. It owns all directX 8 games, and a year from now I'll have my hands on a radeon 9800 or GeForce 5900 for 60 bucks, flash the bios, and play the latest games for cheap.
Why pay more when you can pay less?
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