In this era of hardware prices, I believe many players have given up on upgrading or buying new ones in the past two years.computer, in fact there are still opportunities to pick up bargains, especially brand-name computers. Recently, a very lucky netizen from abroad was shopping Costco When, I suddenly found a Ryzen 7 9800X3D + RTX 5070 + 2TB SSD gaming pcIt was super cheap, and he saved almost NT$30,000. Even though he didn’t need to buy a new computer at the moment, he still bought it! More importantly, this is the last one on the shelf.
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Foreign netizens bought a Ryzen 7 9800X3D + RTX 5070 + 32GB DDR5 + 2TB SSD computer for US$1,100, which is about US$800 lower than the self-made market.
A netizen named omahrr recently shared a good thing he encountered on Reddit’s r/pcmasterrace board. He saw a super cheap iBUYPOWER Element Gaming PC gaming computer at Costco that day and decided to buy it immediately. The checkout amount was $1,175, and $75 was tax, so the computer only cost $1,100. He particularly emphasized that this was not a display product or an unboxing product, but a brand new machine, which happened to be the last one on the shelf in that branch:
Full specifications are as follows:
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: 8 cores / 16 threads
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB: NVIDIA Blackwell architecture mid-range main card, 1440p game positioning
- 32GB DDR5-5200 memory
- 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD
- 360mm AIO water cooling
- Mid-Tower Case + Power Supply
- Comes with keyboard and mouse
He himself said that he did not originally want to buy a new computer, but because the price was much lower than expected, he decided to buy it back and sell it to a friend at the original price.
The official website price of this iBUYPOWER Element Gaming PC Desktop at Costco is $1,499.99–$1,899.99. In other words, this netizen bought it at a price that is more than $400 lower than Costco’s own price, with a difference of up to $800. The foreign media’s self-organized market price is at least $800 lower:
For those who have no idea, here is a simple conversion, regardless of the processor and graphics card, just count the most expensive memory and SSD. The current price of 32GB DDR5-5200 in Taiwan is more than 10,000 yuan. Just count 10,000 yuan. Even a small brand 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD costs 7,000 yuan. The representative said that these two alone are already 20,000 yuan, plus the more expensive AMD processor and RTX 5070 A graphics card easily costs more than NT$60,000. This netizen bought it for only about NT$35,000, which is really a huge profit.
Some people may wonder, memory, SSD and other hardware have been increasing in price for several months, so why are there still such cheap computers now? This is mainly related to Costco’s sales structure of selling complete branded machines.
Costco signs “Costco limited SKUs” with channel brands such as iBUYPOWER, CyberPower, and Skytech, which are models specially configured for stores. The two parties bind the prices through long-term contracts. The brand relies on the volume of store orders to keep costs down, and Costco gets cheaper pricing than the official website. Long-term contracts have the advantage that the selling price will not adjust weekly to fluctuations in the component market.
Therefore, when DDR5 and SSD rise sharply, the price of Costco complete machines containing these parts will not immediately follow the increase. Therefore, it is cheaper to buy a complete computer than to buy individual components. In addition, each branch also has the autonomy to adjust prices for its inventory (clearance products, the last unit will be discounted, etc.), and occasionally there will be cases of incredibly low prices like $1,100.
Source: KOCPC Chinese