Guest ExtremeFusion Report post · CID: 111458385 Posted October 19, 2007 Well this is not just limited to Gilmore, QC computer shops but to other shops as well.. Pls.. post your experience good or bad.. so that buyers know where would be the nice place to make their purchases... Here is my Experience... At PC EXPRESS PLUS in gilmore their service is extremely slow... Grrr... as if they are out number by computers than personnel... 3 personnel to attend to 20+ customer.. GEEZ! And their warranty replacement SUCKS! takes about 2 months for them to replace my flashdisk... At PC OPTIONS this is again at Gilmore, QC... when i visit their shop.. there are tons of customers waiting in line in the SERVICE/WARRANTY section... made an impression on my mind that the product is of low quality or either it is refurbished that is why they sell it cheap... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grift3r74 0 Report post · CID: 11107245286 Posted October 19, 2007 Well this is not just limited to Gilmore, QC computer shops but to other shops as well.. Pls.. post your experience good or bad.. so that buyers know where would be the nice place to make their purchases... Here is my Experience... At PC EXPRESS PLUS in gilmore their service is extremely slow... Grrr... as if they are out number by computers than personnel... 3 personnel to attend to 20+ customer.. GEEZ! And their warranty replacement SUCKS! takes about 2 months for them to replace my flashdisk... At PC OPTIONS this is again at Gilmore, QC... when i visit their shop.. there are tons of customers waiting in line in the SERVICE/WARRANTY section... made an impression on my mind that the product is of low quality or either it is refurbished that is why they sell it cheap... I built my pc at PC House Gilmore around 2 and a half years ago.. It was a kick as$ gaming machine at that time. it cost me around 25000 just to build the CPU.. ($550). LOL, I built it to play half-life 2 and doom 3 which was much anticipated at that time.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ExtremeFusion Report post · CID: 111458385 Posted October 19, 2007 I built my pc at PC House Gilmore around 2 and a half years ago.. It was a kick as$ gaming machine at that time. it cost me around 25000 just to build the CPU.. ($550). LOL, I built it to play half-life 2 and doom 3 which was much anticipated at that time.. Coud you tell me the specs of your computer(CPU) that cost $550 all of its component pls... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grift3r74 0 Report post · CID: 11107245286 Posted October 19, 2007 Coud you tell me the specs of your computer(CPU) that cost $550 all of its component pls... ASUS Motherboard (AGP) Wrong move on my part I had no clue PCI would take over suddenly and kill AGP card slots :haha:) ATI Radeon 9500 256 MB 80 GB Seagate Barracuda 1 gig ram Combo Drive LiteOn CPU case (Black) Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz Plus my friend gave me his spare of 512 ram and 40 gig harddrive Sorry forgot the individual prices. That was a loooong time ago. You could do the same also and get current gen parts at around that price today. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ExtremeFusion Report post · CID: 111458385 Posted October 19, 2007 ASUS Motherboard (AGP) Wrong move on my part I had no clue PCI would take over suddenly and kill AGP card slots :haha:) ATI Radeon 9500 256 MB 80 GB Seagate Barracuda 1 gig ram Combo Drive LiteOn CPU case (Black) Pentium 4, 3.0GHz Plus my friend gave me his spare of 512 ram and 40 gig harddrive Sorry forgot the individual prices. That was a loooong time ago. You could do the same also and get current gen parts at around that price today. same boat, i have bought a Inno 3d Nvidia GE Force FX 5500 AGP card, just to find out that it will soon be obsolete... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest PeePs Report post · CID: 119153023427 Posted October 19, 2007 $2500 for that machine seems way too much even for 2 1/2 years ago. Then again technology advances so quickly i could definitely be wrong, but the fact that you actually had a shop build it for leads me to believe it was overpriced . I built my PC (myself, no shops) about 1 3/4 years ago and it only cost me around $900. Specs: ASUS A8N5X motherboard (with PCI-E ) AMD Athlon XP 3700+ @ 2.2 Ghz 1 GB Corsair ValueSelect memory 250 GB 7200 RPM HD GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB Video card 600 Watt power supply DVD Drive Anyways since this thread is about computer shops I'll just say this....... if you want a job done right at the right price do it yourself . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grift3r74 0 Report post · CID: 11107245286 Posted October 19, 2007 $2500 for that machine seems way too much even for 2 1/2 years ago. Then again technology advances so quickly i could definitely be wrong, but the fact that you actually had a shop build it for leads me to believe it was overpriced . I built my PC (myself, no shops) about 1 3/4 years ago and it only cost me around $900. Specs: ASUS A8N5X motherboard (with PCI-E ) AMD Athlon XP 3700+ @ 2.2 GHz 1 GB Corsair ValueSelect memory 250 GB 7200 RPM HD GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB Video card 600 Watt power supply DVD Drive Anyways since this thread is about computer shops I'll just say this....... if you want a job done right at the right price do it yourself . No that was in Philippines Peso.. In US dollars, it would cost $550 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ExtremeFusion Report post · CID: 111458385 Posted October 19, 2007 $2500 for that machine seems way too much even for 2 1/2 years ago. Then again technology advances so quickly i could definitely be wrong, but the fact that you actually had a shop build it for leads me to believe it was overpriced . I built my PC (myself, no shops) about 1 3/4 years ago and it only cost me around $900. Specs: ASUS A8N5X motherboard (with PCI-E ) AMD Athlon XP 3700+ @ 2.2 GHz 1 GB Corsair ValueSelect memory 250 GB 7200 RPM HD GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB Video card 600 Watt power supply DVD Drive Anyways since this thread is about computer shops I'll just say this....... if you want a job done right at the right price do it yourself . do you shop ONLINE?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest PeePs Report post · CID: 119153023427 Posted October 19, 2007 No that was in Philippines Peso.. In US dollars, it would cost $550 welp im an idiot! do you shop ONLINE?! Yep. Two best sites are: tigerdirect.com (only good if they have special mail in rebates) newegg.com (lowest prices for any computer hardware...... always). As for the phillipines I don't know if there are any great sites like newegg there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SiraComputer 0 Report post · CID: 186959379493 Posted October 20, 2007 hmmm PC EXPRESS alabang has many tech's and has fast service! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites