Build for 2500

Here is my ticket number 590405

Edited by BoShep - 26 Aug 2011 at 4:59pm

I smell what your stepping in

yea, i have been debating about the ODE 3 vs a customized one that I can get since i need to get one for my wife, but no matter how i do it, ODE 3 is most bang for the buck.

I went to new egg and put all the parts together, with ODE 3 you pay roughly a little bit less than $500 for the "labor" while if you customize your own rig (which the budget can only fit 1 card -_-) you are paying roughly $700 for the "labor"

Meaning the ODE 3 (SLI 570) i can get ALL the parts from newegg for approx $500 cheaper (including shipping and tax already, i've done my math) and $700 cheaper if i were to go with a customzied 1 card build from DS

So i asked myself, am i going to build it myself? no

So i asked further, if i customized my own on DS, i get only ONE card, AND technically speaking pay $700 more to get DS to build it (because the parts only cost 1800-1900 ish), i might as well get the ODE 3 where the parts cost 2000-2100 (in which if you look at it that way the "premium" that you have to pay for DS to build it is comparatively less".

Also, that 500 that you pay DS to build it includes shipping tax, warrant, OC, might as well!

Only down side is, the power supply, but DS says it's good to go with SLI 570 and I' was told that changing a power supply 3-4 yrs down the road is easy.

From what i was informed by the forum, the liquid cooling supplied by ODE is not better than the regular fan cooling BUT it is in no way a bad LC, it can support the ODE no prob, it's just people are saying the A70 fan one is better than this LC, that's all.

THe white case, again, it's people's opinion, because people like white iphones and this thing looks like one...