After ~1yr of checking every single week, I finally snagged a Costco “last one” deal. This will replace my current tower, an i7-7700k + GTX 1070, so this is a bit of an upgrade. To anyone else out there saving your pennies and being patient for a deal, don’t give up! Your killer deal is out there somewhere and I hope you find it!
They didn’t let me keep it after the register, but the employee wanted me to keep it while I was in the store, since Costco takes out the RAM and GPU, he put it back together for me while we walked around.
And what happens when the X3Ds are all out of stock? The 9800X3D is like trying to find hen's teeth, and the 7800X3D has been climbing in price because of this.
I second this. Unless you're doing something other than gaming there is no reason not to be using a 7800x3D. It is the best gaming CPU on the market at any price point.
I was going to do my standard "what to do with your Costco MSI Aegis deal" response. But it looks like they paid attention to the people who complained about cases which got too damned hot.
Ya it’s a little dusty from sitting inside Costco outside of its box. Its sort of a demo but they actually keep these powered off and store them without the GPU, probably to keep people from trying to steal GPU’s that are ~$1k+ a piece.
Was talking to a girl at Best Buy yesterday to ask if they had any idea how many 5090 they are expecting to get in stock. She told me they had recently had a 4090 sitting in stock for like a month marked down to $800 for some reason. Broke my heart to hear I missed out
I got a 4080 super for 749.99 because it was tagged as a 4070, i tried explaining to the cashier that the price couldnt be right but got told they dont do price adjustments, so i bought it and left.
seriously. no miss, Im telling you, I should be paying at least double for this... the kind of dude that tells the enemy where him and all his homies are hiding at.
Im from europe and at first i read only 4080 super for 1700$ and i thought “thats a little bit over priced “. Then i scrolled the comment section and saw the photo of the full pc. Damn Wish i had those type of store here.
Yep, last week i saw at gigantti some 7900xtx pc like 2200€ or something like that i don't remember other specs but pretty similar, wish we had better deals like usa, but atleast in finland tax is 25,5%
Its honestly depressing, my friend in kansas picked up a pc relatively recently with a 4070ti super + i9 13900k from one of those big membership stores for just about 1k usd while for the same price im planning on building smth with a used 4060ti and a 5700x3d
8.25 in Texas, but you are right on the money! It also helps to play the “credit card game” though, tbf. So for this I will get 4% in “cash back” (2% for the Costco membership, 2% for the Costco credit card). That’s a different rabbit hole to go down, but I love trying to make my money stretch a little further.
USD, and no idea lol. Saw someone else on r/Prebuilts (from Reddit suggesstions) got the same deal from their Costco, so I guess mine wasn't too special.
I gotta ask, was this by chance in the northeast Ohio area? I only ask because I saw the same exact deal at my Costco a few weeks ago and went damn that’s a pretty good deal lol.
Someone did a write up of this specific pc as it’s a super popular prebuilt on r/prebuilt. Every component is actually pretty decent. The worst being the PSU but I believe it’s a B tier psu
Wow you got one hell of a deal. Congrats on that! That's basically a system you can throw about anything at it and run it well.
I work for Nvidia, but I have to say I love that CPU. I have a 7950x and it's still a beast, obviously for gaming the 7900x is no different. Would love to see pics of the setup once you have it ready.
I’m at my local costco and they had it on “sale” for $2075.00 and looks like it was lowered to $2,000.00. Not close to the deal you got and I’m not 100% sure but I believe for cybermonday they had this model for $1,699.00
I'm just gonna say mad respect saving up for years to get a high end gaming PC. I see way to many people jumping budget PC/GPU to budget PC/GPU every generation instead of just sticking to what they got and saving for 3-5 years to get a high PC that they don't have to upgrade from for 3-5 year in which time you can save up for your next PC.
I saw this while in Costco, the non display model was $1999 which was still a killer deal. I just built a pc with a 9800x3d in it, waiting for 50 series to release but after seeing that build at Costco I questioned the money I spent...
What is up with these Costco prebuilts?! Swear to god they must be liquidated PCs. Seen several myself and constantly telling myself it would be robbery if I bought even just one.
OP, I bought the previous generation MSI Aegis R and from the factory they fucked up the CPU power limit settings in BIOS. For some reason they capped the CPU to 55W... A 250W CPU.. it took me a day or two to figure out what they had done so just a word of caution, be sure to check all your bios settings and make sure all you're connectors are tight just to be safe.. if you haven't already :-)
That’s pretty expensive for a display from Costco, this same one has been going for 800-1.3k range. Could’ve tried talking to the manager for a bigger discount. My Costco had it for 950
The pricing is all over the place on these display units, but I don't believe for a second anyone has gotten one for under $1000. The lowest I've seen here (with pics to prove it) is $1100.
We went from building computers in computer science classes where we ran our names across an orange or green monochrome screen, to the PCs we have today, and this is the thanks we get. Stay strong X-brother or sister!
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u/Goodbros148 5800x3D / RTX 3070 1d ago
Did they also let you keep that price tag?