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forum threadKingPoopa posted Yesterday 08:23 PM
forum threadKingPoopa posted Yesterday 08:23 PM

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X 4.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7; 128GB DDR5-5600 RAM ECC RDIMM; Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB SSD $7299.99

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X (4.2GHz) Processor
ASUS Pro TRX50-Sage WiFi A Motherboard
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Card
Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
10GbE+2.5GbE, WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.4
Windows 11 Pro

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X (4.2GHz) Processor
ASUS Pro TRX50-Sage WiFi A Motherboard
128GB DDR5-5600 RAM ECC RDIMM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Card
Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
10GbE+2.5GbE, WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.4
Windows 11 Pro

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Yesterday 08:26 PM
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LavenderRain9657Yesterday 08:26 PM
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What the hell is even that ? Daddy chill
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Yesterday 08:27 PM
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cheshirecatYesterday 08:27 PM
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They had the very same CPU + motherboard + RAM combo recently for $2,999. It was still in stock at some stores 2 days ago.

Case, PSU, and SSD are negligible here.

That leaves the GPU.

~$4k delta for 5090 is too much.
I'd say, not a good deal.
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cheshirecatYesterday 08:28 PM
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I'd be all over this at $5k (5090 FE MSRP diff), **maybe** cave in at 5.5-...maaaaybe 6k.

But $7300 is too damn much. Bad bundle.
MC disappointed me here.
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cheshirecatYesterday 08:31 PM
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Quote from LavenderRain9657 :
What the hell is even that ? Daddy chill
I welcome deals on high end workstation/server hardware. But this is a bad price.
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rpgman1Yesterday 08:48 PM
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Not the way to start off 2026 by pushing high-end PCs to consumers when companies are pursuing the AI bubble.
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Will_RYesterday 09:21 PM
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Quote from cheshirecat :
They had the very same CPU + motherboard + RAM combo recently for $2,999. It was still in stock at some stores 2 days ago.

Case, PSU, and SSD are negligible here.

That leaves the GPU.

~$4k delta for 5090 is too much.
I'd say, not a good deal.
Case sure. But that's a 1600 watt PSU, so likely a $500-750 part alone. Then another $250 for the SSD, and $100-300 for a 360mm AIO. I'll call it $1k flat.
5090s are still running $3k.
So $3k for the MB+CPU+RAM bundle, $3k for a random 5090, $1k for the rest of the bits to make it work, and that leaves $300 as an assembly fee.
That's actually a decent fair overhead. This is a moderately good deal that basically takes advantage of MC's bundle pricing and takes away the need to build it yourself if that's important to you. Oh, and free Windows license I guess.
What makes it not a good deal is the CPU. Unless you need the PCIe lanes, you can get 70% of the CPU performance from a 9950X. And the Ryzen comparable system can run the exact same RAM and GPU. For someone that does need the PCIe lanes, this is a moderately good deal.
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cheshirecatYesterday 11:55 PM
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Quote from Will_R :
Case sure. But that's a 1600 watt PSU, so likely a $500-750 part alone. Then another $250 for the SSD, and $100-300 for a 360mm AIO. I'll call it $1k flat.
5090s are still running $3k.
So $3k for the MB+CPU+RAM bundle, $3k for a random 5090, $1k for the rest of the bits to make it work, and that leaves $300 as an assembly fee.
That's actually a decent fair overhead. This is a moderately good deal that basically takes advantage of MC's bundle pricing and takes away the need to build it yourself if that's important to you. Oh, and free Windows license I guess.
What makes it not a good deal is the CPU. Unless you need the PCIe lanes, you can get 70% of the CPU performance from a 9950X. And the Ryzen comparable system can run the exact same RAM and GPU. For someone that does need the PCIe lanes, this is a moderately good deal.
I very much do need the lanes.

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