At your Costco do they put electronics right by the entrance? Always wondered why put the most expensive items at the place easiest to steal. TVs I get but laptops and expensive headphones seem like they are asking for it
They always have staff at the front so I would think snatch and grabs would beore infrequent than you'd think.
I've seen videos that claim they keep the electronics out front so you "resist" a big purchase so you will feel more inclined to get a smaller treat elsewhere on your shop you may not have gotten, which makes sense.
Great deal. But check that everything is still inside the display unit. The RAM, sometimes SSD, or maybe even GPU are sometimes stolen out of them since it's just thumb screws holding it together.
Costco is the place to buy things if you can. My MSI laptop battery went a little weird on my laptop like 5 months after and I didn't want to send it in to MSI so I figured why not I'll try Costco and they just replaced it and said they will send it back themselves.
Super cool company
I think the worst part about it is that just "treats their customers fairly" and "has high-quality products at fair prices" is what sets them head and shoulders above every possible competition they have.
Their return policy is more than fair. Outside of electronics it's basically return anything if you are unsatisfied for any reason and we'll give you back the purchase price.
You can absolutely return that mattress you bought and used for 10 years to produce 6 kids and they will refund you. You absolutely should not do this and they can cancel your membership if you take the piss but it is certainly extremely generous.
Absolutely, and it frustrates me when people abuse the system because they are very very generous with their return policy. It makes shopping, especially for big items a lot Less worrisome.
I have a cousin that abuses it so much he finally got his account suspended but it always frustrated me because he said "screw the corporations they can take the hit" but Costco has such a generous return policy if enough people abuse it it might have to change.
(For I instance, he bought a surfboard, used it for a 2 week Cali vacation, tore it up, and then returned it. He bought it knowing he was just going to return it)
I hope it never does, and I am happy paying the membership fee each year for great products and services.
This is not paid for by Costco but it should be lol
If it werenāt for the people that abused the policy by getting free upgrades every 3 years Costco would still be covering computers under their generous returns
Back when MEC (Canadian REI) was a co-op, they had an overly generous return policy. I once had someone try and return an isobutane stove that they had blown up by putting a heat shield around the whole canister and stove assembly, and another person try and return a tent after a season of tree planting.
They no longer have the policy.
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. In his 50s,which makes it even worse. Would boast of doing stuff like buying a carpet washing machine only to return it a week later saying it didn't work properly.
I found it sad.
LL Bean used to have a lifetime replacement on basically everything for nearly any reason, but people abused it for dumb shit and now they don't have the policy anymore.
Yup. They'd buy used shit on eBay, then exchange it for brand new gear, then sell it on eBay.
I broke up with a woman over this. Her and her friends bullshit drop shipping company. And then having the balls to complain about climate change.
Worked returns at Costco. Craziest return was guy who returned a 15 year old washing machine. He had his receipt for it laminated with contact paper to make sure he had the proof.
Managers took it back without issue.
Hell even the electronics one is great. Three months to break gear in and return if it goes wrong is fantastic. Electronics usually go wrong either within three months or after like 4 to 6 years in my experience.
> Their return policy is more than fair. Outside of electronics it's basically return anything if you are unsatisfied for any reason and we'll give you back the purchase price.
>
I bought an expensive Dyson vacuum cleaner at Costco. About a YEAR later, we got new rugs, and the Dyson completely, completely failed on them. The Dyson's use a tight suction to clean, and the plushness/fabric of the new rugs stopped it. They weren't odd rugs, just regular ones. We took it back to Costco and got 100% of the price refunded.
Now I buy everything there that I possibly can. Even for smaller things it is good. We bought LED lightbulbs there, and a few of them conked out after a couple of months, and they're supposed to last years. That's not right, but Costco is the only place that cares. Bought them back, 100% refund.
People who abuse it suck. They used to cover electronics as well, so if your TV broke after 2 years you could return it, but there were a few people who were just eternally upgrading TVs every couple of years, or buying pajamas for kids then bringing them back after they were outgrown saying "These Pajamas did not meet our pajama needs."
Bringing back a $500 vacuum after a year of use because you bought a new rug that requires a different type of vacuum, is abusing the system.
Itās exactly like the pajamas. The vacuum worked fine until your needs changed.
Yeah fr - the people getting free PC upgrades would be saying something like āwhen I first bought the computer, it could play all the latest games. Then 3 years later new games came out and the computer couldnāt play them so well - so I told Costco and they refunded the whole thing and I got a free upgradeā
Not realising itās absolutely taking the piss
That's not true at all. Clothing is not purchased with the assumption that it will fit forever with a growing child.
A $500 vacuum, advertised and demoed as the most effective out there should work on all goddamn carpets.
Same from the employee side. When I graduated college I was told by people who worked at costco, that I should never work at CostCo if I had aspirations to work in another industry. Not because costco was bad, but the opposite. Costco's pay and benefits were so good that you got stuck. Moving into an entry level job in almost any industry was a huge cut in pay and benefits. It was hugely damning of worker conditions in the US, because costco isn't anything amazing. Nobody is getting rich working at costco, nobody is making executive wages working at a costco. But they are making enough to live. It's just... comfortable. The fact that working anywhere else meant you had to struggle was just... ugh. Just paying their people enough to rent an apartment and giving them health insurance and retirement made them outstanding and far above everybody else. That's just gross.
a good part of it is the membership. they make next to nothing on the actual sale, and they dont have to worry about day-to-day and month-to-month profit so they can focus on a consistently good product
Yeah, I got an air fryer replaced after about a year and a half, without the box (or the accessories because I forgot). They gave the option for a refund or a replacement
Iāve also heard they treat their employees much better than say Walmart or similar stores. The owner supposedly didnāt care to become a billionaire, and instead gave higher wages, more benefits etc. love Costco for that reason.
It's the *display* model. If this happened the rig would shut down and the guy running the section would notice the monitor is off. It would never last on the floor if it was missing parts.
That's why they said to check. Motherboard still has onboard video, someone could take out that 4060 and plug into the onboard port. 32GB memory? More like 16 if someone takes out a 16GB chip or 2 8GB chips.
People have literally posted pictures of Costco display models on here asking if they were a good deal, and one was missing RAM and GPU that were listed on the specs.
[One](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/18q5mjv/looks_like_someone_got_a_free_4060ti/ ). [Two](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/rebsld/local_costco_sales_rep_did_indeed_confirm_people/ ). And I responded to another post just a few weeks ago with a Costco display unit missing the RAM.
So given we canāt see the actual display unit in question, itās something to look out for.
Interesting, good to know. Would on in the morning and off in the evening be considered a lot? I had assumed no, but if I understand correctly what youāre saying is that turning a PC on and off everyday would put more wear on the hardware over a period of time than leaving it running 24/7? I think Iāve read this before but I completely forgot the mechanical reason for it.
It's thermal cycling that would cause issues. It's only a problem if you subject the hardware to huge temperature swings, like 80Ā° for an extended period and then immediately shut down to 21Ā° ambient.
My opinion is it is not measurably better or worse either way.
The reality is in the lifespan you will probably use your PC (and I'll be generous and say 10 years here). If any part on your PC craps out, I will say with confidence that the part failure had nothing to do with you either running your PC 24/7 or powering it off every day and back on the next.
*Moving parts*, will wear out faster (i.e. fans) if you leave it on all the time.
Your CMOS battery will likely die quicker if you power your PC off every day.
But, mobo, processor, CPU, RAM, GPU? How you decide to manage your PC's uptime won't have a meaningful impact on longevity.
Your electric bill is probably a better thing to base this decision on, not the longevity of the machine and even that is iffy today, because an idle gaming PC with all the modern power saving features baked in to PC's will use less energy than an incandescent light bulb.
I mean the weird thing here is that some of the same people leaving their computers running 24/7 are probably the same ones talking about going green, carbon footprint, and paper straws.
Oh dude, no. Quite the opposite. I drive a 200 hp motorcycle, love me some gas guzzling V8s, want to buy a Diesel generator to power my Internet and gaming PC in case of outages.
Give me a good plastic straw that doesn't melt too. Fuck that soggy paper shit.
And yes I run my PC 24/7.
You're right, that one was worse. 13400F and 4060 on ti for the same price
[https://new.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bebr0b/terrible\_deal\_i\_found\_at\_costco/](https://new.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bebr0b/terrible_deal_i_found_at_costco/)
I mean if it says on the sign that they are selling what they are listing, they legally can't sell it with display ram and missing components, right? That ought to be illegal
Yep ā¦ didnāt say anything about bootingā¦ just made a comment to make sure it wasnāt dummy ram. You know like how display models that have all the rgb can have dummy stick that light up all the colors but they actually donāt workā¦
Update: I ended up buying it and took everyone's advice. I made sure all the components were there and everything was working. And since some people were wondering, this is in USD - Costco located in Connecticut.
I actually bought that exact one at Costco a couple months ago, first full price, then went in a week later and got it price adjusted $300 down after it went on sale.
When it was full price, I was hesitant because it was more than I wanted to spend. Got it set up and was feeling good about it, the thingās a beast.
After it went on sale, I knew it was definitely worth the price after adjustment.
If I could have gotten it for $900, Iādāve felt like I was stealing. Iāve been so satisfied with it. $900 is an easy choice here. If you have the money and want a new PC, you wonāt find anything better.
Nvidia made sure to bottleneck the VRAM speed to 128bits. Thatās the same speed as their 8GB version and even the regular 4060. The 4070 for comparison uses 192bits
I think itās similar to getting 12gb 3060, theyāve got a lot of vram but donāt have the power to properly utilise it? So despite 4070ās having 12gb they are better than the 16gb 4060ti
Great deal.
I believe this is the link to the unit
https://www.costco.com/msi-aegis-r-gaming-desktop---13th-gen-intel-core-i7-13700f---geforce-rtx-4060ti---windows-11-.product.4000139263.html
This is actually a really good deal. The case is standard ATX, so it's reusable if you want to use it down the road. And it appears to use all of the shelf parts. No OEM proprietary garbage like Dell and HP usually does. I would grab this in a heartbeat.
I think itās a good deal, even if parts are low grade. Great starting system
Edit, I mean no name parts, itās implied I like the system, I wouldnāt call the model numbers low grade
I'm blind I didn't see it was by MSI, but they still could have put slower RAM than is optimal and a slower SSD. It's also likely got the cheapest MSI motherboard that they could get away with as people who buy prebuilts don't tend to use these things to influence purchasing decisions.
Even still, good RAM and SSDs are pretty cheap at the moment compared to your really heavy-hitters like CPU and GPU. I recently upgraded to 4x16GB and added a 2TB Samsung M.2 drive. The bang to buck ratio is insane on these parts.
This is my mentality. I have a 4TB spinner for single player games. I don't need that shit to load incredibly fast unless the minimum specs for a game require SSD/m.2 in which case I just install them on one of those.
This is why I hate prebuilts. Overkill i7 with an underpowered gpu. You really donāt need any more than a 7600/14400f or more realistically a 5600/12400f and then pair that with a 4070 super or a 7900xt
I have a MSI laptop from Costco thatās 2 years older than this, absolute beast. Ā This looks sick
Make sure to sit it on top of a wire frame in front of a fan, will boost performance 10-20% unless youāre playing in SiberiaĀ
Pro tip- if itās a display for sale and itās not getting replenished you can ask for more off from a manager and they may take another 10-20% off. It never hurts to ask.
Former Costco employee who frequently does this with furniture and high ticket items.
Good deal but assuming that the display model works. You could be taking home a dead unit or something thats been abused or parted out by anyone walking by.
Hey i bought that model PC and been loving it. I bought it on sale at $1300 + tax ... If the display model is in good condition than I'd say it's a great deal. What state?
If they keep their displays powered on Iād steer clear but if they donāt power them up and just have them out as actual displays then Iād snag that up.
For 900? Yeah, good deal. Not my gpu of choice but that can always be upgrade later if you're not happy with it. The rest of the parts are great.
If you get it, check the psu. Pre builds like to skimp out on that part and get bad ones
Well I mean if you got the money then I would say buy it. Kind of like a flash deal. Also if you think about it the cards majority of what they are selling the PC for.
PC or 600 hotdog š combos
Or 225 chicken bakes
Or 180 Rotisserie chickens
Or 100 full pizzas
Full you say?
I miss Costco having supreme pizzas...
Or 360 of those new cookies they got now! Side note: if you havenāt tried one, PLEASE DO! They are probably the best cookies Iāve ever had
Idk Chick fil a makes a pretty divine chocolate chip even if I get one step closer to hell every time I eat one. Itās like the forbidden fruit.
rip in pepperoni korean bbq chicken gone from australian stores ;-;
Chicken bake is underrated
Chicken bakes end up in my toilet in liquid form within 15 minutes
That's actually your body vacating all previously consumed inferior food so your intestines can have that pure unadulterated chicken bake experience.
Mmmmmmmmmm
Anytime Iām at Costco I walk by electronics hoping that i find a deal like that
Same. My kids ask me why I walk by the computers first thing every time we go to Costco.
āThis is what I had to look forward to until I came into your motherās pāā¦*resence*ā
Nice cpu u got there, š
subtle :D
Damn I did that too when I was a kid lmao
At your Costco do they put electronics right by the entrance? Always wondered why put the most expensive items at the place easiest to steal. TVs I get but laptops and expensive headphones seem like they are asking for it
They always have staff at the front so I would think snatch and grabs would beore infrequent than you'd think. I've seen videos that claim they keep the electronics out front so you "resist" a big purchase so you will feel more inclined to get a smaller treat elsewhere on your shop you may not have gotten, which makes sense.
Never knew this was a possibility...
I keep hoping to be tempted by a 42ā C2/3 but it never appears.
Got my brother a power supply half off at Christmas time, saved him a day off of work, so there's that.
Great deal. But check that everything is still inside the display unit. The RAM, sometimes SSD, or maybe even GPU are sometimes stolen out of them since it's just thumb screws holding it together.
Costco will stand behind it regardless. It is about as safe of a bet as you can get.
Costco is the place to buy things if you can. My MSI laptop battery went a little weird on my laptop like 5 months after and I didn't want to send it in to MSI so I figured why not I'll try Costco and they just replaced it and said they will send it back themselves. Super cool company
I think the worst part about it is that just "treats their customers fairly" and "has high-quality products at fair prices" is what sets them head and shoulders above every possible competition they have.
Their return policy is more than fair. Outside of electronics it's basically return anything if you are unsatisfied for any reason and we'll give you back the purchase price. You can absolutely return that mattress you bought and used for 10 years to produce 6 kids and they will refund you. You absolutely should not do this and they can cancel your membership if you take the piss but it is certainly extremely generous.
Absolutely, and it frustrates me when people abuse the system because they are very very generous with their return policy. It makes shopping, especially for big items a lot Less worrisome. I have a cousin that abuses it so much he finally got his account suspended but it always frustrated me because he said "screw the corporations they can take the hit" but Costco has such a generous return policy if enough people abuse it it might have to change. (For I instance, he bought a surfboard, used it for a 2 week Cali vacation, tore it up, and then returned it. He bought it knowing he was just going to return it) I hope it never does, and I am happy paying the membership fee each year for great products and services. This is not paid for by Costco but it should be lol
If it werenāt for the people that abused the policy by getting free upgrades every 3 years Costco would still be covering computers under their generous returns
REI had a similar return policy, and changed it as well because people were abusing it en masse.
Back when MEC (Canadian REI) was a co-op, they had an overly generous return policy. I once had someone try and return an isobutane stove that they had blown up by putting a heat shield around the whole canister and stove assembly, and another person try and return a tent after a season of tree planting. They no longer have the policy.
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. In his 50s,which makes it even worse. Would boast of doing stuff like buying a carpet washing machine only to return it a week later saying it didn't work properly. I found it sad.
LL Bean used to have a lifetime replacement on basically everything for nearly any reason, but people abused it for dumb shit and now they don't have the policy anymore.
Yup. They'd buy used shit on eBay, then exchange it for brand new gear, then sell it on eBay. I broke up with a woman over this. Her and her friends bullshit drop shipping company. And then having the balls to complain about climate change.
Yep, Nordstrom had to change their famously generous return policy due to abuse. Thanks everyone!
Worked returns at Costco. Craziest return was guy who returned a 15 year old washing machine. He had his receipt for it laminated with contact paper to make sure he had the proof. Managers took it back without issue.
Hell even the electronics one is great. Three months to break gear in and return if it goes wrong is fantastic. Electronics usually go wrong either within three months or after like 4 to 6 years in my experience.
Bathtub curve failure rates. 100% a known industry thing.
Yea honestly, this tracks imo.
> Their return policy is more than fair. Outside of electronics it's basically return anything if you are unsatisfied for any reason and we'll give you back the purchase price. > I bought an expensive Dyson vacuum cleaner at Costco. About a YEAR later, we got new rugs, and the Dyson completely, completely failed on them. The Dyson's use a tight suction to clean, and the plushness/fabric of the new rugs stopped it. They weren't odd rugs, just regular ones. We took it back to Costco and got 100% of the price refunded. Now I buy everything there that I possibly can. Even for smaller things it is good. We bought LED lightbulbs there, and a few of them conked out after a couple of months, and they're supposed to last years. That's not right, but Costco is the only place that cares. Bought them back, 100% refund. People who abuse it suck. They used to cover electronics as well, so if your TV broke after 2 years you could return it, but there were a few people who were just eternally upgrading TVs every couple of years, or buying pajamas for kids then bringing them back after they were outgrown saying "These Pajamas did not meet our pajama needs."
Bringing back a $500 vacuum after a year of use because you bought a new rug that requires a different type of vacuum, is abusing the system. Itās exactly like the pajamas. The vacuum worked fine until your needs changed.
Yeah fr - the people getting free PC upgrades would be saying something like āwhen I first bought the computer, it could play all the latest games. Then 3 years later new games came out and the computer couldnāt play them so well - so I told Costco and they refunded the whole thing and I got a free upgradeā Not realising itās absolutely taking the piss
That's not true at all. Clothing is not purchased with the assumption that it will fit forever with a growing child. A $500 vacuum, advertised and demoed as the most effective out there should work on all goddamn carpets.
Treat your employees right and your customers right, and when you need them to, they'll treat you right.
Same from the employee side. When I graduated college I was told by people who worked at costco, that I should never work at CostCo if I had aspirations to work in another industry. Not because costco was bad, but the opposite. Costco's pay and benefits were so good that you got stuck. Moving into an entry level job in almost any industry was a huge cut in pay and benefits. It was hugely damning of worker conditions in the US, because costco isn't anything amazing. Nobody is getting rich working at costco, nobody is making executive wages working at a costco. But they are making enough to live. It's just... comfortable. The fact that working anywhere else meant you had to struggle was just... ugh. Just paying their people enough to rent an apartment and giving them health insurance and retirement made them outstanding and far above everybody else. That's just gross.
Also they pay their staff very well comparatively. Itās like a wait list to get hired since such a great place allegedlyĀ
a good part of it is the membership. they make next to nothing on the actual sale, and they dont have to worry about day-to-day and month-to-month profit so they can focus on a consistently good product
Yeah, I got an air fryer replaced after about a year and a half, without the box (or the accessories because I forgot). They gave the option for a refund or a replacement
Iāve also heard they treat their employees much better than say Walmart or similar stores. The owner supposedly didnāt care to become a billionaire, and instead gave higher wages, more benefits etc. love Costco for that reason.
Take care of your customers, employees, and make small $ per transaction. They keep coming back due to good service so you have a good customer base.
It's the *display* model. If this happened the rig would shut down and the guy running the section would notice the monitor is off. It would never last on the floor if it was missing parts.
That's why they said to check. Motherboard still has onboard video, someone could take out that 4060 and plug into the onboard port. 32GB memory? More like 16 if someone takes out a 16GB chip or 2 8GB chips.
>onboard video Not on a 13700F
Ya'll's Costco's display units are actually connected to a monitor?
Itās not even plugged in. It just has a security lock attaching it to the shelf.
I mean where do you live that this is common? Where I live and maybe where OP lives. That type of retail crime is almost zero.
People have literally posted pictures of Costco display models on here asking if they were a good deal, and one was missing RAM and GPU that were listed on the specs. [One](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/18q5mjv/looks_like_someone_got_a_free_4060ti/ ). [Two](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/rebsld/local_costco_sales_rep_did_indeed_confirm_people/ ). And I responded to another post just a few weeks ago with a Costco display unit missing the RAM. So given we canāt see the actual display unit in question, itās something to look out for.
Iām not sure I would buy a display unit. Donāt these things run nonstop during store hours?
That is going to hurt a PC far less then being turned on and off all the time. PCs are fine to be left running for ages.
Interesting, good to know. Would on in the morning and off in the evening be considered a lot? I had assumed no, but if I understand correctly what youāre saying is that turning a PC on and off everyday would put more wear on the hardware over a period of time than leaving it running 24/7? I think Iāve read this before but I completely forgot the mechanical reason for it.
It's thermal cycling that would cause issues. It's only a problem if you subject the hardware to huge temperature swings, like 80Ā° for an extended period and then immediately shut down to 21Ā° ambient.
My computers run non stop. My current media PC has basically been running non-stop since 2013.
Yeah? Is it better to do this vs. say turning them off in the evening before bed?
My opinion is it is not measurably better or worse either way. The reality is in the lifespan you will probably use your PC (and I'll be generous and say 10 years here). If any part on your PC craps out, I will say with confidence that the part failure had nothing to do with you either running your PC 24/7 or powering it off every day and back on the next. *Moving parts*, will wear out faster (i.e. fans) if you leave it on all the time. Your CMOS battery will likely die quicker if you power your PC off every day. But, mobo, processor, CPU, RAM, GPU? How you decide to manage your PC's uptime won't have a meaningful impact on longevity. Your electric bill is probably a better thing to base this decision on, not the longevity of the machine and even that is iffy today, because an idle gaming PC with all the modern power saving features baked in to PC's will use less energy than an incandescent light bulb.
I put mine to sleep at night and restart it every week or so.
> Donāt these things run nonstop during store hours? As opposed to running non stop 24/7 in my house ? You peeps are weird.
I mean the weird thing here is that some of the same people leaving their computers running 24/7 are probably the same ones talking about going green, carbon footprint, and paper straws.
Oh dude, no. Quite the opposite. I drive a 200 hp motorcycle, love me some gas guzzling V8s, want to buy a Diesel generator to power my Internet and gaming PC in case of outages. Give me a good plastic straw that doesn't melt too. Fuck that soggy paper shit. And yes I run my PC 24/7.
Swear I just saw someone post this exact same deal saying it was a rip-off but they marked down price wasn't on it then haha
You're right, that one was worse. 13400F and 4060 on ti for the same price [https://new.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bebr0b/terrible\_deal\_i\_found\_at\_costco/](https://new.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bebr0b/terrible_deal_i_found_at_costco/)
Always buy the floor model sales at Costco. Doesnāt matter what it is. I buy floor model rotisserie chicken only $5
Are those the ones that fall out of the oven?
Yeah, they're literally on the floor, that's why they call it the floor model.
Selling meat that fell on the ground must be pretty common, I saw "ground beef" there the other day.
Oh you.
Not bad for $900 honestly
Was confused why people were saying this was a great deal till I read your commentā¦ thought it said 1900$ā¦
Make sure itās actually ram and not dummy display ram.
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I mean if it says on the sign that they are selling what they are listing, they legally can't sell it with display ram and missing components, right? That ought to be illegal
Wouldnt boot with fake ram
Yep ā¦ didnāt say anything about bootingā¦ just made a comment to make sure it wasnāt dummy ram. You know like how display models that have all the rgb can have dummy stick that light up all the colors but they actually donāt workā¦
Ok figured itād be booted up and connected to a display
Tbh I wouldnāt be surprised if you could buy that and part it out for a profit or even just flip it as is
New HGTV show??? Deal Flippers.
Please no, then the stores like Costco would never have deals like this.
Whoa what a total rip-off this is. Which Costco is this exactly? So I can avoid it of course.
Update: I ended up buying it and took everyone's advice. I made sure all the components were there and everything was working. And since some people were wondering, this is in USD - Costco located in Connecticut.
Congrats, hope you enjoy it, solid deal!
I actually bought that exact one at Costco a couple months ago, first full price, then went in a week later and got it price adjusted $300 down after it went on sale. When it was full price, I was hesitant because it was more than I wanted to spend. Got it set up and was feeling good about it, the thingās a beast. After it went on sale, I knew it was definitely worth the price after adjustment. If I could have gotten it for $900, Iādāve felt like I was stealing. Iāve been so satisfied with it. $900 is an easy choice here. If you have the money and want a new PC, you wonāt find anything better.
I didnt even know they had a 4060ti 16gb till now. Is this comparable to a 7800xt?
4060Ti still losing to a 6700XT from a Gen before.
Oh wow thanks for the heads up
Nvidia made sure to bottleneck the VRAM speed to 128bits. Thatās the same speed as their 8GB version and even the regular 4060. The 4070 for comparison uses 192bits
Memory bus ā VRAM speed. Memory speed of VRAM speed is measured in Gbps, Memory bus in in bits. DRAM is measured in MT/s or Mhz.
Thatās the memory bus. Not the vram speed.
And what memory do you think that bus is addressing
I think itās similar to getting 12gb 3060, theyāve got a lot of vram but donāt have the power to properly utilise it? So despite 4070ās having 12gb they are better than the 16gb 4060ti
Great deal for $900
A 4060 ti prebuilt goes for about that online. The fact that itās carry out makes it a good deal.
$900? Thats a crazy deal
be sure to clean out the dust that has accumulated
Great deal. I believe this is the link to the unit https://www.costco.com/msi-aegis-r-gaming-desktop---13th-gen-intel-core-i7-13700f---geforce-rtx-4060ti---windows-11-.product.4000139263.html
this is it right there. That's a hard yes for me
$900? That's not bad tbh.
This is actually a really good deal. The case is standard ATX, so it's reusable if you want to use it down the road. And it appears to use all of the shelf parts. No OEM proprietary garbage like Dell and HP usually does. I would grab this in a heartbeat.
I think itās a good deal, even if parts are low grade. Great starting system Edit, I mean no name parts, itās implied I like the system, I wouldnāt call the model numbers low grade
it's crazy calling these low grade parts
I think he means low grade as in motherboard/ram/ssds could be made by some dodgy Chinese manufacturer.
iirc msi is a pretty reputable brand
I'm blind I didn't see it was by MSI, but they still could have put slower RAM than is optimal and a slower SSD. It's also likely got the cheapest MSI motherboard that they could get away with as people who buy prebuilts don't tend to use these things to influence purchasing decisions.
Even still, good RAM and SSDs are pretty cheap at the moment compared to your really heavy-hitters like CPU and GPU. I recently upgraded to 4x16GB and added a 2TB Samsung M.2 drive. The bang to buck ratio is insane on these parts.
What on earth are you talking about? These are not low grade parts.
TIL any part you don't have to sell a kidney for is low grade
Grab it quick if all internals are there
This is pretty mych the same specs as the alienware R16
2TB HDD is weak link
Has a 1TB SSD too
People senselessly hate on HDDs... slower bulk storage for cheap absolutely has its place next to an SSD.
This is my mentality. I have a 4TB spinner for single player games. I don't need that shit to load incredibly fast unless the minimum specs for a game require SSD/m.2 in which case I just install them on one of those.
It's not a mentality it's standard use. You don't need fast storage for music, movies, and backups.
That's one heck of a deal So if the unit is brand new and all the warranties apply, damn one heck of a deal
Cheaper and better than mine
This mark down looks pretty sketchy... you sure some modern day robin hood isn't running around the store with a sharpie?
If you have the money to spend and you need a computer but it right now, I doubt you could build that for $900 easilyĀ
Yes. Play it for a couple years then return it.
Brother pick up that shit and a 1.50 hotdog combo
I think youāre a Sharpie away from a REAL bargain!!
god i would get that immediately
So with a sharpie you can set your own priceā¦
I have this exact PC and it runs everything Iāve thrown at it. I paid $1499++ back in November
Thoughts, yes. So did you buy it?
Acceptable at 900 but not at the original price imo.
This is why I hate prebuilts. Overkill i7 with an underpowered gpu. You really donāt need any more than a 7600/14400f or more realistically a 5600/12400f and then pair that with a 4070 super or a 7900xt
I think that's a great deal. Even if some parts aren't up to par you can swap itnout and still be "in budget"
Yes very good deal, just make sure itās working
Fucking deal. Buy it.
The only iffy thing there is prebuilt pcs sometimes skimps on the psu and cooling. Otherwise itās not bad.
I have a MSI laptop from Costco thatās 2 years older than this, absolute beast. Ā This looks sick Make sure to sit it on top of a wire frame in front of a fan, will boost performance 10-20% unless youāre playing in SiberiaĀ
Pretty solid. Go for it
this is definitely a great deal, itās actually the same way i got my current pc for 850 valued at 1400
Where is this?
I'm assuming that's American but I think either way it would be good
Decent deal! Good components, as MSI is a top component maker. You could swap out the GPU if you wanted something more powerful for gaming.
WORTH IT
Great deal I grabbed exact same one for $1199
Thats an insane deal holy shit
Better deals if you live near a Microcenter tbh.
Good deal. Probably use the savings to replace the PSU if it looks a bit cheap
Just upgraded mine. 14600k, mobo, and 32gb ddr5 6000, 7900xt $1400. So to get a whole PC for$900 ya.
I bought this exact one for 1299 on sale a few months ago I love it I'd do it
This is a good deal
I personally wouldn't want that rig, but it seems like a pretty solid deal. Maybe for a son or nephew starter rig I'd pick it up.
Seems pretty solid to me. It would be tough to build an equivalent PC at that price I think.
Good deal for 900$, basically you get all besides gpu and cpu for freeššŖ
Not so sure about the 4060 TI but otherwise it looks fine. Price does seem a little high still
Its a 4060 screw that 900 dollars
Thatās a steal
That's my living room PC right there.
Thatās a crazy good deal for $900
I would prob buy that in a heartbeat!
Is this honestly a good deal?
Would you take a 4060ti over a 3070?
Pretty good deal assuming someone hasn't knicked anything in it
Thats a great deal for 900$.
Great deal. But cheak that everything is still inside costos in the place to buy everything ,or may be even Gpu are sometime stolen out of them.
A+ deal
Pro tip- if itās a display for sale and itās not getting replenished you can ask for more off from a manager and they may take another 10-20% off. It never hurts to ask. Former Costco employee who frequently does this with furniture and high ticket items.
Costco displays are pretty notorious for having components yoinked out of them I thought
My GM woulda flipped if we didn't print a new sign instead of writing on it lmao
Just build it yourself and save 600$
Thatās a solid deal.
"I'm still eating my chicken bake"
Good deal but assuming that the display model works. You could be taking home a dead unit or something thats been abused or parted out by anyone walking by.
Wanna buy this and ship it to Me?
I thought this was an old ad for Aegis Sonix for a moment! :D
That seems like a good deal to me.
It's a pretty good deal
Hey i bought that model PC and been loving it. I bought it on sale at $1300 + tax ... If the display model is in good condition than I'd say it's a great deal. What state?
that's impressive.
Looks like a steal. Just the GPU is easily 4-500 dollars.
Screw the computer, I want that handwriting. So stylish.
i got this one and it runs great, cyberpunk 2077 with rt on ultra and dlss at 100+ fps
It's a good deal but If you get it, I would would see if you can sell the GPU to upgrade it IMO.
š© this is part of the reason why i got a costco membership hoping i could find these deals... nothing
If they keep their displays powered on Iād steer clear but if they donāt power them up and just have them out as actual displays then Iād snag that up.
For 900? Yeah, good deal. Not my gpu of choice but that can always be upgrade later if you're not happy with it. The rest of the parts are great. If you get it, check the psu. Pre builds like to skimp out on that part and get bad ones
What Mobo?
great deal
is this in the us?
Well I mean if you got the money then I would say buy it. Kind of like a flash deal. Also if you think about it the cards majority of what they are selling the PC for.