PC Price has reduced since ordering? But PC isn't being built yet.

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EdanC

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Hey,
on the 20th May, I placed an order for a PC build and just today showed a buddy of mine the specs that I've chosen as they're looking for the same build.
I've noticed that the exact same specs, including the case, delivery etc.. Is £88 cheaper now. I mean, this is good for him. But I kinda feel bummed that my PC still is in pre-production and I've paid more.
Could PCS match the new price at all?

Cheers,
Edan


Here's the specs:
I paid £5,838.00
It's now available at: £5,750.00


Case
FRACTAL DEFINE 7 XL BLACK QUIET TOWER CASE
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked AMD Threadripper 3970X 32 Core (3.7GHz @ up to 4.3GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA (DDR4, Wi-Fi 6, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (8 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
2nd M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
3rd M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW & SOFTWARE
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster MasterLiquid ML360 RGB TR4 High Performance Liquid Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
2 PORT (1 x TYPE A, 1 x TYPE C) USB 3.1 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI (BEFORE 2PM)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 15 to 18 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book - United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Logo Branding
PCSpecialist Logo
 
SpyderTracks

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Prices change all the time, when you press the purchase button you enter into a standard financial agreement at that moment, it's like buying a custom car and then the price reducing by £2000 whilst it's still being built, you aren't entitled to the cheaper price as you signed the contract earlier than the new price existed.
 
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SlimCini

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What's it for? Could be a perfect excuse to cancel that monstrosity and buy something more sensible as I can't imagine many uses where that spec would be a good buy!
 
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SlimCini said:
What's it for? Could be a perfect excuse to cancel that monstrosity and buy something more sensible as I can't imagine many uses where that spec would be a good buy!
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I would tend to agree, need to know the use case as it's a bit all over the place.
 
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EdanC

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SlimCini said:
What's it for? Could be a perfect excuse to cancel that monstrosity and buy something more sensible as I can't imagine many uses where that spec would be a good buy!
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Thanks for the response, both of you.
Regarding what it's for? It's a video editing computer. How is this all over the place/monstrosity?
 
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EdanC said:
Thanks for the response, both of you.
Regarding what it's for? It's a video editing computer. How is this all over the place/monstrosity?
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Ah, for video editing it’s decent. Incorrectly assumed it was a gaming rig, my bad.
 
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EdanC

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SpyderTracks said:
Ah, for video editing it’s decent. Incorrectly assumed it was a gaming rig, my bad.
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I appreciate the willingness to give advice - I can imagine some people have spent unnecessary money.
However, I've carefully research into optimal performance with Adobe Premiere Pro. 32coreTR, Multiple m.2 drives for Cache, Project Files & Scratch, 2080ti & fast ram is required. Many thanks to Pugent Systems for their in-depth tests and research:

One thing though, I didn't intend to get a 1200W power supply, that's what was available at the time of order :)

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EdanC said:
One thing though, I didn't intend to get a 1200W power supply, that's what was available at the time of order
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Yeah, I thought that, there's been a general shortage of PSU's worldwide, amongst other components.

Sorry for the hasty judgement, shouldn't have assumed it was for gaming.

That's a beast of a build for video editing, that CPU is an absolute monster!
 
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EdanC said:
Thanks!
I always appreciate your comments, I'm learning a lot from what you've written on other threads & general support.
I've been using Macs for nearly 10 years! First PC in a long time!
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You'll be amazed at the difference this one does to your editing.... just night and day from a Mac. I recently built a 3950x build for a friend who'd moved from a Mac Pro for data science, it reduced his processing job from over 30 minutes down to under 5! It actually cycled through a few times before he realised it had already completed. He was blown away.
 
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EdanC

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Amazing! That's great to hear.
I believe for most performance creative needs, Windows are going to lead the way. Theirs only so much Apple tax before people jump ship.
Can't wait to try this PC when it arrives!
 
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SlimCini

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In which case, beast mode PC. I don't have an AMD chip so this may be wrong, but overclocking them is supposed to make them worse isn't it?
 
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SlimCini said:
In which case, beast mode PC. I don't have an AMD chip so this may be wrong, but overclocking them is supposed to make them worse isn't it?
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Only for single threaded applications like gaming as it will reduce the peak frequency to the highest of the weakest core. AMD auto boosts on the strongest cores which will be a lot higher than what’s possible on the weaker cores.

For multi threaded such as editing, it will give an all core overclock which should gain about 10%.
 
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