Digitimes: PC players host summit to find cure for ill China PC DIY market

[Martimus]

You can do that with a Dell also.

How exactly are you going to do that? Take out the components you don't want to keep, then ship the remaining components back to dell and have them build a new computer around them? I can't imagine that being anywhere near as cost effective as just buying and placing the components yourself, even if they do offer this service.

 

[Arsynic]

countries by purchasing power parity per capita (in US dollars)
USA - $45,934
Canada $-37,947
United Kingdom - $34,388
Mexico - $13,609
China - $6,778


You know those people dirt poor Mexicans who jump the boarder into the US in hopes of getting an awesome job like working at McDonalds for minimum wage? All of them are thinking "thank god I don't live in China, that would sure suck ass"
Even homeless Americans who smoke meth all day have more money than the average Chinese worker. The DIY market's biggest problem is figuring out how to sell things to people who are more poor than you have ever seen in your life.

China has over a billion people. A large portion of those people are dirt poor. The gap between rich and poor in China is much larger than it is in the U.S. so those statistics mean nothing.

 

[nyker96]

countries by purchasing power parity per capita (in US dollars)
USA - $45,934
Canada $-37,947
United Kingdom - $34,388
Mexico - $13,609
China - $6,778


You know those people dirt poor Mexicans who jump the boarder into the US in hopes of getting an awesome job like working at McDonalds for minimum wage? All of them are thinking "thank god I don't live in China, that would sure suck ass"
Even homeless Americans who smoke meth all day have more money than the average Chinese worker. The DIY market's biggest problem is figuring out how to sell things to people who are more poor than you have ever seen in your life.

I think you got this completely wrong. With increasing wages from economic expansion, Chinese purchasing power has increased by leaps and bounds. This is makes buying prebuilds totally within reach. To be honest going DIY is to save money, prebuilds are more expensive per equipment they offer.

PS: this thread needs to be moved, has nothing to do w/ CPU.

 

[cbn]

How exactly are you going to do that? Take out the components you don't want to keep, then ship the remaining components back to dell and have them build a new computer around them? I can't imagine that being anywhere near as cost effective as just buying and placing the components yourself, even if they do offer this service.

I was mistakenly thinking Dell was ATX and regular DIY parts could be swapped back in by the home builder. (ie, No need to ship computers back to Dell).

PS: this thread needs to be moved, has nothing to do w/ CPU.

I think the main point is becoming DIY=overclocking.....and with overclocking the performance of a CPU can become much greater than any Factory built computer using even the most expensive CPU SKU.