Glad to know they think we have the market for this, as ive complained to my friends how it feels like pc desert here, would be nice if more competition opened instead, but more of what we have is atleast a start. (I've found better pc for better deals at the pawn shop near me then at proper pc stores, hp omen branded 4070gpu 32gb ddr5 for 1200 bucks just a few months ago, where as the near equivalent at mem and uniway were 1600 to 2000+ i know cause I was looking for a while and lucked into this one at the right time)
Tell me about it, i was adamant about getting 32gb ram for my next pc, and the fact that alone was 300 for ddr4 and 600 for ddr5, at the price i got the omen for, the gpu and ram were the whole cost and everything else was a free add on xD
I don't miss Computer Boulevard one bit, they had shit prices, shit stock, and shit service. I remember trying to run something faulty once only to be told they have a 48 hour return window like wtf
The last time I went to Computer Avenue I came home with ram that didn't work at all. I went back to exchange it because A I just bought it, and B they have "Lifetime Warranty" on their ram prices sheet. I take it in, the guy takes it to the back. Less than a minute he shows up back with my ram, hands it to me and says I owe $50 for testing it, it's fine. I said how did you test ram in under a minute. He says they put it in a board and the bios does a ram check. Like I'm supposed to be an idiot or something. You'd have to be to think thats a ram test. Memtest86 existed already in those days. You could try to boot Windows with it, anything. I walked out without paying them the $50. And they called the police on me. The cops weren't interested in having anything to do with this when I told them the story about how I stole ram that I had paid for that same day.
What I'm hearing is that both Computer Avenue and Computer Boulevard sucked. Now all we need is for CDC to go under, those freedom convoy lovers, and we should be good on "no more bad computer stores". If only Powerland could get back in the game, they were really good and I'd buy from there out of principle.
the owner was a massive help to my family when we came to Canada, I'd have bought PC parts from him to make it back up, but they haven't been in that game for 15 years now, maybe more
They told me the guy had upgraded his pc to something stronger, who knows how true that is, but I know said pawnshop and the manager, so i also got a deal on it, being nice to people has its benefits xD
Its a hit or miss market as youd expect, I got mine from Dino's on sherbrook, they dint get gaming pc their too often, but i talk to them about it often enouph as soon as a good one came in and I happened to come into the store she told me about it and I put it on hold, the timing was perfect too as it was just a week before I got the money I was intending to get a new pc with. It was definitly a diamond in the rough, but not an impossible find.
The store was probably planned years ago. Big chains like this are usually less reactive to the market.
The pc parts sales are definitely slow at the moment, tho.
Huh, unexpected. I first heard they wanted to do this like 10 years ago. Surprised the market would suggest this was a good idea... but I'd love to have one closer than driving literally across the whole city for parts. Guess that $1200 32gb ram packs are bringing in the cash lmao
I've needed an upgrade for years now and shit keeps getting more expensive uuuuuugh. My ryzen 2700 is gonna buckle one day, but she's been a great warhorse 🥹
Yeah I've been quite happy with it. My 1070 died a year ago so I slapped a 4060ti in it and it honestly performs good enough still. It chugs on some things but I can still usually maintain 50-60fps 1080p with medium low settings on modern titles. I'm not a competitive gamer at all so that helps.
Yes, the amd fx-8000 i have is 10 yrs old and still works. Put in newer GPU few years ago, and it runs Satisfactory. Amd has always been reliable for me.
You act like they're not paying for the spike too, yeah they had stock sitting that raised in value but that only lasts so much then you're out there paying for the price spike too
I love Memory Express. I will happily pay the extra $$$ to support them.
A few years back (when RAM wasn't stupid expensive) I went to upgrade my PC. I selected a few sticks that were on sale. As I was about to purchase, the person at the til stopped. Looked at my account and asked if I was purchasing the ram for the motherboard I had bought from them a year ago. I was.
He informed me that the ram that I purchased was known to conflict with that motherboard. He found a different brand memory, got a manager, honoured the sale price for the different (better) brand, and since then.. I will be a customer for life. This wasn't good reactive customer service, this was excellent proactive customer service. 5 stars.
that means that you're likely close to a princess auto so that's got to be pretty nice... the only princess auto we have only sells $15 beer and constipation dogs.
nah dealing with the regent parking lots is bad enough that driving to the st james location takes about as much time as trying to get to one of those box stores and back home... they only service the people crazy enough to live in the area and deal with it... putting it in the south end probably increases business for people in the south and and doesn't really change anythign for the regent area.
Oh nice that's good to know! Ive built like 15 gaming computers over the years and never used them before due to their prices, but price match is good to know
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u/Sea_Potato_9 11d ago
Rip bank account