where to get custom PC in BKK?

[CaptHaddock]

For my next pc I want the custom configuration below. Can someone recommend a dealer to build it, at Pantip, for example? Since I don't have experience with such a transaction here, how would it work? I would not be willing to pay in advance, although I would pay a small deposit, if strictly necessary. I would want to test it running linux off a thumb drive before accepting it. Any recommendations on how to make the purchase with risking a lemon or fake components?

i7 duo cpu

desktop chassis

8GB DDR3 ram

2 x Samsun 840 Pro 512GB SSD = 1TB

dvdrw

plain keyboard, wired

led mouse, wired

[h90]

jedi on the ground floor, but there are 100 others.

Instead of linux you might let them install windows, you can delete it later anyway and no one wants to wait for your testings.

[Mario2008]

There are enough chain shops who do a decent job.

Such as:

advice

J.I.B

Banana-It

Invade-It

Google them, most will have several shops in BKK. You go to the shop, tell them what you want and configure your computer. You pick-up the computer assembled and well about 1 to 2 hours later.

[h90]

invadeit get a big +

but they send from Hua Hin

[kkerry]

Asking a shop to build a 50,000+ baht computer, conditional on it running Linux from a flash drive... you might be expecting a bit much I think but no harm in asking.

[sammycic]

J.I.B. built mine and very happy what they did. So easy work exactly what you want and they just put it together in a couple of hours. Printed out receipt with all the warranties on it. Paid 1000bht deposit and the balance when they showed me it all hooked up and running.

[h90]

J.I.B. built mine and very happy what they did. So easy work exactly what you want and they just put it together in a couple of hours. Printed out receipt with all the warranties on it. Paid 1000bht deposit and the balance when they showed me it all hooked up and running.

often the shops put too much of the coolant paste between cooler and CPU. But this isn't a problem unless you overclock and than you would anyway replace the stock cooler

[h90]

Asking a shop to build a 50,000+ baht computer, conditional on it running Linux from a flash drive... you might be expecting a bit much I think but no harm in asking.

I doubt someone knows about linux, so you would have to find out yourself which components work.

But if you ask you want to try first and deposit some money + promise some healthy tipp for the time "no this Graphic hard doesn't work, may I try the other one instead......" I think some shop would be OK.

[keeniau96]

You have not listed several key components, notably the PSU and video card. Talk to the gents at Jedi Cool on Pantip ground floor or at TK Computing just down the hallway from Jedi. Around TK there are several enthusiast shops who can do very well for you, look for the tall coolers in the display windows. You will see some really special custom computers at work in those places and they can certainly meet your fairly simple requirements.

[Richard-BKK]

J.I.B. built mine and very happy what they did. So easy work exactly what you want and they just put it together in a couple of hours. Printed out receipt with all the warranties on it. Paid 1000bht deposit and the balance when they showed me it all hooked up and running.

often the shops put too much of the coolant paste between cooler and CPU. But this isn't a problem unless you overclock and than you would anyway replace the stock cooler

The stock cooler of a Intel i7 processor doesn't use coolant paste, it's has a thin film which works in a similar way as the traditional coolant past.

[phazey]

Thread Hijack!

Can someone give me a Pantip Price check please? I'm over in a few weeks and wondering to hold off on buying and get in in The 'Kok

Intel i5 3750k or 4750k (3.5-3.9Ghz)

Z87 Motherboard (half decent)

16GB high speed ram.

[kkerry]

phazey, sticky at the top of the page has links to Compute & more, JIB, JediCool and Busitek. Pricelists on all of those sites for you.

I'd go for socket 1150, so 4570k.

[phazey]

Thanks for that (browsing at work in a very minimized window).

Compared prices for an i5 4670k - seems about £13 cheaper in JIB and a straight Amazon deal....

[sammycic]

asrock z87 extreme 4 motherboard 4,860 from J.I.B with i5 4570. Forgotten price on the cpu. So happy with it. Intel integrated graphics H4600 excellent.

[falkan]

When is the next processor coming, i7 been out on the market for a while now..?

[kkerry]

Broadwell 14nm late 2014

[CaptHaddock]

I expect to go into Jedi and maybe another Pantip shop to get a price for the components similar to what I posted above which I will install myself. I've already checked all the prices on their website. So, I have 2 questions:

1. I don't expect to pay VAT on top of the website prices and will assume if they attempt to add it on, that they are scamming me. Is that correct? A VAT is not a sales tax, after all.

2. If I present a list of components totaling abour 40k baht will they give a discount for the lot? How much should I expect?

[innerspace]

Any reputable shop is required to charge VAT, it is a sales tax.

One man bands may be exempt under low turnover rules.

Though I have always seen it included in prices and not added after, so no probs.

Some may do discounts but normally only if they overprice initially.

One of the main shops I use will typically discount 100B on a 40K deal...but then it was cheap to start with!

[Briandajew]

invadeit get a big +

but they send from Hua Hin

I would give a big thumbs up to Invadeit as far as the quality of components that they sell...and usually their delivery...(they FUXXcked up my order delivery this week for the first time - big surprise! but that is once over a period of years and I must have spent well over 100K with these guys and they are very very good!)

As far as some of the other recomendations go - well sorry but I would not touch Banana with a bargepole - here in Chiang Mai they will sell you any old shit just to get your cash - The other one to avoid is Goodspeed, they again will destroy everything on your PC if you take it for repair - make sure you back up everything first as they will trash it - they will install pirate software and you will have no back up CD's best avoid them both.

I build my own systems these days, frankly because most of the Thai installs are buggered up as they can barely understand the english yes or no when the system requires a decision...they just keep clicking NEXT! try repairing it after their techs have been at it...not in a million years!

As Aldous Huxley once said..."Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"....a pretty good summary of Thailand from any point of view!

[CaptHaddock]

Thanks for the advice. In the end I bought the components at Jedi and assembled it myself. Everything worked in linux and the prices were good. Khun Jim at Jedi was very helpful. Although she didn't have the case I wanted, she worked the phone calling other dealers until she found one. That's an efficient network they have there.

Those SSD drives are certainly a step-up in performance.

[sniffdog]

Jedicool is a good choice. I've been using them for years. However, they do not install dodgy windows anymore after getting problems with the men in brown.

jedi on the ground floor, but there are 100 others.

Instead of linux you might let them install windows, you can delete it later anyway and no one wants to wait for your testings.

[draftvader]

I have to throw in tk.com (ground and 3rd floor Pantip). They have built 3 systems for me and they have all been perfect with every detail managed brilliantly and a 1 year build warranty.