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Originally Posted by Robostang 548
Thats a good point. But I suppose if a pc system did get expensive enough you could individually price each component. We got ours on ebay for less than $100 and it included the ram and processor.
-Don
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Unrelated to this thread, but I'd be a little uncomfortable using a price off eBay for my cost accounting. The GDC often notes that you need to use COTS Supplier prices for things, and I'm not sure any old eBay store would count. I'm quite certain a personal auction of sale wouldn't.
I'm not saying you can't get parts from such places, but you certainly need to get a price from a more standard retailer like NewEgg or something. And if you can't find that particular system at a standard retailer, then you'd need to price individual parts and add it all up. Of course if you can't even find the parts at a standard retailer, then you're in a pretty difficult position since they wouldn't be legal. The reasoning there being similar to the reason we can't use our nice non-jittery kit joysticks from 4 years ago and instead have to use the current kit joysticks or find passable modern substitutes.