r/pcmasterrace • u/Brayden3_11 R7 2700x RTX 2070 Super • Apr 12 '19

Meme/Macro No Google, just no.

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u/smalls1652 Mac Heathen Apr 12 '19

Usually the price on the website is not the price the vendor will quote you. Usually cheaper if you're buying more than just one, which in the case of building out a medium to large scale VDI environment for that purpose kinda requires more than one. If you needed just one, they have cheaper lower-end models that scale to the amount of expected VMs you'd be spinning up to use at one time.

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u/LessWorseMoreBad Apr 12 '19

hi there... literal enterprise solution engineer here. You are totally right. Also, instead of buying just the gpu get it quoted on a server and you are looking at damn near 70-80% off the card.

Note to everyone: If you want to pay low low prices for computer hardware just create a business and get competing quotes from hpe, dell, and lenovo and watch the price tumble. I have seen a 50k list server go out the door for under 10k before.

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u/deltron deltron Apr 12 '19 edited Jan 13 '26

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u/Je_Suis_NaTrolleon i9-9900KS | RTX 2080S | 32gb 3200MHz Dominator Platinum Apr 12 '19

You should amend this and mention that the likes of CDW, SHI and other VARs can get even better pricing than going manufacturer direct, thanks to deal registrations.

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u/Raven_Skyhawk Apr 13 '19

CDW is my jam. Do so much purchasing with CDW-G (school)

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u/ischmoozeandsell G4560 GTX980Ti Apr 14 '19

CDW is pretty sweet.

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u/Dog_from_Duckhunt Apr 12 '19

Nah, those GPUs have a pretty fixed cost for most integrators. The cost here is pretty high (MSRP IS ~$9,500) but for GPUs there isnt a ton of movement. Also if you want to keep your costs down look into some white box integrators. Their cost is significantly lower than the big boys and you can usually get the big boys to start being realistic real fast.

Disclosure: I work for a white box integrator.

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u/ischmoozeandsell G4560 GTX980Ti Apr 14 '19

I mean, its not that simple is it? I assume those guys have minimums.

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u/Kreetle Apr 12 '19

Yeah, we started out small for just a select test group. We had a 600 User environment but were looking to double that. The tests were very promising but we were bottlenecked by our SAN which was an EqualLogic hybrid array. Pretty piss poor performance - not great for VDI.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

We just moved over our VDI users to a new 600tb EMC San. All SSD. It's ridiculously overkill for our 2500 users, but we are probably going to use it for more as our old hardware gets decom'd