Need help building the best system.

[Silentsnake]

Yeah good luck with this...

There was a company that catered for high end custom machines that looked pretty good too and were too very expensive.

They were called Vadim and very recently went in to liquidation

I was just about to say the same thing lol, they basically tried and did it but went in to liquidation as soon as the credit crunch hit! the custom built all their cases they put the best of the best and unfortunantly selling one computer here and there just isnt worth the effort or time put in to the case mods and builds

where in the country are you from if you dont mind me askings cos if you are in the uk i would love to work for you seriously

 

[lcpiper]

As it turns out I live in Arizona, USA. I have been overseas to Germany, Korea (wife is Korean), and Iraq. The life of a Military Contractor. I even flew through Ireland on my way to Iraq but although I would have loved a chance to poke around the country it was not to be. I missed an assignment to England back around 1966 and I still blame it on my wife. I should have accepted the assignment and told her we were going instead of calling to ask if she wanted to go. Live and learn.

And yes, there may not be a market that will support something like this. As I look harder I realize that every computer I sell is another I must support and that would be the straw to break my back. I could build them and sell them but how can I do all that and support them by myself. Specificly, how can I fly to Sanata Fe, NM to work on a computer at so-and-so's summer resort and then fly back to L.A. and hit Chicago and still build and sell new machines. In no time I would need employees and I would wind up a manager and not a builder, Blah. I should just make good furniture

 

[Silentsnake]

As it turns out I live in Arizona, USA. I have been overseas to Germany, Korea (wife is Korean), and Iraq. The life of a Military Contractor. I even flew through Ireland on my way to Iraq but although I would have loved a chance to poke around the country it was not to be. I missed an assignment to England back around 1966 and I still blame it on my wife. I should have accepted the assignment and told her we were going instead of calling to ask if she wanted to go. Live and learn.

And yes, there may not be a market that will support something like this. As I look harder I realize that every computer I sell is another I must support and that would be the straw to break my back. I could build them and sell them but how can I do all that and support them by myself. Specificly, how can I fly to Sanata Fe, NM to work on a computer at so-and-so's summer resort and then fly back to L.A. and hit Chicago and still build and sell new machines. In no time I would need employees and I would wind up a manager and not a builder, Blah. I should just make good furniture

Or recrute people all around the globe to cover certain regions i could cover the UK

 

[lamboman]

Voodoo isn't history, they are still going under the Voodoo brand name.

Smooth Creations are a relative new comer, before they were, and still are, doing custom paintjobs for some of the boutiques, most famously, Falcon Northwest. They only started building PCs themselves relatively recently.

This is a pretty bad time to start a PC business unfortunately. With more people building their own systems than ever before, and the boutique business (Vadim as an example) being as competitive as it is, it will be very difficult to get in. Savrow, another company over here in Britain, were the peak of luxury PCs, but they vanished too unfortunately.

Custom cases is a good idea, and people will probably be interested in that. But, that again is expensive, and the exact reason why Vadim ended up in their position now. They had a new case designed, but couldn't support it with all of their other plan (expansion to other countries).

Flying to people's homes? People are probably not always going to be the most technical customers, and you won't be able to offer support to them for things other than the system (hardware, OS optimization etc). You'll be flying everywhere (great opportunity to go to new places!). Remote desktop would work great though.

I wish you all the success, but to get going, it will be very difficult, especially as a US company, where the boutique market is most competitive. Voodoo probably cater quite heavily for the luxury market, so you'll have them to compete against strongly (among several others that I could name).

 

[TJS]

One thing I realized between this thread and the one about the Cooler Master Centurion 590... we need a new pc case maker for high end builders. The thing I hate the most is that a lot of cases have no room between the side of the mobo and where the HDDs/optical drives/floppy drive (if you still have one) go. My latest build will be a mATX mid-tower, and space is cramped. You'd be amazed at what a little more space could do, talking an inch to an inch and a half... so much cleaner. Cable clutter is a b**** also, a little width to the case can mean the difference between a bunch of cables lying in the open and hiding where you don't have to see them or fight them when doing work on your pc's insides.

There are lots of good makers out now, like CM, Lian Li, Silverstone, NZXT, Mountain Mods... but most companies are stuck making the same stuff.

One area I'd try to make my niche is watercooled cases where the watercooling is all on the inside (what my next build will be all about). From mid-tower cases for mATX to ATX full tower, designed with minimal fans necessary to keep the components cool and the water flowing, easy access to watercooling components, placement so tubes aren't running wild inside the case...

You get the idea.

TJS

*I also thought of making my own high-end pc company, FTASM... Faster Than A Speeding Mullet. Yes, it was going to be glorious, and out of it would grow 'Shoot The Moose! Industries', sprouting out into all the pc component fields. Alas and alack, it has not meant to be...

 

[Bondi007]

Meet the ThermalTake Mozart TX

Your plan is amazing and I wish you the best of look

 

[anklebiter]

bah curse the economy atm!

I blame it on you Americans- hehe well not really, but u're very handy for blaming.

Good luck with your Ubber systems, even if u dont build many more, the one your building at the mo seems, pretty scary if u can afford the dual ssds as well as 4 velocerraptors..

Regards Ollie