Saying that a $12 price is reasonable if materials and component acquisition alone is $8 is not a reasonable assumption unless the company is doing direct sales, has loads of free warehouse space and has the cheapest labor available - and even then it sounds like a stretch. And given the need for high quality shielded cabling and relatively complex/fine soldering for a good riser cable I see why they aren't cheap. If not (which would be the case for 99% of case manufacturers - most of them don't even make their own internal USB cables) they would be paying what the cable OEM wants, which includes all of the above + margins to cover other expenses + trying to make a profit. that needs to be factored into the sales price. Thus the absence of such listings is a strong indication that such parts aren't available at those prices.Īs for equating BOM costs to what OEMs pay - that only applies if they make their own cables, but in which case they also have labor and the sunk cost of manufacturing equipment etc.
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There's a giant thread full of this over on the forumsĬlick to expand.They aren't for me either (though there's a lot of good stuff on TaoBao if you know what you're doing, and a lot of good deals to be had on AE if you know what you're doing and are willing to take the risk - I've bought an excellent quality ADT-link riser there, for example), but my point was simply that any product in an attractive category such as PCIe risers that is easily and cheaply available from OEMs in East Asia will inevitably be sold on sites like these by dozens of resellers with very slim margins and subsequently very low prices. Still, if you're into that sort of thing there are dozens of more affordable options (both copies of more established designs and a lot of original designs) in the 4-15l range on TaoBao - you just have to go through an agent like Superbuy and live with the delays and lead times of small-scale manufacturing. Still, tooling even for a small mass-produced case can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to manufacture. There's also the issue of lack of economics of scale in the SFF space - due to compatibility issues and the sheer number of different layouts possible it's really hard to reach sufficient sales volumes to make cases cheaper - though hopefully we'll see developments of cases like the InWin A1 or Corsair QBX moving to SFX PSUs in the near future for some more space savings. The NEO Qube dual-chamber chassis provides everything you need to showcase your high-end system without the price tag.Ĭlick to expand."Regardless of build quality, as long as it's built to last" is a rather contradictory statement.Īlso, sandwich-layout cases aren't becoming that cheap any time soon simply due to the requirement for a quality PCIe riser cable, which is easily a $30 cost to the manufacturer - which will obviously become higher than that when passed on to the end user.
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