r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Striking-Diamond-602 • 1d ago
$175,000 PC-Build of a Mayor
This was apparently procured for 10 Million Pesos ($175,000) by a Mayor of a local town.
This is an on-going scandal/fiasco in the Philippines, where these shady procurements are unearthed.
Mildly infuriating at the very least.
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u/Cloud_Station 1d ago
Is this what they use to run Crysis?
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u/Ambitious-Beat-2130 1d ago
No side panel, that'll save him at least $ 25,000,-
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u/iTmkoeln 1d ago
Only 5 screws in the board. The bottom right seems to be missing.
Another 50,000 saved 🤷♂️
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u/Orange_up_my_ass 1d ago
Im assuming it has a shitload of super expemsive external GPU's, otherwise that thing is a pc case with a PSU, MB and Fan.
Edit: OOOOOOH ok yeah it's the second, this is about the mayor lying about the cost.
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u/Thund3r_91 1d ago
That whole country is rife with corruption. It's a top to bottom thing. Maybe the president who was elected by the Filipino people who have such short memories should get his family to pay back the billions of dollar they stole from the country and that have still not been recovered. So OK go bang a mayor here and lowly official there... WTF!
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u/ohshititshappeningrn 1d ago
Looks like we have the same problem in the US. Donny boy owes us money. Where my kneecapper 9000?
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u/earthcomedy 23h ago
Let's not ask the real questions...
w-fry tech brings out the best in people...progress!
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u/Ill-Tomatillo-6905 1d ago
"Hi. So we how do we launder the money? Lets write we bought a super computer" "So can you prove the people's tax money were spend for a computer?" "Yeah he is the computer, i dont see any issues". Meanwhile Mayor got a new luxury car and went on vocations with his family. ( Disclaimer: This is a fictional story )
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u/iTmkoeln 1d ago
I marvel at the craftsmanship. The Mainboard is even missing a screw by the looks of it😂. The one in the bottom right
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u/Ta_trapporna 1d ago
Never seen that cooler, looks weak but cool.
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u/lighthawk16 1d ago
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000089189/processors.html It's the stock cooler for some 12/13/14th gen i9 CPUs.
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u/Foxiak14 1d ago
All that money, and couldn't even afford an SSD
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u/scriptfoo 1d ago
PC = $1000
Delivery, configuration, relocation, additional installation, re-configuration, service fee, maintenance fee, convenience fee, presentation fee, storage fee, hazard pay, off-hours handling, on-call service window fee, misc charges, security cost, import fee, and other related charges = $174,000
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u/Admirable-Nobody219 1d ago
Power supply doesn't require nuclear codes to blow up, PSU AI does it when you least expect it
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u/lotus_spit 1d ago
Least corrupt politician in the Philippines lmao. Also, from what I've heard there, the stolen money from the flood-control projects is absolutely hot right now.
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u/Striking-Diamond-602 1d ago
Absolutely. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Corruption on Flood control projects amounting to billions of $$$ are just surfacing this week it's disgusting
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u/-PM_ME_YOUR_TACOS- 1d ago
Oh so you guys have the same problems. It confirms it's all the fault of those damn Spaniards.
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u/thelastsupper316 1d ago
Literally the absolute cheapest parts available (maybe not because there's a HDD there and an SSD is $10.)
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u/Host_Informal 1d ago
This pc is so cheaply built, like it uses a fire hazard power supply, very bad case, cheap motherboard, cheap ram, no gpu, no ssd, cheap hard drive. The only redeeming part is cpu which is a bit pricey but still using the included cpu cooler. It would cost at max like $500.
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u/skid3805 18h ago
well of course it would cost that,they got the intel arc reactor to compute and power whole city
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u/HomicidalGerbil 12h ago
To no one's surprise we have the same shit in south africa. Our state owned electricity provider paidabout $18k for a mop, and $4.5k for a pair of kneeguards. Then asked for more funding.
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u/HaroerHaktak 1d ago
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY 5 K?!
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u/Striking-Diamond-602 1d ago
Beats me, I know. Maybe it contains ancient bitcoins in that rusty 500GB HDD
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u/morto00x 1d ago
Probably also assembled and sold by a shop owned by the mayor's cousin. Gotta do corruption right.
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u/Praetorian_1975 1d ago
Dude needed it to run MS office to be able to balance the books …. One for them one for me one for them two for me ….. 😂
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u/Vale-Senpai 1d ago
Of course it costs so much when you include the Porsche that was used for it's transportation
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u/forzafoggia85 1d ago
They should make anyone this corrupt do 3 rounds with Pacquio, send a message
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u/free_username_ 1d ago
It’s the incriminating evidence that can be used for extortion that’s worth 175K
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u/Gk101_speed701 1d ago
IN our country, 7 BILLION DOLLARS (mind you we have a much smaller economy than many countries, so 7 billion dollars is a lot more than you might think it is) DISAPPEARED, out of the 11 BILLION that was given for flood control projects since we get like over a dozen typhoons a year at this point. 60 percent of a massive project, gone. Corruption even affects out country in a small level. Our traffic police, the MMDA, always just ask for bribes when they give you a ticket. Our people earn like 10-15 dollars a DAY with heavy labor jobs. What minimum wage for an hour is in America is a full 8 hour shift in the Philippines. Our country is completely fucked, but at least our president is trying to weed out corruption. Our presidents, police officers, congressmen, senators, every single part of our government has corruption.
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u/JRAP555 23h ago
What is that PSU?
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u/Striking-Diamond-602 19h ago
Generic PSU worth $5. Non-rated, non-branded, just-plain PSU.
Saved them 10 grand
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u/DamnDrip 22h ago
I'm fairly sure most countries will stay poor forever due to corruption. Once the West dies out, the world will forever be corrupt.
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u/Elegant-Raise-9367 17h ago
See my brother is a successful computer engineer, he made $175,000 last year
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u/TritonSaber 9h ago
An i9 with a stock cooler, a single hard drive, no GPU, and this is considered a server, all for $175,000???
I know PC parts can be more expensive here, but goddamn that system is just plain horrible for the price, especially for a system that doesn't even have a GPU. And don't get me started on the i9 with the stock cooler for a server.
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u/Yes_Einstein 1d ago
Kind of a bargain in you recall hope much the US was once paying for toilet seats.
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u/choppedx 1d ago
My school computers back in the early 2000s had more power then this. What the fuck
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u/8inchclock 1d ago
Ah yes because a facebook post by a fake profile seems like a really legit source
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u/UnfortunatelySimple 1d ago
No graphics card, it must be a server.
It all checks out.