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BAPC Sales Canada

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Canadian sale subreddit for your PC needs. Deals on monitors, cables, processors, video cards, fans, cooling, cases, accessories, anything for a PC build. News and current events related to PC building in Canada. Inspired by /r/bapcsalescanada

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Any websites directing to PC hardware available in Canada, please provide essential information, sale price and savings details (rebates, coupons, bundles, etc.).

Posting good deals with no significant reductions or savings of some sort is fine.

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Titles Titles should be formatted as follows:

[type] description (price) [store]

Price Breakdown Round up ($29.99) to the nearest dollar ($30).

($30 - $10 = $20) ($30 - $5 MIR = $25) ($100 - 30% off = $70) Examples [GPU] Sapphire Radeon R9 280 DUAL-X OC ($280 - $50 = $230) [Canada Computers] [Monitor] Alienware AW2518HF, 25" 1080p, 240 Hz, Freesync, TN ($450 - 10% = $405) [Dell]

Tips Retailer Reviews Threads Common websites for deals in Canada

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Price Matching

Price matching your products can save you a lot of money. Several websites (Memory Express, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples etc...) give such service.

Learn more here:

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The date given for a Mail In Rebate is the date the item must be purchased by. It must be postmarked (basically stamped / mailed by Canada Post) within ~30 days[1] from the purchase date.

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I’d appreciate some assistance in finding a budget gaming laptop from a reliable source. I can pop into BestBuy (who enjoys that anyway!) or Canada Computers but are there alternatives? I’m look for something to play older games, like strategy games as wargames, but I’m not bothered about the latest games. I also want to do some development, likely using Eclipse+Java and also use docker-compose in VirtualBox. Maybe I’ll also mess around with Unity3 or the Unreal engine.

A reasonable spec is: 16 or 32Gb 512Gb+ SSD Decent discrete GFX card but not the latest Current or previous gen AMD or Intel 2+ USB 3 ports FHD monitor Nothing too heavy though I won’t be travelling Budget is probably $1100+tax

Is that reasonable? Thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh, that reminds me of how much crap companies pre-install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's an issue. Tbf, it was running fine with all the stuff installed, I wanted my 3gb back though.