That sounds more like bad luck with motherboards instead of a vendor
problem. It could have been a design flaw
or a bad run of boards. It's not unusual with disks, but not
unheard of with other components.
I've done well with PCFE, and have dozens of rackmount servers from
them. Service is _much_ different if you
approach the place as a business, and establish a relationship,
instead of walking in off the street. Sure, I've had
problems, but that's true of any vendor, really, and they try hard to
fix problems when they come up.
Note that PCFE is closing their cambridge store. Apparently there
are developers who want that space, and the walk-in
business has become an incredibly small amount of their business as
they've focused on corporate clients. There is
probably more info on their webpage.
steve
On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Nick Giannotti wrote:
Chalk me up as another one who has had bad luck with PCFE: I bought
a dozen machines from them (I needed Socket 478 boards with an ISA
Bus on them) and I've had more than 25% of the up and die, due to
the motherboards conking out.
I will say that their customer service is good, but their product
is, from my experience, unreliable.
On 4/25/06, Eric J. Hansen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, my experience has been the same with PCFE - build
delays, wrong parts installed, etc. They're OK in a pinch, or when
you need a quick extra stick of DIMM, but I've learned I can't rely
on them for major/planned purchases.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Doug Hirsch
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:35 PM
To: Andrew D. Fant
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] local vendors for Intel servers?
Andy,
I've had mixed luck with PCs For Everyone. Their configurator is
good, but on my last purchase from them, they did not deliver what
the configurator configured: wrong main board, wrong I/O cards. It
took several rounds before I noticed all their errors and got them
fixed. Inspect carefully what you receive from PCs For Everyone.
Doug
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