From: "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Allow me to tell you this - this "3 years warranty" note is a damn lie, and > I'm being polite here. > > Why? I'll give you an example: > > Here, on my desk I have an Asus A7V board with Athlon 800Mhz chip. Lets say > that the chip will burn as soon as I'll mount it on the board and turn on the > machine. IF the shop that I bought from it will have a spare part - then I'll > get a replace chip without any charge, but this is the PC business - where a > chip shelf life is nothing more then 3-5 months at best - and thats including > boards, processors, ram, hard drives - you know... > > Now - if he doesn't have, then I have to purchase a new processor (and they'll > "deduct" the price of an old processor - so my guess they'll deduct $50 - a > price of K7-800Mhz) and on top of that - I'll have to buy a new board (why? > remember Intel's lie "we need another way to stick a processor, a socket > won't help when running at 1+ Ghz" which was actually just trying to shake > AMD out?), and if the board vendor decided that SDRAM is not good enough and > I have to use RDRAM then I'll have to buy RAM too. What if you had an AGP X2 > slot and you got now AGPX8 slot in your new board? ahh, buy a graphics card > please... > > So a warrenty is helpful for few months only for free fixing. After a year or > two - you'll need to pay through your nose. > > Fortunately you can get adapters "whetever the workstation have" -> VGA > and use a regular screen since a 5+ year old CRT is very hard on the eyes.
That wasn't my experience. I had a 800mhz AMD cpu that burned after few months and I got a newer CPU instead (not big different, 900mhz, but thats not the point) for no charge. In another case, we had dual CPU intel server with only one 600mhz cpu plugged. After a year we decided to add another cpu, but we couldn't get our hands on another 600mhz CPU. The company replaced the 600mhz cpu for 800mhz for little or no charge, I can't remember. So my guess is that it really depends who you buy from. Sagi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
