intrex++ I've had the same good experience with these folks and I hope they keep up that level of service.
David M. --- Magnus Hedemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I was in town I headed over to the TigerDirect.com outlet on Capitol > Blvd. They had a vast array of motherboards made by companies I had never > heard of before. But $80 for a combination of motherboard and 1.8GHz > Duron CPU seemed like a worthwhile deal so I went for it. > > The motherboard is a Chaintech 7KJD. It says on the box it will run any > Socket A processor. > > So I get the thing "home", open the box and start to marry the CPU to the > moboard. The cheap moboard doesn't support any processor so new as the > 1.8GHz Duron, which I figured was sort of a bottom end processor. It > requires a 13.5 multiplier with 133MHz core clock speed. The motherboard > only goes to 12.5 multiplier. Needless to say, it's going back. > > I already broke the seal on the processor so it's mine. I hope whatever > moboard I exchange for is more compatible with the Duron processor. > > You know, I would have spent more money for such a combo at Intrex, but I > *never* had a problem with them selling motherboards that were much older > than their CPU's. The staff there would actually put the motherboard, > CPU, RAM and cooling fan together for you gratis before leaving the store, > and it always just worked when plopping it into the case. The guys at > TigerDirect.com store didn't want to help me, and seemed annoyed that I > wanted to buy a processor that was in a tub 10-12 feet off the ground > instead of their display case. Then they were doubly annoyed when I held > up the register to point out that they overcharged me for the processor > (by $5). > > Will see how accomidating they are with my return tomorrow. > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
