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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:18 pm
by jonnyb
i agree with tigerdirect, they are on the ball...
although one time i did have to send a MB back, but it was really easy to return the item..
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:25 am
by Robert Wollenberg
Me and some friends are big into building our own computers and several of my friends had received obviously used equipment and then got a runaround from tigerdirect about returning. Stuff was scratched out of the box, screws had obviously been cranked down on the mobo, etc. And the customer service sucked. While in Korea I built a lot of comps for people. I had an order of over 1k taking its sweet time showing up from newegg. Usually things got to me in Korea in about a week. It was going on three and I hadn't gotten anything yet. I sent newegg an e-mail and explained what was going on. They had me send them a copy of the order and resent the entire order. No questions asked. I can honestly say that was probably the best customer service I've ever gotten anywhere. And their prices are great. Just my two cents worth.
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:15 pm
by GlassWolf
sounds good.
I actually just got 2.5GB of DDR400 from tigerdirect for $50.
I also went through newegg and upgraded this box with an athlon64 x2 3800+, asus a8n SLI premium board, and a 7800GT PCIe card.
your 450 should be ok, but watch it for a bit to be sure. power supplies aren't something to skimp on. they can destroy things if they go bad or get overdrawn.
I'm using an Enermax 465W supply myself.
similar setup to yours
athlon64 x2 @ 2.4GHz
Asus A8N SLI Prem board
eVGA GF 7800GT PCIe card
1GB (2x512) Corsair XMS TwinX1024 PC3200LL DDR
Adaptec PCI SCSI card
Conexant HSF winmodem
Plextor DVD/RW
LiteOn CDRW
3.5" FDD
some fans, cold cathodes, EL wire...
power with the enermax dual auto-variable fan 465W supply
runs just fine.