Posted by Little Miss Cant Be Wrong at 12:39am Nov 23 '06You must sign in to send Little Miss Cant Be Wrong a message
Don't order from these guys unless you genuinely could build a computer for yourself. Fortunately, I could, so I wasn't hosed by their incompetence. I just bought from them because I'm lazy and, counting shipping, it was honestly cheaper than I could have built the same machine from parts.
So, I get the machine... I open it up, and one of my DVD burners is mounted crooked. I checked things out, and the entire mounting bracket is crooked. So, I'd have to take apart everything to fix it. So, for now I just have a crooked DVD burner. (When/if it dies, I'll try to fix the bracket while I'm in there messing around.) Also, one end of my round IDE cable was broken, which is going to make it nigh-impossible to remove... I'll probably need pliers for that bad boy. I look around to see if anything is disconnected or out of place, and then close up the case.
Still, my stomach is already sinking, and I know things aren't going to be good when I plug it in. But, I plug it in, and it powers up... POSTs fine. Loading up the OS, says Windows is not installed properly. Awesome! So, I have to reinstall my OS and all my drivers, first thing out of the box. Looks like I'm not saving any time vs. building it myself... Also, one of my drives wasn't even partitioned. Lovely. So, I fix all that, I load everything up, and... it seems to work fine. I'm working on overclocking my Core 2 Duo E6600 right now.
Moral of the story, this could easily have been a 2-month or more headache of phone calls and legal threats. You probably shouldn't buy from Cyberpower. If you don't know your was around CMOS, you're going to be in trouble, and even if you do, reading online reviews has shown me that I'm actually lucky in how well put-together my computer was when I got it.
If anyone's curious, here are my new specs:
Motherboard: EVGA 680i
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (currently at 2.43 GHz and stepping steadily upward...)
RAM: 2 GB Corsair XMS (at 810 MHz and climbing)
Primary HDD: 74 GB Raptor
Secondary HDD: 250 GB of whatever was cheap
Graphics: EVGA 8800GTX (aw yeah! Not OCing that until I've seen the temps alongside my OCed CPU... and maybe not even then, it probably runs hot enough already)
Sound: Audigy 4 (old tech, I know... but honestly my hearing is not great: I don't mind MP3s at 128 vs. 192, so I don't need to drop 3 bills on a new sound card)
So, I get the machine... I open it up, and one of my DVD burners is mounted crooked. I checked things out, and the entire mounting bracket is crooked. So, I'd have to take apart everything to fix it. So, for now I just have a crooked DVD burner. (When/if it dies, I'll try to fix the bracket while I'm in there messing around.) Also, one end of my round IDE cable was broken, which is going to make it nigh-impossible to remove... I'll probably need pliers for that bad boy. I look around to see if anything is disconnected or out of place, and then close up the case.
Still, my stomach is already sinking, and I know things aren't going to be good when I plug it in. But, I plug it in, and it powers up... POSTs fine. Loading up the OS, says Windows is not installed properly. Awesome! So, I have to reinstall my OS and all my drivers, first thing out of the box. Looks like I'm not saving any time vs. building it myself... Also, one of my drives wasn't even partitioned. Lovely. So, I fix all that, I load everything up, and... it seems to work fine. I'm working on overclocking my Core 2 Duo E6600 right now.
Moral of the story, this could easily have been a 2-month or more headache of phone calls and legal threats. You probably shouldn't buy from Cyberpower. If you don't know your was around CMOS, you're going to be in trouble, and even if you do, reading online reviews has shown me that I'm actually lucky in how well put-together my computer was when I got it.
If anyone's curious, here are my new specs:
Motherboard: EVGA 680i
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (currently at 2.43 GHz and stepping steadily upward...)
RAM: 2 GB Corsair XMS (at 810 MHz and climbing)
Primary HDD: 74 GB Raptor
Secondary HDD: 250 GB of whatever was cheap
Graphics: EVGA 8800GTX (aw yeah! Not OCing that until I've seen the temps alongside my OCed CPU... and maybe not even then, it probably runs hot enough already)
Sound: Audigy 4 (old tech, I know... but honestly my hearing is not great: I don't mind MP3s at 128 vs. 192, so I don't need to drop 3 bills on a new sound card)