aye except newegg also has the largest selection of any online retailer out there. generally speaking, i always do my shopping at newegg first, then if i can find a store selling what i want elsewhere for significantly enough cheaper (to offset the cost of tax vs extra shipping usually, since i live in california), i buy from wherever i find it at. 99% of the time though, with shipping so cheap to california, and all my orders placed arriving within 2-3 business days, i eat the slightly higher cost on some items to get the quality of service i expect from newegg on anything that isnt priced significantly above a local store. i still buy my CPUs and motherboards local though. both of my GA-EP45-UD3P boards i purchased from my department at Fry's, as well as my Q9650, because every time i make a purchase over a certain amount i either get a free drink or lunch (depending on the purchase) from the guy i get it from, since he gets a commission and i work there with him, not to mention the no questions asked return policy so long as the product isnt visibly damaged. excessively heavy items i also generally try to purchase in store if i can, though that isnt always possible (i got my HAF 932 in store but i got my 27.5" monitor on newegg @ record low pricing for the time on both, yay sales). i plan on selling my e5200 based rig down to keeping the HDD and some of the memory as spare for testing, as well as most of the (excessive amount) of fans i crammed into the thing, and getting a 920 D0 from microcenter before they go out of production in favor of the 860s, since i plan to build a heavy load crossfire setup when HD5870x2 cards become available, and depending on the pricing @ microcenter i will probably buy some other well priced items as well, while helping them make up for it in other items, like a SATA OEM DVD drive which they have at a fair markup, but nothing i wouldnt pay, and a case of bawls rootbeer, since it costs a LOT less than shipping them from frozenCPU whenever i order from there LOL. all in all, they probably will break even at most, but thus far i have generated enough foot traffic via my friends by telling them about the great deals i get there that they have more than made a profit as is, and a single CPU sale @ an $85 loss (assuming MS gets them from the same regional distributor as frys) wont hurt them in the long run. I get the assurance that if the part is bad, im 15 minutes drive away to get a replacement for my time going there, and i can still pick and choose where i buy the rest of my system, most likely relying on neweggs excellent selection of video cards and RAM like i always do, and watching Fry's sales deals on the components we do sell at or under market value like a hawk. i got 2 Spinpoint F1 1TB drives for less than newegg by doing this, which are now doing duty as secondary high speed storage in RAID0 for whatever i cant fit on my 150GB Vraptor, to my satisfaction.