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Originally posted by: DeadMilkman
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Be VERY careful OP mixed in a 940s in his post
ExcaliberPC = 171$ (939 socket)
Monarch = 173$ (940 socket)
MWave = 179$ (939 socket)
Tankguys = OOS
Originally posted by: furballi
Just had a bad experience from Monarch. Ordered an OEM Abit AX8. The unit came in a white box. There's another beat-up Abit box inside this white box. The board is wrapped with a used anti-static bag with Scotch tape instead of the Abit-logo anti-static bag. The board is populated with Nichicon AND United Chemicon capacitors. My other three AX8 builds were ALL Nichicon capacitors.
One of the United Chemicon capacitor had melted plastic sleeve. I checked the back side and saw that this cap had been re-soldered. Also observed at least 8 other re-soldered joints (flux still there). This is DEFINITELY a refurbished board.
I asked for a NEW replacement and they said that this board is NO LONGER in production. My only option is to get my $ back. I suspect this is BS cause I still see the AX8 at NewEgg.
Unless the manager at Monarch replace this board, or give me an equivalent Abit board at no additional cost, this outfit will lose me as a customer. There is NO excuse for sending that crap to a customer by labeling it OEM.
Will post more about Monarch's response in a few days.
Originally posted by: gwynethgh
Got lucky at ExcaliberPC. Someone messed up on payment and their 146 is coming to moi!. Super and thanx whom ever.
Originally posted by: kamranziadar
Originally posted by: gwynethgh
Got lucky at ExcaliberPC. Someone messed up on payment and their 146 is coming to moi!. Super and thanx whom ever.
What do you mean by moi!
Originally posted by: casey
I just ordered one from Ex caliber for $171. They have listed that they have 5 in stock and I hope they aren't blowing smoke. I must admit I was impressed with TankGuys as I ordered from them yesterday and they sent me an E-Mail that they weren't in stock and that they would notify me when it came in. I really didn't want to sit around and wait not knowing when it would come. T replied that since they had none in stock I would rather cancel. I thought I would have a hard time but by the time I logged on to their web site they had cancelled my order. Now if they took it from my credit card or never billed my credit card I will really be impressed. I will do business in the future with them,
Originally posted by: gwynethgh
Got lucky at ExcaliberPC. Someone messed up on payment and their 146 is coming to moi!. Super and thanx whom ever.
Originally posted by: casey
Type / Form Factor AMD Opteron
Clock Speed 2.0 GHz
Processor Core: , Stepping E4
Tech Process: 0.09 micron SOI
Cache: L1/64K+64K; L2/1MB
FSB: HyperTransport Technology Speed, 1000 MHz
I'm not really into the stepping and stuff, so I don't know if this is good or not.
Originally posted by: Greenman
Originally posted by: gwynethgh
Got lucky at ExcaliberPC. Someone messed up on payment and their 146 is coming to moi!. Super and thanx whom ever.
Don't you think it would be proper to notify Excaliber that a mistake has been made? I'm going to guess that if you were on the other end you'd scream bloody murder.