TankGuys,
Thanks for the quick response. I just mailed my cousin and asked him to place an order for an X2 4400+ at your store. Since, as I have gathered from your previous posts, it is not your policy to charge credit cards before you are sure that you can ship out the requested product, I guess my cousin can cancel the order if it doesn't reach him by the end of July (...I'll buy a single core CPU right here in India if that happens).
Warranty shouldn't be a great problem. I don't intend to overclock my CPU unless the games and applications I use demand more power than what the CPU has to offer to function decently. And if I do overclock, I'll loose the warranty anyway. Hopefully, nothing will go wrong with either the processor or anything else I may decide to get from the US. But I really have no choice. The problem with buying computer hardware in India goes way beyond the mere problem of warranty. In India, the X2 4400+ will take no less than 6 months to arrive, I'm guessing. And even when it does, it will probably cost twice as much as it costs in the US. I bought an ASUS 6800 Ultra (model v9999 Ultra Deluxe) in India in December last year. And I paid the equivalent of 1.1k USD for it (when at that time in the US, it didn't cost any more than 600 USD at most)... and I bought it straight from the authorised ASUS distributor!
I recently emailed Dell India to send me a price quotation for a 2005FPW monitor, and they replied that there weren't selling widescreen TFTs in India and that the next best thing available was a 19" flat panel display unit and it was quoted at 45,000 Rupees (around $1,000) when the same monitor costs around $500 in the US!
Low end hardware is no problem here. But high end hardware costs more than I can afford to buy. So, you see... I don't have much of a choice here.
My thanks to you again for the quick and useful response.
Thanks for the quick response. I just mailed my cousin and asked him to place an order for an X2 4400+ at your store. Since, as I have gathered from your previous posts, it is not your policy to charge credit cards before you are sure that you can ship out the requested product, I guess my cousin can cancel the order if it doesn't reach him by the end of July (...I'll buy a single core CPU right here in India if that happens).
Warranty shouldn't be a great problem. I don't intend to overclock my CPU unless the games and applications I use demand more power than what the CPU has to offer to function decently. And if I do overclock, I'll loose the warranty anyway. Hopefully, nothing will go wrong with either the processor or anything else I may decide to get from the US. But I really have no choice. The problem with buying computer hardware in India goes way beyond the mere problem of warranty. In India, the X2 4400+ will take no less than 6 months to arrive, I'm guessing. And even when it does, it will probably cost twice as much as it costs in the US. I bought an ASUS 6800 Ultra (model v9999 Ultra Deluxe) in India in December last year. And I paid the equivalent of 1.1k USD for it (when at that time in the US, it didn't cost any more than 600 USD at most)... and I bought it straight from the authorised ASUS distributor!
I recently emailed Dell India to send me a price quotation for a 2005FPW monitor, and they replied that there weren't selling widescreen TFTs in India and that the next best thing available was a 19" flat panel display unit and it was quoted at 45,000 Rupees (around $1,000) when the same monitor costs around $500 in the US!
Low end hardware is no problem here. But high end hardware costs more than I can afford to buy. So, you see... I don't have much of a choice here.
My thanks to you again for the quick and useful response.