And we all love you for it. :-) Though I did find it very confusing the first time I came in and didn't see any prices posted. But I don't think I have ever heard someone say "that computerbase, it just really sucks" or "the guys in there don't know anything and are really rude". Something that really can't be said about VOS or PCParts... It's a business model... While I am not sure about your AMD policy, having seen some of the crazy sh*t people have done with AMD chips (putting the heatsink on backward and having the die get so hot half of it lifted off the ceramic), I can understand why you wouldn't feel comfortable selling parts to a beginner to build themselves. Sell them an Intel that will never overheat and blow itself out, even without a heatsink. AMDs are better now, but I still don't think I'd trust turning one on without a heatsink mounted... Though I have done it without a fan plugged in. :-P
I just wish there was someplace in town that sold the rare stuff... SCA-68 pin scsi adapters (that are Ultra160 compatable), etc... Norvac carries some of that stuff, but they don't have the those converters. Trips to Fry's only come when I'm on the way to Portland, and Fry's may have everything, but they're usually not the cheapest. And as for dual Tyan boards... I just had a dual Slot 1 tyan board go belly up... And Tyan was very unhelpful in the matter... So I can't say I'd personally suggest them. Anyone have one they want to part with (that has AGP? ;-) -Ryan Stasel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr O > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 7:25 PM > To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list > Subject: RE: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner > > > It goes a little like this. As a shop we limit ourselves to a > certain number of vendors otherwise they all call begging for > more business. So if our few vendors don't have an older part > such as P3 boards (though we can often still get Tyan dual CPU > boards) then we encourage the buyer to check online. We often > do our best to match prices online. > We do have a storefront to maintain and I have to pay my > bills. Our prices are often quoted as the retail price. > We don't choose to carry cheap components and find that if > something has a higher than acceptable return rate (in our > case that often equates to "if more than two of said item > fails within 4 to 6 weeks use we quit carrying said product". > Lots of cheap hardware works fine under linux. Try Windows XP > on a lot of that cheap crap and see how well your machine > runs with the average user ;). > Also why we limit ourselve on the amount of AMD we deal with. > Far too many problems in the long run. A machine here or > there for the knowledgeable is generally harmless but we > don't push AMD into the hands of a beginner. VOS has the > advantage of higher foot traffic, PCParts just carries *ahem* > affordable stuff and you've seen that storefront. Lastly, I > know alot of what works well with linux. So.. to that avail I > welcome your comments, suggestions, or complaints. > > The geek with too many toys, > Mr O. > a.k.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- baggab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been using PC Parts express. No sign of recognition on the > > mention of Linux, but price competitive. > > > > I would like to give Mr O and Computer Base a try. I am > still looking > > for that PIII socket 370. I've cruzing Ebay, but maybe we could > > make a deal. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > _______________________________________________ > EuG-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
