A lot (most) of those places won't ship to canada. Shipping electronics to canada sucks balls. Sent via BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Sam Franc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:30:35 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] My PC Build for January This does not look like s good deal to me. I just built a GIGABYTE box much cheaper. I have had bad experience with Tiger, too. Check out Geeks.com, Newegg.com or Mwave.com even. I use Mwave pretested bundles usually. Sam GPL wrote: > Hi folks, and happy new year. Working with a friend to help build a > decent gaming PC. His PC is about 5 years old and he wonders why all > games he tries to run on that system run horrible. > > I have been assembling a list of parts on my side to present him for > the build but last night he emailed me a link to a barebones kit with > the case I showed him earlier that had a decent price to it. Here is > the link: > > http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3442434#CPU%20Disclaimer > > I'm going to price more items individually, but at first glance this > doesn't look like too terrible a deal. I have stayed away from cases > and kits that come with power supplies in the past because they were > usually lower quality power supplies. This one comes with a 600watt > Ultra X-Finity SLI Ready Power Supply. We are going with an 88 series > nvidia, not super high end, but mid range and would have the option to > SLI it in the future. But its not a deciding factor. > > I would really appreciate your opinion on if barebones kits are > something you folks stay away from or in your experience has it been > better to get individual parts? > > Always appreciate everyones feedback. > > Thanks, I'll keep researching on my side. > > > >