Show Us Your Rig [5]

kbrady1979 said:

You had better luck than me. My most recent build saw TWO SSD's go bad. Ordered a bunch of parts and put them together, first SSD bad......talk to Newegg, send it in and they send me a replacement.....number two is bad as well. Exchanged it for the Samsung I have now and it's been fine since. The last thing you want during a new build is about two weeks of downtime waiting on UPS while your rig sits there in pieces!

I know what you mean, Kelly. When I built my Z68 rig, I had to order 4 boards before I got one that didn't have bent CPU pins out of the box. Asus says that's not possible. Every board is inspected before shipping. I told them there were 2 possibilities. #1. You're lying. #2. You need to hire inspectors who know what a bent CPU socket pin looks like. Fortunately, I didn't buy it from Newegg. I bought it from Amazon. I went online for an RMA and was given an RMA immediately, a link to print out a pre paid shipping label and had 30 days to return it. 2 Hours later I received an email from Amazon that the replacement board had been shipped with free 2 day shipping. It can't get much better than that, as long as you buy from Amazon and not one of their vendors.

Sounds like a great plan to me Cranky. Make sure you take pictures for AddRam's thread

crankypenguin said:

My ram numbers might go up from 7.7 to 7.9, I ordered Mushkin Enhanced 2 x 8 GB DDR-3-1600 CL9 1.5-Volt 240-pin memory today. It will take a while for it to get here since it's coming from the states though I have used Mushkin ram before on a Phenom II x4 build back in 2009 and that ram was lightning fast, not to mention the black color gives it a great look :) And for those wondering why I would bother getting another 16gb set of ram since I already have one 16gb corsair set, well..I have a second motherboard that I want to turn into a server. I have some parts ready for it and I will use the Corsair ram on that build and Mushkin on my current.

Good stuff Cranky, in my experience (on an Intel based system) 1600mhz ram would score 7.8, with a slight overclock I managed a 7.9 with it.

Paul.

I have been fortunate, I have never had to RMA anything. Of course I usually go to Frys, I need instant gratification when making a purchase. I ordered my SSD and was in misery waiting for it to arrive. I remember building my first rig..I was in Germany and went to the computer store (don't recall the name of it) I spoke English and they spoke German. We managed it and I was proud of my first build. I enjoyed Germany, lived in Rodenbach and would cook on the grill on weekends and exchange beers and food with the neighbors. We never spoke as I never learned German and they spoke no English, but got along great. Ein beer bitte!!

Rant over

Dude said:

I have been fortunate, I have never had to RMA anything. Of course I usually go to Frys, I need instant gratification when making a purchase. I ordered my SSD and was in misery waiting for it to arrive. I remember building my first rig..I was in Germany and went to the computer store (don't recall the name of it) I spoke English and they spoke German. We managed it and I was proud of my first build. I enjoyed Germany, lived in Rodenbach and would cook on the grill on weekends and exchange beers and food with the neighbors. We never spoke as I never learned German and they spoke no English, but got along great. Ein beer bitte!!

Rant over

Thats a nice story Doug, 2 nations united in Beer and food! So you never spoke you just got drunk together and got along just fine. I like that!

Good times indeed. Best four and a half years of my life living in Germany. I traveled around and still remember a great drive from Germany through Switzerland to Italy. I was actually born in Germany.

Dallas 7 said:

Quadrider10 said:

just give it 1 more year lol! thats what sucks about computers. you rig is already outdated 3-4 months after you build it......

Don't say that. I don't wanna hear that. LOL

As long as it still does what you want, it is fine.