Done with tiger direct...

Well, got my stuff in today and i got it all working fine... but one thing that really made me mad is my supposed quality assured processor that they sent me had a single bent pin. Its a simple fix with a lead pencil but the fact that they dont take back processors with bent pins in the first place still made my blood boild as its very easy to snap a pin trying to bend it back. Guess thats the down-fall of oem processoers tho. Its only a 40$ Athlon 64 3800+ but im still going to newegg for my pc parts and only them. Anyone else have anything like this happen from tiger?

On the plus side im really happy with my 8600gt... i get 30-50fps in the ut3 demo with maxed settings and it plays all my games on high. Was the perfect card for my budget and useage.

Quick question also, you guys think id be ok to leave my pc on overnight? Reason i ask is im always worried about somthing going wrong in the first day or so and id hate it if it was somthing i could prevent if i was there. Kinda wanna download games off steam though. Its been on all day and seems fine, my idle cpu temp is 35C-40C and under load it usually is around 45 at most. Should be fine to let it go unattented right? dudy80

Yeah you will be fine.

Tiger Direct has let me down more than once. I try and stay away from them as much as possible.

I did take advantage of their pricing error on the XFX 8800 GTS 512, for $190 before rebate. But I don't think I will buy anything from there again unless it is really in my favor like that was.

Tiger Direct has let me down more than once. I try and stay away from them as much as possible.

I did take advantage of their pricing error on the XFX 8800 GTS 512, for $190 before rebate. But I don't think I will buy anything from there again unless it is really in my favor like that was.

ch5richards

All I used to use was tigerdirect.ca, and i don't have any complaints about their service however i think their inventory and prices have definetly slacked off as of late. NCIX.com and canadacomputers.com in canada are much better choices IMOwhitey_rolls

Yea, shame newegg dont ship to canada. Im gonna try and claim my rebates today... but i hear its a pain to try to get them through tiger...

I really hope that newegg would start shipping WorldWide someday :)