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  Madaz said:
hardly 3 months Joel try 5-6 weeks absolute max

but yes MSY = cheapest in aus for parts but dont go in there expecting sales service you need to know what you want first

I called them and the knobby told me they had been open for ~3months as it wasn't until last week I realised they are now in SA :D

I always know what I want. It actually pisses me off when they try and recommend something else. I had hindley street computers try that on me.

Well, just had my trusty old Antec Neo480W PSU blow on me! :( Lasted me 3-4 years and hasn't skipped a beat until now, ran 24/7 so it had a good innings. Got a el-cheapo 400w from the closet powering my system at the moment but just ordered this baby, can't wait till it comes in

Edited by heslo
  Cubes said:
I called them and the knobby told me they had been open for ~3months as it wasn't until last week I realised they are now in SA :(

I always know what I want. It actually pisses me off when they try and recommend something else. I had hindley street computers try that on me.

would that be adrenalin computers or somethings cause thats where fishpaste works

/EDIT

Helso's Link Corsair PSU

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  Cubes said:
Nope Hindley street computers is hindley street computers. :(

Hindley st computer = no longer in business (didn't pay taxes, and government took all their monies) =(

but good for us, less competition on the street =)

also now that the guy that owned 'computers r us' closed down and opened MSY were the only company on hindley street =)

  heslo said:
Well, just had my trusty old Antec Neo480W PSU blow on me! :woot: Lasted me 3-4 years and hasn't skipped a beat until now, ran 24/7 so it had a good innings. Got a el-cheapo 400w from the closet powering my system at the moment but just ordered this baby, can't wait till it comes in

Quite common. Antec's are a GREAT PSU apart from their poor quality caps.

I'd be very interested to see what caps you have in the Neo480w as 3-4years at 24x7 is a damn good run.

Recap it and it will live to see another day. :(

  Fishpaste~ said:
Hindley st computer = no longer in business (didn't pay taxes, and government took all their monies) =(

but good for us, less competition on the street =)

also now that the guy that owned 'computers r us' closed down and opened MSY were the only company on hindley street =)

LMAO. I wasn't impressed when I walked in their door. :(

  Madaz said:
but dont go in there expecting sales service you need to know what you want first

Im with Cubes. I always know what i want before going to a shop anyway.

I went with a mate to IT Warehouse @ ttp to buy him a few parts for a system id researched for him for a few weeks to find out what his budget and needs were.

Id bought a few parts there myself from the manager a week before and he gave me a great deal, so i thought id do them a favour expecting the same service i received, so took him there. Sales lady instead we spoke to basically didnt listen to a word i was saying...conversation went along the lines of

Me - "I need a few prices on some parts"

Sales - "Ok, what do u need?"

"ok, firstly a motherboard, and i want the..." Lady walk off to the shelf grabbing a few gigabit boxes...

"Ok, here we have this.."

"No, im after a specific model, this one" I give her the Asus model, and part number

"why would u want that model, this one is much better and only a bit more expensive"

"because its all we need" - the mobo we needed didnt have firewire, and a few other options my mate didnt need.

Saleslady - "but thats like buying a Ford. One has a turbo and aircon, the other is about the same price, but doesnt have the options"

Me - "What has that got to do with us asking for a price on a specific mobo??"

Saleslady at this point seems confused, and says "ok, what do u want then?"

I say Asus, model XXX

She walks back to the shelf, saying "I personally wouldnt touch Asus with a 20Ft pole." so we could hear it...

Now me and my mate start getting pissed off. This being the 2nd shop now that has refused just to give a quote on parts we want.

We now ask for a price on an intel d820 dual core. She proceeds to input the highest model chip. I ask her what price, she says over $400...I ask no, we want the 820. Finally she puts in what chip he wants.

Now finally i cracked. She made some other smart arse comment here, and i say "How hard is it to come into a pc store, and get a f**king price on parts we want without u trying to sell us what U want in a pc?"

She gets pissed off too, and then says nothing asking what else we require. I then say ram. She gets a smartarse look on her face now, and asks "is that ddr1, or ddr2?" epxecting me to say wtf...I simply reply ddr2 owing to the fact the mobo we chose only takes ddr2 and gave her a pissed off look...

Now after all this was done, i ask if the manager was in i spoke to less than a week before, and she says no. I say ok i'll come back and speak to him when hes in, so she prints off the "quote" we asked for. Now when i was in and asked the same thing for myself the week before the manager, gave a discount for a bulk sale. This lady said she would do the same.

Quote comes out and yes its RRP on everything + inflated prices. We leave.

Come back the next few days and as we enter the store we see the stupid sales lady lean to the manager and say a comment to him nodding in our direction. We then walk out and spend the money elsewhere...

Moral of the story is - Deal only with stores who expect u to know what u want, and one who doesnt try sell me shit i dont want or need. And only deal with managers. And never go to IT warehouse @ ttp.

lol was that manager Steve if so he was a top bloke i got great discounts from him and i he even let me keep a 7800GTX for a week or so after i told him i didnt want it and he couldnt get my 1900xtx

he gave a full cash refund on the GTX i had it in my pc and dads pc benching it but wasnt that impressed

yeah, the guy with the supra there loves the classic adelaide and he is a top bloke if thats the one you are talkin about madaz...

should of spoken to him and then told him about how stupid and rude the salesperson was. I wouldn't have left till she was suspended, told to go home or fired.

Yer big fella is the manager. He is a top guy, gave me a great discount the week before hand when i spend a few hundred in there. Thats why i took my mate back in there.

Unfortunatly when we went back and the sales lady nodded in our direction, she obviously "set the scene" of us being there previous and he wasnt that helpful as he was less than a week ago.

I emailed the IT warehouse people of how rude she was, and sent a detailed description, but nothing happened, and shes still there. Its probably up to the manager of who he has employed there, and shes a complete knobber.

Funny thing was ive seen her do it to a customer a month or so before hand when i was there buying an ethernet cable. Grey haired pensioner comes in and asks for a cd burner, and she just kept telling him he can buy a dvd burner for the same price, but he needs at least a 1000Mhz processor to run it....seriously wtf??

The old guy just wanted a cd burner, but she kept pushing her point till the old guy walked out looking confused and pissed off...

Edited by Bl4cK32

lol

sheeeeesh, they make it too hard sometimes.....

got a price from IT on a motherboard I was after, bejeeebus. $380. Ended up finding the same board (Sli with both pcie's set at 16x, to suit a lga775 with 533mhz ram) for $150usd off ebay. Also found a 2nd MSI7800GTX for a cple hundred, so SLi here I come !!

:sorcerer:

lol..Cubes is kidding...:thumbsup:

It was a while ago now, so can t remember the exact model. From memory the board he ended up getting was P5ND2 from scorptec.

I bought my mobo, ram, lcd, and keyboard from Scorptec and in the end thats who my mate did too. They were cheaper than local even with postage....

Paully, just go in and ask for pricing on lower model asus mobo and see if she has an answer for ya... :thumbsup:

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