Bloody Aria Technology....

[mcquiggd]

Ordered a new processor thursday morning for next day delivery.... next day all I received was a phone call wanting to double check my credit card details (even though they had already debited my account). They gauranteed to send it for saturday delivery to home address instead.

I even rang back twice that day to confirm both the address and that the goods would be delivered 'oh yes' I was assured. Bugger all happened.

Rang yesterday and asked what was happening 'we didnt get round to shipping it - tell you what Ill send it out today without charging you for saturday delivery'. How nice. They took down my work address and assured me it would be delivered there.

Got an email notification that it had been shipped. Checked the couriers web site - oh yes! It was 'on the van'.

Sadly the little card waiting for me when I got home revealed Arias incompetence. Instead of the 2 hour round trip to pick it up, I just rang up the courier and said 'send it back'.

Ordered it from Dabs. Fingers crossed

[DimPrawn]

Top tip

www.ebuyer.com

Cheap and delivered next day. I buy loads from them, never had a problem.

PS. Isn't DABS now owned by BT and hence crap?

[mcquiggd]

Have used eBuyer before - but they are out of stock...

I can really only use companies that deliver to a work address - all the delivery depots are the other side of the city so picking up goods is a real pain - two hour round trip or £30 in a taxi. Makes buying online a bit pointless, as it works out the same price as PC world

[mcquiggd]

Actually Ive just decided on a work around - Im going to change the adress of one of my credit cards to be my work address.

[AtW]

Dabs is cheap (at least for hard drives) and reliable.

[mcquiggd]

Yep, and they take orders for next day delivery even after 7pm, which is nice...

Has anyone used http://www.lowestonweb.com ? The prices are a lot lower than say Dabs, eBuyer, and they offer evening delivery (after 5pm, which is when I get home ) for the same as most delivery charges... curious...

I was looking for an Athlon socket AM2, X2 4400+, and they are about £279 inc vat - cheaper than most onliners who want £315 - £350 inc vat...

Interesting ..

P.S Whe I was on a week in between jobs ordered some stuff from www.savastore.co.uk (only deliver to home address) and all was fine... reasonable prices too.

[AtW]

Why you getting AM2? It requires new mobo, new memory - all of which are more expensive than established boards. I've got 5 servers on non-AM2 socket and they are awesome, AM2 gives no serious benefits.

[mcquiggd]

I already have the AM2 motherboard, memory, 2 SLI graphics cards.... and a gigabit network, ADSL2+ etc ....

I demoted the P4 to an app server to run Team Foundation Server... needed a new workstation so went AMD this time.... currently using an overclocked Sempron 64 bit a friend lent me.. needed to get my own chip and the x2 4400+ has the 1Meg cache per core, basically the most cost effective of the range. I use watercooling and overclock the main 'beast', so get very good performance from the mid-range processors.

[AtW]

In which case I suppose it makes sense, dual cores are really sweet, can't believe I did not consider getting them until late last year

But you certainly wasted money on getting version with 1 MB cache - performance benefits are next to nothing unless you have got very very specialised code that fits much better into 1 MB of cache rather than 512kb.

[DimPrawn]

I bought one of those pentium D 805 jobbies for £79 inc VAT (Dual core 1Mb cache per core) and it overclocks to 3.4 GHZ on my £40 motherboard and puts out benchmarks to match my £200+ AMD X2 3800+ dual core chip.

Not bad for the money.