PC Wars - A New Frustration
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this
Well serves you right for ignoring the long time honored rules of delivery and installs like landline/cable/anything 1 When they say: "we will be there between X and Y" (typically a 4 - 8 hour separation during which you must be there) it always means 5 minutes before Y. 2. but Murphy adds: "Step out at any time, Z, during the interval X to Y, the time changes to Z + 2 minutes." 3. Murphy's wife also likes to add, "even should you stay home during X and Y, and decide to perform any involved task (messy sticky finger lunches in particular), or dare to sit on your porcelain throne for some quiet contemplation, the time will change to then."
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Well serves you right for ignoring the long time honored rules of delivery and installs like landline/cable/anything 1 When they say: "we will be there between X and Y" (typically a 4 - 8 hour separation during which you must be there) it always means 5 minutes before Y. 2. but Murphy adds: "Step out at any time, Z, during the interval X to Y, the time changes to Z + 2 minutes." 3. Murphy's wife also likes to add, "even should you stay home during X and Y, and decide to perform any involved task (messy sticky finger lunches in particular), or dare to sit on your porcelain throne for some quiet contemplation, the time will change to then."
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And Murphy's second cousin's corollary "If it's really needed, the courier will claim he tried to deliver but you weren't in so he gets home early". And that's ignoring the "delivered" items that turn up at a neighbor the following day. I'm still trying to work out how one delivery got to a bedridden 93 year old lady with dementia instead of me.
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this
I had to wait more than a month after ordering a Dell gaming notebook, something went wrong with the IDEAL payment (which is the most popular way of paying online in the Netherlands) on the Dell side. But now I'm really pleased with the notebook, setup went flawless, and I got 100 Euro discount because of a discount action during the waiting period.
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this
Z.C.M. wrote:
I'll give you three cows, two goats and three pigs.
Well, the cows can be herded down the road to my farm, but you'll have to tell the mayor that traffic on the road needs to be closed off and you might need a special license. The goats can be delivered by truck to the pen, and could you take the pigs directly to the butcher?
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And Murphy's second cousin's corollary "If it's really needed, the courier will claim he tried to deliver but you weren't in so he gets home early". And that's ignoring the "delivered" items that turn up at a neighbor the following day. I'm still trying to work out how one delivery got to a bedridden 93 year old lady with dementia instead of me.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I'm still trying to work out how one delivery got to a bedridden 93 year old lady with dementia instead of me.
That's easy. She got out of bed, strolled down to your house, and stole it off the porch! :)
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this
I do ordering a lot online, however if it s something local I ask to place it in one of the shops nearby, as I prefer to pick it up at the end of the day instead of playing mouse-and-cat with the delivery guy... For instance, two weeks ago (one Thursday), wife's laptop dead... Ordered one online the very same night, picked it up Sunday on way home...
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