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Beast Machines
Been a bit preoccupied these past few days, what with my cold... its just a cold... no, you can't catch SARS over the Internet. Hey, come back!
My new PC arrived, hand delivered by those wonderful people at Citylink... who had decided to beat seven shades of shit out of it before I signed for it. The processor heatsink and fan unit was rattling around inside the full tower, bouncing off the rather expensive Radeon 9700 graphics card.
End result? One of the components on the card has been wasted and the machine will reboot without warning whenever it feels like it. Fortunately the people at Scan have gone far beyond helpful and are sending out a replacement and an on-site engineer to make sure everything works just fine.
Products: Top notch (when this baby works it cranks out the most incredible photorealistic graphics in realtime)
Post-sales service: Also top notch, the sales rep at Scan has done everything possible to make sure I know what's going on and how they intend to fix the problem, despite the damage being outwith their control
Delivery: Utter shite. The tower must have been thrown around like a football for the CPU fan to break off like that. But again, this isn't Scan's fault, it's Citylink's.
If you need a new PC, I'd highly recommend them. Some of the components they sold me two years ago are still in such good condition that they'll be transplanted into this new machine...
Oh alright, I'll admit it, the people who stopped reading and ran away when I mentioned SARS were the smart ones. But where else can one geek out about such things when you're trapped indoors with a contagious virus...
Apr.17.2003