Quote Originally Posted by clesven
That's why you voltage test the hardware and especially the PSU. All the problems you had could have been figured out by a bit of forum lurking before hand, and proper research. I research every piece of hardware I get, and usually find somebody with the combo within my research and see how well it works. Watercooling is easy to setup if you research it for about half an hour? If things work out correctly, I will have a waterchilled PC for a 5 box. All the PSU's they offer are garbage TBH, that's one of the early signs that the company isn't good.

As I said, I wouldn't order from those sites, ever. I can build a dual operton of the best 2xxx line with dual vaporcooling and slid video cards for the price of an alienware ALX. The only real reason I see people buying from those sites is their monthly payment plans and bragging factor. (I see people with mediocre jobs with multiple 6k+ dollar Voodoo pc's, and ofcourse paying monthly on it).
I don’t have a VU meter. I didn’t have another mother board, Power Supply or CPU “in stock” to trouble shoot per “proper research”. Symptoms at hand it could be one of three things. CPU’s rarely go bad, Two out of three were sent. Unfortunately it was the latter.

Per research continued I researched many companies before making this purchase. My findings led to me this site. I don’t count on-site reviews, they can be doctored and bad ones excluded. Like hardware combo research there is still no guarantee.

I was unable to locate an exact hardware config as my machine. This is why I decided to go with a company that has all ready worked out these kinks out. I did find some close, that doesn’t ensure 100% roll out that’s its going to work. Rather then risk let’s dance around a month with a thumb up my ass waiting for documentation to become available like the previous experience; I spent the extra $30 for personal insurance. (What good it did!)

There are quite a few different cooling setups. I was more concerned with the "what ifs" felt for peace of mind the entire process could be avoided for the extra $30 personal insurance. Also have those catch-22 situations "oh you installed it wrong that’s why it went defective; we are not going to cover that". You may have very well done it perfectly fine, but there are sadly too many companies out there like that, and not just computers. My friend once bought a $3000 transmission and installed to find it was locked up inside. Had the car towed and they claimed the Detent was installed incorrectly and it was installed exact. He lost his $3000. Truth was they didn’t want to address it.

I bought this machine cash. Well visa check card out of my bank account.

Despite all efforts these unfortunate events happened. Rather then see someone else get hosed by this experience I tried to save people the grief. At which point this is where you come in!

After having a bad enough experience with the whole thing, warning others about it. We have you chime in and mock the guy who dealing with all this. I mean who do you think you are? What kind of a person does that? Perhaps you’ll find it in your heart to bless us with more sarcastic smug all knowing text of knowledge that really just gets down to it and fixes everything!

So thanks, and fuck you.