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| tcottle:
I bought this system for my mame cabinet and I am very happy with its performance. Heatsink clearence is tight due power supply placement. The stock heatsink that came with my boxed AMD 2500+ fits fine. I purchased the CPU and ram from NewEgg.com. If you can wire a control panel you will not have any problem installing the CPU, heatsink and ram Mine does not have switched outlets in the back :( |
| Kremmit:
--- Quote from: 8bit on July 11, 2004, 11:07:12 am ---Rebates are too much of a pain to deal with unless they are an instant savings rebate. --- End quote --- $2.00 rebates are too much of a pain in the ass. $90.00 rebates are another story ;) |
| ErikRuud:
As far as I know, TigerDirect doesn't have anything to do with the rebates. The rebates come from the manufacturers and you have to deal with whatever rebate clearinghouse they are using. I bought a complete system kit from them about six months ago. I am very happy with the system. I will probably put in a seperate sound card as the on-board Via sound chip tends to making popping sounds during a few PC games. The two rebates involved in my purchase were from the manufacturers. One took 10 weeks, the other took 22 weeks. |
| independentthread:
Rebates are from manufacturers, you can buy something from two different stores that actually have the exact same rebate sometimes. Sometimes it's a store that talks the manufacturer into it, but most times it's that a manufacturer wants to move some units so they put together a rebate of some sort, and then the stores have to contact them in order to take part in it. A lot of times it's something to the effect of "if you buy this many, you can offer this certain rebate." Personally I hate rebates, because I've had bad luck with them. I've actually gotten some from manufacturers that didn't have a customer service line for their rebates, and by the time I actually got them, the rebates checks were expired. One was postmarked like 4 months prior to when I got it, so that was obviously a postal problem but it took a total of 7 MONTHS to get it. The other one was just completely off. It was dated for like a month after I bought the item, but didn't show up till 5 months after I bought the item and was only good for 60 days. It took so long that I had forgotten about it. The worst part was that it was postmarked like 3 days before the date I recieved it, so god only knows what was up with that one. |
| pointdablame:
Rebates can come from either the manufacturer or the store, its a very common practice. In fact, check pretty much any of your CompUSA circulars. You will see $50 Mfr Rebate + $50 CompUSA rebate or something similar. I have personally gotten quite a few rebates from the retailer or store that I bought. TigerDirect VERY often does rebates themselves. It is documented on quite a few deal sites on the net. They are also notoriously bad at giving out rebates when compared with other vendors. As I said in my previous post, you are likely to get them no problem, and I hope you do. But for the people who said TigerDirect has nothing to do with rebates, you are incorrect. Just a heads up. |
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