New Computer

[Luke]

What do you want it for? If it's gaming, what type of games

[peteyt]

If your going to buy a computer from a shop/store buy it from a large one.

From where I'm from is a local Cyber Cafe, didn't really know it was around. But I knew a friend and a cousin who had used it before a few times and they built computers to. I really liked the sound of it. I know often computers bought in large stores like PC World often have limits to them, while as custom built PC's can be built right to your specification.

It seemed okay at first, but the first few cases that arrived where damaged and so had to wait. However problems emerged. As I run my own online station I needed to use this computer for broadcasting, and a problem happened when using my microphone. At first it turned out to be a dodgey port and they replaced the case again, third time lucky eh? Well not really, the problem still happened every so often.

They tried telling me anything they could think of. Told me it was my speakers, tried with headphones same happened. Said it was my microphone, but it even did it with the headset they leant me. The buisness was owened by two people. One of them said that he didn't think anything was wrong, and if he found it to be the case would make me pay for all the work they had done. I got annoyed and said that there was something wrong, and would go to the citizens advise buro if they couldn't sort it. I kept it cool, but he then said you do that and then threatened to throw me down the stairs if I did come back.

The funny thing is they eventually found out it was the motherboard, like one of the main things. One of my friends went back there once and the guy said something like I would have sorted it in the end, I apparently just went on too much. It took them months to sort it, which shows if I hadn't kept at it they would have done nothing.

All I'm saying is you have more chance of a refund, fix or replacement if you go to a large well known chain store than a small retailer. One of the problems with building your own if you don't know much is if something does go wrong you can't really get it fixed so easily.

[The Professor]

If your going to buy a computer from a shop/store buy it from a large one.

From where I'm from is a local Cyber Cafe, didn't really know it was around. But I knew a friend and a cousin who had used it before a few times and they built computers to. I really liked the sound of it. I know often computers bought in large stores like PC World often have limits to them, while as custom built PC's can be built right to your specification.

It seemed okay at first, but the first few cases that arrived where damaged and so had to wait. However problems emerged. As I run my own online station I needed to use this computer for broadcasting, and a problem happened when using my microphone. At first it turned out to be a dodgey port and they replaced the case again, third time lucky eh? Well not really, the problem still happened every so often.

They tried telling me anything they could think of. Told me it was my speakers, tried with headphones same happened. Said it was my microphone, but it even did it with the headset they leant me. The buisness was owened by two people. One of them said that he didn't think anything was wrong, and if he found it to be the case would make me pay for all the work they had done. I got annoyed and said that there was something wrong, and would go to the citizens advise buro if they couldn't sort it. I kept it cool, but he then said you do that and then threatened to throw me down the stairs if I did come back.

The funny thing is they eventually found out it was the motherboard, like one of the main things. One of my friends went back there once and the guy said something like I would have sorted it in the end, I apparently just went on too much. It took them months to sort it, which shows if I hadn't kept at it they would have done nothing.

All I'm saying is you have more chance of a refund, fix or replacement if you go to a large well known chain store than a small retailer. One of the problems with building your own if you don't know much is if something does go wrong you can't really get it fixed so easily.

Which is what forums are for You have to start somewhere!