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B&M Locations to buy a motherboard?

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Alienwho

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I need to buy a motherboard today and I can't find a B&M location that carries motherboards.

Best buy doesn't have any
I think CompUSA pulled out of my state
no microcenter, no frys,

Anybody I'm missing that I can look for?

Punting to Motherboards. Go long!

-ViRGE
 
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Local shops might have what you're looking for (or more likely, what will work) amidst their junk.

Fortunately its friday and you can drive a few hundred miles if needed too.
 
Local shops in my city have them, but they're usually craptastic motherboards and usually are overpriced.
 
without a frys or microcenter, you'll have to get lucky to find a good local store...check the yellow pages and call around
 
I've decided I'm SOL. We do have a few local shops but they are terrible. Overpriced, non existent return policy.

The problem is my mobo for my system is DOA. Well, semi dead, the fans spin but I only get a post about 50% of the time, and any time I change a BIOS setting it won't boot until I reset CMOS. (ASRock X58 Extreme, pretty much everybody who rated it one egg on newegg has this exact same problem)

Newegg was nice enough to RMA it for me even though it's been over 30 days since purchase. I bought it over a month ago but it's just been sitting in the box as I waited to get my i7. The problem with the RMA is they won't send the new one until they get the current one in their hands. So I'm looking probably 8 business days before I get the new mobo. I was thinking of just buying one locally and selling the replacement newegg was going to send me.

Funny how the internet hardware sales business has virtually crushed the local B&M market unless you live in a certain city that has fry's or microcenter.
 
Alienwho said:
I've decided I'm SOL. We do have a few local shops but they are terrible. Overpriced, non existent return policy.

The problem is my mobo for my system is DOA. Well, semi dead, the fans spin but I only get a post about 50% of the time, and any time I change a BIOS setting it won't boot until I reset CMOS. (ASRock X58 Extreme, pretty much everybody who rated it one egg on newegg has this exact same problem)

Newegg was nice enough to RMA it for me even though it's been over 30 days since purchase. I bought it over a month ago but it's just been sitting in the box as I waited to get my i7. The problem with the RMA is they won't send the new one until they get the current one in their hands. So I'm looking probably 8 business days before I get the new mobo. I was thinking of just buying one locally and selling the replacement newegg was going to send me.

Funny how the internet hardware sales business has virtually crushed the local B&M market unless you live in a certain city that has fry's or microcenter.
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Local shops depend more on service and computer illiterate customers. Prices are always higher but can come in handy in emergencies. It doesn't sound like your situation is a true emergency.
 
You should move to a location near a Fry's, in your situation I would drive there, purchase a board, install it, and return it upon receipt of my rma.
 
Heh, nearest fry's or microcenter is 400+ miles away.

After reading more newegg reviews on the board with people having multiple problems with their replacement boards, I contacted newegg and they changed my replacement to an in store credit. I'll apply those funds to getting a hopefully better board shipped today.
 
ussfletcher said:
You should move to a location near a Fry's, in your situation I would drive there, purchase a board, install it, and return it upon receipt of my rma.
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That is so wrong. You have any ethics? I suppose you buy clothes just to go out for the night and then return them also. Nice.
 
Alienwho said:
Heh, nearest fry's or microcenter is 400+ miles away.

After reading more newegg reviews on the board with people having multiple problems with their replacement boards, I contacted newegg and they changed my replacement to an in store credit. I'll apply those funds to getting a hopefully better board shipped today.
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Yeah, newegg is great with that. One time I contacted them to RMA a board and forgot to send it right away and 30 days passed. By the time I remembered I had to complain to the rep that tried to deny me. I told him I already had the RMA request in on time and that I had given them a lot of business. The rep changed his tune. I got him to send me a t-shirt as well.
 
bigboxes said:
That is so wrong. You have any ethics? I suppose you buy clothes just to go out for the night and then return them also. Nice.
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Ha, well I have not done this specifically, however when my computer failed to boot I did buy a new motherboard and power supply to test all my parts and then returned them.
 
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