Motherboards from MWave.com

[Packin]

I am wondering if all of mwave's motherboards are retail and come with all the accessories. Anyone bought a motherboard (specifically gigabyte ga-8irxp but any experience will do) and know if they are retail and not oem? I know it should say something like "bare card" but never hurts to be safe. Thanks.

-Packin-

 

[FishToRat]

I purchased a gigabyte 8IHXP from mwave.com about a week ago. I recieved a brand new, boxed, retail board with all the accessories.

 

[flawedexistence]

I have purchased two mobos from Mwave (Asus). Both were retail and were completely satisfactory. If a product is OEM, it should be designated as such on their website.

 

[Heinrich]

I bought an Abit BH6 from them several years ago and got a complete normal retail package. Newegg has become my 'favorite' computer online retailer, but MWave is #2. I still buy from them regularly. Good people, good customer service, but some of their prices can be really high compared to newegg. There was a rumor for a long time that newegg=mwave but I'm pretty sure that's been laid to rest. They use the same software but are different companies. If anyone cares :-]

 

[kgraeme]

I've always gotten new from Mwave, but I won't buy from them anymore. I've noticed that they have really horrible packaging on their products. My mobo came in a FedEx box turned inside out and cut to the exact size of the mobo box with no padding or protection of any kind. The drives I last ordered were in a Microsoft bulk OEM software box with a little bubblewrap around the drives but about an inch of extra space all around so that the drives were rattling around inside the box and one came in damaged.

Outpost is an excellent online retailer. Good packaging. Excellent shipping. Their overnight shipping is cheaper than many places ground shipping and when they say overnight, they mean anything ordered before midnight is on your desk the next day, and they will even deliver on Saturday. No "processing" time before it ships, no worry about ordering before the 4:30 deadline or it takes on yet another day. With vendors like Newegg and Mwave, next day means ordering something overnight on Monday evening gets it to you hopefully by Wednesday and costs you $30 instead of $9.

Sorry about the rant. I've just had too many screwups with Mwave and Newegg. Unfortunately, Outpost doesn't carry as good a selection as they do. And they carry the GA-8IEXP, but not the raid version. So I'll shut up now.

 

[Antoneo]

Yep, my motherboard (Epox 4G4A+) came the way kgraeme described. Mwave seems to like bare minimum packaging protection but luckily the motherboard was ok. NewEgg is better though I have to RMA a Gainward GF4 Ti4200 because the retail box has no bubble wrap, just cardboard support.

 

[Pardus]

Last time i bought a mb from mwave, was a Abit BE6 2.0 board, i asked them if it was version 2.0 or not, they sent me the BE6 but version 1.0 also packed horrible. Stick with newegg, they got it down right.

 

[Techno]

Yep, Mwave's packaging sucks!

IMHO when boxing stuff up, the best company is Buycomp.com.

 

[drewdogg808]

i've bought at least 3 motherboards from them...never had any problems with their packaging, all were retail boxed. then again, i've bought about 5 times as much from newegg too.

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

i bought a epox 8k3a+ from them, the packaging was fine, but they sent me the revision 1.0 board of it, good thing the only difference between the newer ones is the sound otherwise i would be pissed.........

so the story is

check the revision!

 

[Packin]

Thanks everyone, I decided to go with mwave.com because the board at newegg is out of stock.

 

[incallisto]

Originally posted by: Packin
I am wondering if all of mwave's motherboards are retail and come with all the accessories. Anyone bought a motherboard (specifically gigabyte ga-8irxp but any experience will do) and know if they are retail and not oem? I know it should say something like "bare card" but never hurts to be safe. Thanks.

-Packin-

I am not sure if they are ALL retail, but the product descriptions for many of their boards are rather vague to say the least.

 

[AvatarD]

To add a quick addendum if I may: How is TCWO.com??? I've never ordered anything from them, but I'm looking. Any experience??

 

[kgraeme]

Originally posted by: Packin
Thanks everyone, I decided to go with mwave.com because the board at newegg is out of stock.

Good luck. I will say that even though Mwave shipping sucks, their RMA process is hassle-free. Of course, that's another $12 spent...