warm, free pc check from compusa

[rahdpsu2]

what title says, may help someone, heres link http://www.compusa.com/pcpitstop/default.asp

 

[cpals]

Personally, I never trust those things because I think they do more harm then good. Hot for some!

Linkified

 

[baclips6]

Originally posted by: cpals
Personally, I never trust those things because I think they do more harm then good. Hot for some!

I agree.

 

[pspada]

You've got to wonder even if you do use it - if it recommends a hard drive or memory upgrade or some such - is it doing so because your system really needs it, or so they can sell you the parts.

 

[huesmann]

I always assume the latter.

 

[DrPizza]

Oh darn, I thought compusa was going to send me a check. (the kind you cash at the bank)

 

[labgeek]

Makes me think of the "computerized water testing" for swimming pool owners at pool stores. The machines that do the testing are made by the companies producing the chemicals. "Can you say conflict of interest boys and girls? ... I knew you could".

 

[Cleaner]

Conflict of Interest....Yep your right I can say it. Thanks for the encouragement. Also yes they will probably try to rip you off. Their a business not social services for computers. Its like those signs that say 'Free Brake Inspection'. Well I'm willing to bet $20 that they'll find SOMETHING wrong with your brakes that will be NECESSARY to fix IMMEDIATELY! As P.T. Barnum said 'there's a sucker born every minute.'

 

[Squalish2357]

The title is appropriate, but far too close to "free PC." You might want to change it to something else.

And the deal is cold.

 

[wampa]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Oh darn, I thought compusa was going to send me a check. (the kind you cash at the bank)

same

 

[Bookmage]

well, all I've read is why u shouldn't use it, but I went ahead and testedit just for fun.
It ran thru processor test, memory, read/write on hard drives and video test. It displayed a bunch of pictures
and drew a lot of text really fast. Bringing back memories of hte old Winstone tests,
it told me I had a fast system that should meet all my computer needs, and it does... for hte most part.
It gave me a wining flag for everything but my aging Voodoo5 and accurately detected my
two WD 80GB SE and 200GB SE hard drives and told me the benefit of using NTFS (which I was
using on my 200GB) and told me NTFS suffered some performance compared to FAT32 (which I don't care about)
and it said not to convert for very little performance gain. It gave me a flag about the IE security and
coudlnt detect the security settings thru my firewall/NAT It gave me a numerical score of 433 and explained
how and what hte numbers meant.
Overall, it was a very fun run and gave some recommendations but didn't tell me I needed to buy anything new
(which I don't, even thought I want to ) Now to test it on my Linux box (BookPC w/celeron 500Mhz) and see wut it says


Asus CUSL2
P3 1Ghz,
384MB PC133 SDRAM
WD 80GB SE
WD 200GB SE
Voodoo 5 5500 PCI
Intel 815 integrated graphics
Sony SDM-M81 18in LCD
NEC Mulstisync XV15
Sound Blaster Audigy
Pinnacle Studio PCTV
(Lousy POS drivers)
Windows 2K Pro w/SP3

 

[alm4rr]

This is probably less about selling goods as it is gathering marketing data.

 

[pspada]

Originally posted by: Squalish2357
The title is appropriate, but far too close to "free PC." You might want to change it to something else.

And the deal is cold.

So, should he change it to read "..flee, pc check from compusa"?

 

[toant103]

i got a score of 889

 

[SgtZulu]

Install an Active-X program from chumpusa?
They must think I use AOL also.

 

[ai42]

Can I do this B&M? I would do it just to see the face on the techs once they see my water-cooled overclocked behemoth of a computer. I mean pretty much everything is top of the line (AXP 1800 tbred b clocked to 2400 speed, 512 mushkin PC3200, kt400 mobo, 120gb WD 8mb, 48x lite on burner, 16x lite on dvd, radeon 9500 software hacked to 9700, and of course watercooled with the case windows lights and LED modded, also 5v fan operation is totally silent).

FYI NTFS cannot be converted to FAT32 (at least not without a windows reinstall).

 

[FrancescoRinaldi]

Well, it's not quite as bad as some would think.

Yes, they sing the praises of CompUSA's services, yadda yadda

But, they do give you a bit of info too, slanted though it may be.

My score: 996 (geforce3, athlon 1700+, seagate 80 gig drive). They dinged me for some really dumb stuff, but I think even an average user could see through it and fix the little things themselves rather than pay someone to do it.

Strange, as I always thought PCpitstop was a PC magazine thing? Guess one bought the other or whatever.