Overclocking

well his went down originally because his mobo was bad, the with the new mobo Alex says that they offered to oc it for him and he declined and wanted his friend to oc it, well how is that DS's fault?

on top of that DS is 70 miles from him, so why not just take it there yourself in one day, instead of waiting for a few days for fedex or ups?

as for his nagging about shipping and the cost vs FNW that pays for it is that if you go to FNW and try and build the same system it will come out $1000 to $2000 more expensive, in short when you buy from falcon, you pay for 20 shipping trips back and forth ahead of time, so ya if you want to pay $2000 more for a PC just so that your shipping is covered go ahead

this shopper is an uneducated shopper, its obvious just simply by their statement:

my overclock on the CPU went from 3.7 GHZ to 3.31 GHZ, a very disappointing turn of events, as we opted for the $350 more expensive CPU ([email protected] GHZ vs [email protected] GHZ) so as to enjoy the extra leg room a nice overclock will allow. After many hours of reading the glowing reviews on their forums hearing about all the I7 920's that reach 3.5-3.8 GHZ overclocks, and to spend an additional $350 to only land well below the average "comfort" zone of the less expensive chip is disheartening.

this person is under the misunderstanding that if they get a 940, for sure they will have a better OC then 920, but if they had bothered to ask on the forum or DS rep, they would have been told that they are wrong.

let me tell you guys a story about FNW, when Skulltrail had come out last year, first thing I did was to config one, and of course the price of $12000 back then was looking a bit too much, so I decided that I could get the CPU cheaper myself so I just wanted the Skulltrail with one CPU, so I called FNW to ask them about it, first they talked to me like I owed them something then they told me that they could not sell me a Skulltrail with only one CPU as it would not run with only one. This was pure BS, they thought I was an idiot that does not know and so they wanted to drain me of every bit of cash they could, coupled together with my old experience of over paying for my older FNW led to look for a new PC builder, come to think of it I think it was my first step toward running into DS, after much search I did find DS, called them up and asked them about getting Skulltrail with one CPU, getting a hold of DS was a pain and that kinda turned me off, but then I priced a Skulltrail and the one with DS came out to be around $8000, so I thought to myself its a scam, (coming from FNW prices, trust me, you would think the same thing) so I searched about DS in BBB, reseller, other places and realized that they are a good company that can't answer their phones. Finally got a hold of them and they told me sure they can give it to me with one cpu, not only that but they could also setup the heatsink for the second empty socket so when I add my own CPU I can have that LCed also since the had the water block built and I would receive the system with 2 water blocks, just what I wanted for thousands cheaper. Decided to look pass that and joined the forum to see what was going on here, then I met Alex on the forum and he was so nice, I was sold, looked like great price, great customer service and quality products, only downfall was their phone answering, not that big of deal, I figure new company, as they grow the phone situation will get better.

so this guy wants to over pay by thousands, let him go ahead, I rather pay a proper price for my system and pay for shipping if something should happen, I mean I paid FNW all that extra money and never had to ship my system to them to begin with. You know how many times you have to send your system to FNW to compensate for the price difference from here? lets just say your system would have to break down once every 2 month and need to be sent in.

Edited by DST4ME - 19 May 2009 at 3:54am

Well, I did my spring clean and lost my OC in the process.