RAISE AN EYEBROW AT MY EMERGING NEW BUILD

[Kalahari Inkantation]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mXGKLP

I came home Friday night with a shiny new 10850k in hand.

No of course I don't nearly need it.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

can I find you some weird ass cases

yes please

i'm not entirely sure i want a new case just yet (i mean i'm only now getting a motherboard that properly fits my current one LOL) but i do kind of like the idea of an entirely new æsthetic and totally novel pc experience

[Hiro]

tbh your case seems pretty decent, plus having a disc drive takes out a lot of options these days

[Kalahari Inkantation]

oh the case on pcpicker is actually just a placeholder lol

my actual one is the much older version of this

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-11-353-136

all black, no rgb

i do like it v. much but i'm also not opposed to getting something entirely new if y'all've any suggestions

I mean, I will need something to keep the old still fully functional components fully functioning in.

[Hiro]

Is the disc drive a requirement then? If not I think the Fractal Meshify 2 Compact would be good for you
this also seems decent: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mid-tower/masterbox-nr600-with-odd/
I personally really like small form factor cases but I understand if you don't

[silvertone]

cant you just pull the disk drive out and throw a hdd/sdd in their? you could in the 90s

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Is the disc drive a requirement then?

I suppose not... it wouldn't be hard to mount an external drive to a bayless case.

Sooo I just bought this.



i am going to insist on 4, or at least 3 frontal usb ports though lol

Alright boyos hit me with your best cases in the <$130 range. A bit of æsthetix would please me, somewhat.

The Masterbate nr69™ might be a little too brutalistic.

the meshify is kinda nice but also kinda... crumpled

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Also I found 16gb of Intel Optane™ for $10.

also, newegg

[Thyme]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/sjX2FT/fractal-design-case-fdcadefr5bk

COLORLESS MONOLITH

COLORLESS

M O N O L I T H

also, newegg

wow rude

[Kalahari Inkantation]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/sjX2FT/fractal-design-case-fdcadefr5bk

COLORLESS MONOLITH

COLORLESS

M O N O L I T H

i like this implementation of brütalism much more than the nr600's, and BOY do i appreciate a case with 4 usb frontal ports

Why the is that so rare? Who the can survive on just two?

still i would prefer something a tad more intriguing to look at lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

also, newegg

wow rude

i wish it weren't so but they are complete and total ass dude

I purchased this motherboard from Newegg last week.



Seemed like a decent enough discount.

But there was a catch (that you're probably intended not to catch).



See anything unusual? I didn't either. Gee, you'd think such an important detail as "OPEN BOX" would be more prominently featured on the listing, and especially in the link to the ing listing.

Yesterday I received a generic white box containing the board alone and literally nothing else. Without its accessories it is a functionally useless piece of plastic. I had no way whatsoever of knowing this is what I purchased, as "open box" clearly does not appear in the item's link.

It took me ONE AND A HALF HOURS of half-intoxicated debating with their poor overexploited underappreciated customer service person last night before she would recognize that this was OBVIOUSLY not my fault. They wanted over $50 in shipping and """restocking""" fees for me to return their mislabeled, incomplete and defective product.

I'm quite pleased to announce that I debated her down to $0.

i REALLY hate that i had to waste so much of both of our time on this stupidity though, just fukken acknowledge that your website design is poor at best and malicious at worst, and take back the garbage you sent me when i purchased something in good faith reasonably expecting it not to be garbage

jesus ing christ is that SO hard

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i am so glad they send us chat transcripts, you should see how utterly ridiculous this conversation was LOL

https://www.docdroid.net/XAj3zrt/gmail-newegg-your-chat-transcript-with-newegg-customer-service2-pdf

I willingly spent nearly $400 on Newegg as recently as a week ago. Now they will likely never see my business again.

And I sincerely hope this representative will find a better employer in the future.

[Thyme]

oof damn, well i'm glad you were able to return it for free


and of course you would do this over chat 
i would too

[Kalahari Inkantation]

it's funny you say that because i actually dread ing """chatting""" with customer service reps

i go out of my way to avoid it, i MUCH prefer calling

shitass newegg's hotline however was closed and """chat""" was my only option

And honestly I think that turned out to be a good thing. Discussing this over text allowed me ample time to develop reasonable counterpoints to Newegg's loads of bullshi.

the customer service feedback i left after the HOUR AND A HALF it took for them to do the BARE MINIMUM to correct the problem THEY caused ME:

"The customer service person I spoke to was wonderful. Newegg's policies are not. I can only hope she'll soon find a better employer."

LMAO

[Kalahari Inkantation]

and in addition to the hour and a half of my invaluable time i lost to this nonsense, and the even more time and money and slightly-more-expensive-these-days-but-still-WILDLY-underpriced gas i'll also have to spend to take the damn thing to ups..........

I had fully intended on having this computer completed by tonight. I have all other necessary components. Yet I'm now delayed by AT LEAST another week.

honestly they should have provided me restitution for pain, suffering, lost time and lost money i COULD'VE made in a week's worth of ethereum mining as well

newegg