[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Fry's

[Johnie Stafford]

>>> On Thu, 01 May 2003 09:06:49 -0500, Tom Woody <woody at nfri.com> said:

 tw> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 01:10, Joel Sinor wrote:
 >> My advice in general is never buy the cheapest component unless it is a
 >> name-brand and you know for sure what it is.  CDRs and memory are the
 >> worst for this, and no matter where you buy them if you buy cheap you
 >> will end up returning them.  I stick with name brand memory and CDRs,
 >> especially since the only times I have ever broken this rule (recently
 >> buying cheap RAM and another time daring to buy PNY CDRs) nothing worked
 >> period.  
 tw> <snip>

 tw> Well I definitely agree with you on the RAM, only once have I gotten
 tw> away will the Fry's bin special cheapo crap RAM.  

I've been burned by cheap ram before too. So over the last few years
I've always insisted on Mushkin ram. After spending every single day
at Fry's last week swaping parts on a new BYO box, I finally gave in
and dumped the whole pile of parts at the service desk and let them
figure out the problem. It turns out that the Soyo motherboard I got
isn't compatible with Mushkin RAM, I replaced it with a stick of
Corsair and it's running fine now. So if you go to the Garland store,
ignore that great big sign in the components department about how the
Soyo motherboard and Mushkin RAM makes a great game box!

Johnie