As some of you may remember, a few months ago I ordered an Intel Coppermine Pentium-III 700MHZ CPU from a place called Accubyte. Some of you may also remember that it took an incredibly long ammount of time for me to receive that processor (over a month from the day I placed the order). Well, I cruised on down to ResellerRatings.com today and found Accubyte listed with a rating of 2.7 (on a scale of 10). Out of curiousity, I checked the customer comments and found that many others had gotten the shaft as well, most of them having been shipped incorrect or mis-marked merchandise.
This made me curious about my own order, so I dug up the shipping receipt. To my surprise, it said "INTEL PIII 700 256K SLOT1". There was no mention of it being a Coppermine. Feeling unnerved, I rebooted my computer and watched carefully as it ran through my hardware. Sure enough, it displayed my processor as an "Intel PIII 700". My brother's CPU is clearly marked as an "Intel PIII 500E" ('E' meaning Coppermine). Now I'm roughly 95% positive that I was shipped the wrong CPU (and overcharged on it to boot, considering that the non-Coppermine PIIIs where about $40 cheaper). Sadly, my 15-day DOA warranty has long since expired, so there's nothing I can do about it at this point...
If any of you are curious, you can read the customer comments here (as well as my own lengthy complaint).
-Keiichi
http://www.geocities.com/morisato_81/
[This message was edited by Keiichi on Jan 16, 2001 at 22:32.]
This made me curious about my own order, so I dug up the shipping receipt. To my surprise, it said "INTEL PIII 700 256K SLOT1". There was no mention of it being a Coppermine. Feeling unnerved, I rebooted my computer and watched carefully as it ran through my hardware. Sure enough, it displayed my processor as an "Intel PIII 700". My brother's CPU is clearly marked as an "Intel PIII 500E" ('E' meaning Coppermine). Now I'm roughly 95% positive that I was shipped the wrong CPU (and overcharged on it to boot, considering that the non-Coppermine PIIIs where about $40 cheaper). Sadly, my 15-day DOA warranty has long since expired, so there's nothing I can do about it at this point...
If any of you are curious, you can read the customer comments here (as well as my own lengthy complaint).
-Keiichi
http://www.geocities.com/morisato_81/
[This message was edited by Keiichi on Jan 16, 2001 at 22:32.]