I used Fry's because there was one just a few miles from me in LA until they went under last year. After I retired and bought a house 125 miles away I bought all the components from Fry's for my new business desktop. Long story short I went through 3 bad brand new mobo's and yes I know all about checking the packaging to make sure they were not simply restocked.

The third time I took them up on their $85 offer to put it together while I waited. This was a two week process because I had to wait until I needed to drive into LA again and swapped mobo's and then back home discover that one was also bad. Their tech went through another bad mobo and he said they had no more left so he used a very similar gaming version which cost me an extra twenty bucks but was good.

After talking at length to the tech who did the assembly he said this happens all the time as in ALL THE TIME. The QC coming out of China has gotten much worse over the last few years. No way will I be ordering parts online, spend a couple hours putting it all together and all I get are boot errors when I'm sitting here in the boonies with no one to yell at.

Thanks for posting this, I'll be using NewEgg and be happy to pay them $95 because that makes all the bad new parts their problem and yeah, I can see that can increase the delivery time. As it was it took me pretty much all day at Fry's because first the tech tested the mobo I returned to verity it was bad which it was, then he discovered the last one they had left was also bad before he used the gaming one.

Bob

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