[BBLISA] local vendors for Intel servers?

[stephen wadlow]

That sounds more like bad luck with motherboards instead of a vendor  
problem.   It could have been a design flaw
or a bad run of boards.   It's not unusual with disks, but not  
unheard of with other components.

I've done well with PCFE, and have dozens of rackmount servers from  
them.   Service is _much_ different if you
approach the place as a business, and establish a relationship,  
instead of walking in off the street.   Sure, I've had
problems, but that's true of any vendor, really, and they try hard to  
fix problems when they come up.

Note that PCFE is closing their cambridge store.   Apparently there  
are developers who want that space, and the walk-in
business has become an incredibly small amount of their business as  
they've focused on corporate clients.  There is
probably more info on their webpage.

					steve

On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Nick Giannotti wrote:

> Chalk me up as another one who has had bad luck with PCFE: I bought  
> a dozen machines from them (I needed Socket 478 boards with an ISA  
> Bus on them) and I've had more than 25% of the up and die, due to  
> the motherboards conking out.
>
> I will say that their customer service is good, but their product  
> is, from my experience, unreliable.
>
> On 4/25/06, Eric J. Hansen < ehansen at worldmachine.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, my experience has been the same with PCFE - build  
> delays, wrong parts installed, etc.  They're OK in a pinch, or when  
> you need a quick extra stick of DIMM, but I've learned I can't rely  
> on them for major/planned purchases.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org]  
> On Behalf Of Doug Hirsch
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:35 PM
> To: Andrew D. Fant
> Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] local vendors for Intel servers?
>
> Andy,
>
> I've had mixed luck with PCs For Everyone.  Their configurator is  
> good, but on my last purchase from them, they did not deliver what  
> the configurator configured: wrong main board, wrong I/O cards.  It  
> took several rounds before I noticed all their errors and got them  
> fixed.  Inspect carefully what you receive from PCs For Everyone.
>
> Doug
>
>
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