Re: PCWorld = thieving bastards???



Gaz wrote:

Visited a customer yesterday, who bought a computer from pcworld eighteen
months ago, he was having trouble getting some newish 3d based games to work
(ie. they where stuttering).

When he bought the PC, he asked the assistant there to recommend a good
graphics card to play games, which they did, and said they would fit it and
come back for it, on return, he was told that the card wasnt compatible, but
they had another one that was, which was a bit more expensive, which hed
paid.

He was charged £120 for a pci (yes, pci, not pci-e) version of an nvidia
fx5200. His machine has a 16x pci-e slot, and the best that PC world could
give him was a pci card of nvidias weakest card.

Was it just incompetence????? But, really what kind of mong would recommend
and fit a pci fx5200 card in a machine with pci-e?

Gaz

It is almost the same scam as shown in "Rough Trader", where the PC expert,
swapped the graphics card with an inferior card an pinched half of the RAM.
Though he charged £328 for that little fix. The number wasn't taken out of
thin air; he was driving a bmw, LOL!
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