![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Well, Asus continues to pass the buck on troubleshooting or RMA'ing the replacement board.
Meanwhile, my Dad and I talked. He agreed that this was kinda ridiculous, and extended his offer to help me get a Dell again. He even said that I just have to pay him the monthly payments, and not to worry about money up front.
( So... )
Estimated delivery is 9/15-9/16.
Alex and I will get his old fileserver running, and we'll put my old drives in there so I can do a data restore/transfer.
And then we'll be ready to go to town, boyos.
Then we'll be ready to go to town.
I will be the first to say I could have built it myself for cheaper, but that wouldn't get me in home service, a warranty that lasts for a year and a half past when I finish paying for it, or $50 monthly payments, which makes that fit in my budget much better than $1500 to build something equivalent.
And that 2 week wait is actually less than I'd be waiting for a new board if I was somehow able to ship the current motherboard back to Asus today and let them do the 10 buisness day RMA process on it before sending it back.
It's one of the highest-end machines I've ever used, and the only thing that I can think of that beats it in terms of performance right now is the new gaming machine I built for Steve. Even then, I have a slight edge in processor speed...
Damn, it's exciting.
Meanwhile, my Dad and I talked. He agreed that this was kinda ridiculous, and extended his offer to help me get a Dell again. He even said that I just have to pay him the monthly payments, and not to worry about money up front.
( So... )
Estimated delivery is 9/15-9/16.
Alex and I will get his old fileserver running, and we'll put my old drives in there so I can do a data restore/transfer.
And then we'll be ready to go to town, boyos.
Then we'll be ready to go to town.
I will be the first to say I could have built it myself for cheaper, but that wouldn't get me in home service, a warranty that lasts for a year and a half past when I finish paying for it, or $50 monthly payments, which makes that fit in my budget much better than $1500 to build something equivalent.
And that 2 week wait is actually less than I'd be waiting for a new board if I was somehow able to ship the current motherboard back to Asus today and let them do the 10 buisness day RMA process on it before sending it back.
It's one of the highest-end machines I've ever used, and the only thing that I can think of that beats it in terms of performance right now is the new gaming machine I built for Steve. Even then, I have a slight edge in processor speed...
Damn, it's exciting.
