good local motherboard source?

[agabriel at home.tzo.org (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Bob,
	I have good luck 99% of the time with pricewatch people.  Just
call the company and see if they have it before placing your order.

Anthony 

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bob Keyes wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have been getting tired of waiting for kernels to compile on my lowly
> 833 mhz p3, so I am looking to upgrade. Athlon XP 2100 seems to be the
> sweet spot right now, looking at pricewatch shows multiple vendors with
> board/cpu/fan for under $100. I placed an order with tufshop, but they've
> claimed they are out of stock and are now trying to bait & switch me. I
> then read online reviews that show they are really horrible. This makes me
> doubt other pricewatch vendors as well. So anyhow I am going to cancel my
> order with tufshop.
> 
> Anyhow know of a good local place to pick up something like this?
> MicroCenter steals from you by not being reliable with rebates,
> pcsforeveryone seems expensive and their staff seems to only want to sell
> full $2000 systems. I am willing to pay a small premium for a local
> purchase but they seller needs to be GOOD.
> 
> By local I mean T accessible.
> 
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