Recent content by gellar

Holy crap is that a monster. I thought *I* splurged. gellar

I made the initial order online on Friday night, then called them Saturday morning to add on the X-Fi sound card.

Thanks for the machine :). Glad to hear you guys are moving the sticker... responses like this are what make me happy to have chosen your company.

I've poked in a few threads here and there about my VM experience as it happened, but since I received my system on Friday and was am so happy with the result, I figured I'd do VM the courtesy of praising them for my experience in it's own thread. I should start from the beginning. All the...

DAMN YOU AND YOUR LOCATION, SIR. ;) Glad to see all went well... I gotta say I can't wait till Friday.

Yeah but mine's gotta come ALL the way to CA from VA. There's plenty of opportunity for UPS jackassery on it's way to me. I have my fingers crossed.

I'd just like to chime in that VM beat their estimated ship date for me by nearly a week. I should have my system on Friday according to UPS. Hopefully this means yours ships early too, Ben.

I was faced with the same decision and went VM. Though actually, I tried to go ABS at first but they weren't exactly easy to buy from. Still though... after my experience with VM thus far (which I'll likely document in another thread), I'm happy with my decision. My PC hit the assembly...

That sucks Scott... hopefully everything turns out ok as fast as possible. You've definitely got me worried on my current VM order... :(

Awesome Ben... glad to see you dumped Alienware as well. My system is fairly similar and should ship soon too. I didn't go *quite* as nuts as you did, but the core system is the same (E6600/7950). Can't wait for mine to ship either!

Ben, Funny you mention that... as I talked about in another thread here, I had the exact same experience with Alienware and ordered from VM for the reason's you're considering. I also did had to step down from the E6700 to the E6600 to get the price to match up, but was more than happy to do...

Totally agree. If they had been straight up with me the first (or 2nd or 3rd) time I asked what the delay was, I would have had no problem waiting. I'm not getting my PC from Velocity Micro that much sooner than I would have from Alienware, but it's the principle of getting dicked around that...

Wow... that's quite funny. Yeah I was pretty upset at Alienware's communication throughout the whole deal. The fact that they're letting people order online RIGHT NOW and not informing anyone of the delay is just flat out wrong. Two of my friends also ended up cancelling Alienware orders...

You know... last friday I nearly ordered a PC from ABS. I wanted a new core duo system and since Alienware has MAJOR supply issues with their new case (they told me they wouldn't even get the case until Sept 15, and this was after having my order in the queue since the end of July), I decided...