Has anyone bought MonarchComputer combos?

[Geshtar]

Has anyone bought Combo's from Monarch Computer? It looks like I could save about 20 bucks on the motherboard and 60 bucks on the proc if I buy one of their combos. I am wondering if they still give you all the cables and stuff that come with the motherboard? Do they ship it assembled right after they test or is it disassembled? Have they arrived safely? I'm sure if anything goes bad returning would be a royal pain since they "test" it beforehand.

Thanks for any info

 

[nst6563]

I bought the mb/cpu combo from Monarch and it was a great deal. I also got some napster crap, HL2/CS:S, farcry and something else in the bundle that was free at the time.

They do give all the cables and everything...when I got mine, everything was still in the original wrappers - so they must use their own cables to do the combo setup/test.

one thing to note, I did have to clear CMOS in order to get the system to boot with the rest of my hardware. It seems that when they setup and test, the person doing it sets up the bios for their equipment, and doesn't reset it to defaults when done. no biggie though.