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To: greg s who wrote (86140)	7/31/2002 3:29:11 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

greg, CompUSA tried it and failed miserably. Have they stopped selling their "private label" PCs? Joe

To: greg s who wrote (86140)	7/31/2002 3:49:08 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

greg, COMPUSA seems to have been run by morons and their stuff was the cheapest of the cheap generic white box stuff. I hope BB at least buys from a reputable power supply maker and mobo maker. COMPUSA had different cheap power supplies every week. With all things now made in aautomated factories there is no reason to buy garbage. Take the trouble to check the quality. Approve a power supply and all the parts in it and insist that the same parts be used on an ongoing basis. Standard parts, like capacitors, will have several approved sources. That way you get close to zero failures in power supplies, mobos etc. The bad sources use replacement parts from a scattering of different sources, as if all monolithic or tantalum capacitors were the same. next thing you know they have shorts/leakers on the powerbus, and they stink or bang on powerup,esp the tantalum bangers. Bill