I got ripped off...advise pleez

[Roscoroo]

Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
I stand corrected on the CPU-Z information.  I was simply using my own experience.  I pushed my 2600 up to 2.3 Ghz by upping the FSB to 200 and CPU-Z still shows it as an XP 2600+ (even though my BIOS recognizes it only as "AthlonXP 2.31Ghz").  I have no idea how this can be if CPU-Z simply reads from the BIOS, but I know it happens.  Thats why I assumed it would accurately report the CPU regardless of changes.

I just tossed that up for general info ... try cpuid with a applebred or a sempron and watch it freak .. it says unknown cpu most of the time ....  lol  , but it will show its clocking ect ..

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Chairboy
Well, I guess we have our answer.  Too bad loser isn't gonna man up and apologize to the guy he accused.  Pretty sad state of affairs, and disappointing.  His continued absence seems to be pretty good evidence of that.

I hope the powder keg you're holding blows up in your face.   Your ineptness or Net Ninja-dom are amusing me more than anything else.  

Chairboy, I think where you and everyone else differ is simple.  People offering suggestions to remedy a problem, are better than acting like a d*ck.  

Karaya

PS - Boxboy was a former co-worker and I also met Loser at the 2003 con.  He is NOT a liar.  Did you jackazzes think that maybe since his computer IS BROKEN it might be a tad bit difficult to POST in here?

[Torque]

long weekend chair, maybe he went fish'n.

[Chairboy]

You might be right Torque.  Masher, I didn't call loser a liar, I suggested that he made a mistake by jumping the gun and accusing someone of theft by mistake.

Also, I think offering suggestions is great, but tell me this:  If someone has the flu, and someone else helpfully suggests that they can heal it by applying a tourniquet, is the 3rd party that says 'hold on a minute....' really a dick?

BTW, if his computer is broken, you have any thoughts on how he posted the problem & ran CPU Z in the first place?  That's another example of just not thinking things through.  You can do better, mash.

[loser]

Wow Chair.......just wow.

First off, I didnt directly accuse the guy of anything. I just new something was up. I just showed him the report and asked him to explain it to me. I never mentioned the words "steal" or "switched" or anything of the sort. It kind of shocked me that HE jumped to that conclusion. I was willing to chalk it up to an honest mistake or listen to his explanation as to why it was showing what it did.

But the fact of the matter is: He didnt mention anything when i was paying for the computer about it running slower..for any reason whatsoever.

When I discovered this fact on my own, I simply called him to ask him what was up. He gave me reasons like: some CPUs were mislabeled (after which i informed him that It clocked right before,) that the CPU must have been "partially damaged," and that "he couldnt do anyhting about it."


All of that stuff didnt fly for me.

I havent pulled the heatsink off yet, which i guess i will have to in order to be sure. I hope it is fairly obvious and I wont have to go decoding a bunch of numbers to figure out just which processor it is.

The simple fact is, I either got ripped off, which if that is not the case I'm more than man up to admit and aplogize for indirectly accusing the guy of ripping me off going with the info I had when i made the said quasi-accustation; or he was hiding something (the fact that my computer would now run 25% slower) that he should have informed me about before I paid for the work and left the store.

Either way I was deceived, plain and simple.

Like I said, i wont know for sure I guess unless iI pull this thing apart, but regardless of that, the guy flipped out when I wanted a wrong righted.

That only added suspicion to whole case.

I was more than polite and curteous with him on both occasions...not losing my cool in the least or firing off direct accusations as you have assumed.

Ill be sure to let everyone know what happened when I get this resolved. RIght or wrong.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Pooh21
I say use the solution to most every problem, wait for him to come out of his store and hit him with a stick when he isnt looking. Sure he might be innocent of messing with your system, and it might be all your mistake, but he IS more then likely guilty of something sometime in his life. So therefore deserves to be hit with a stick.

Why did this make me laugh? I just don't get it, but I laughed... go figure.

[Lizard3]

Heh heh heh...

Offer him a drink Loser!


Couldn't resist.

[eon]

Never a dull moment, eh loser?

vaq