OverDrive PC -- Are they still good?

[MikeSol]

I just want to know if this company is still worth dealing with. There haven't been any reviews of them lately and I want to make sure they are as good as they used to be as far as their customer service and computers go.

[michaels39]

Hard to tell,things have gotten quiet with them since they were merged with VelocityMicro.They were once highly regarded,and their ratings haven't dropped,but there isn't much recent activity.Can't say I'm much of a fan of VelocityMicro,their quality really dropped when they started to expand and went the BestBuy route,but I don't know how being acquired by them has affected OverDrive's quality.

[DTrain291]

I bought a machine from them before the merger. The personal attention I received was beyond excellent. About a year ago I went back to them and identified myself as a former customer looking to buy a new high end rig. I also asked a couple of tech questions regarding a certain config, and was answered via email with a link back to one of their configurator pages.

I just tried to configure a rig on OPC the other day. If you look closely, you'll notice that by default they give you an OPC t-shirt. Well, if you click the drop-down box, you'll see that you can select "No t-shirt" and it subtracts $25 from your total. My point is that I'd be very leary of a company that is selling a product at a premium price and is still trying to weasel an extra $25 out of you.

On some plus notes, their prices, while still high, are much more reasonable than in the old days, and they are still getting some exellent clocks on air cooling.