5/5

posted Apr-29-2002
I bought an AMD Athlon XP 1700+, 60GB hard drive, 512MB RAM, GEforce 4 TI4600 video card. The salesperson was very helpful and told me that the motherboard that I originally wanted seemed to be having a lot of problems and their were a lot of returns on it so he recommended a new one, which I'm glad he did. I got an excellent price on the computer also.
It took a little longer than normal for them to ship it because they were short on the GF4 ti4600 cards which had just came out, but I didn't mind waiting. They even gave me a different brand video card than they normally use and the one they gave me had a better software bundle so I was very happy with that. I ordered a V.90 modem but they upgraded it to a V.92 modem at no extra cost which was also a pleasant surprise.
However their customer support was a little lacking. I had problems with the CD in not wanting to recognize CD's that were placed in it. After calling tech support (they use a 3rd party tech support) they didn't have a clue on why and only could recommend reinstalling the OS, which I had already done. I sent an e-mail to Ibuypower saying that if I couldn't get this resolved I wanted a refund. Victor from Ibuypower actually called me on the phone to try and help and told me there was a problem with Windows XP and the particular CD I was using and that they would exchange it. I went ahead and shipped the system back to them so they could repair it. They sent a shipping form beforehand so I wouldn't have to pay for any shipping. They replaced the hard drive and shipped it back. They could have shipped the CD and let me install it, but I was not comfortable doing that so I just shipped it back to them. Overall I am satisfied with the computer and the company but a little down on their tech support but they were helpful in resolving the problem and making me happy. I would recommend buying from them. The system runs great now and they use quality parts in their systems.

This review was modified by
JimJRJ on July 12 2002 10:06:55 AM