Review for user MDE from Gerbil

  • Gerbil (143)

    I bought a brand new (only tested for a matter of hours) Asus A8N-E with an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Retail.

    Gerbil was the Seller on June 16, 2005 AnandTech

    I jumped on MDE's thread within an hour or so of him posting it. He replied to my PMs in a matter of minutes and we quickly finalized the deal. I paid first since he's been a member of AnandTech for so long and has a few years on this Heatware account, despite this being only his 13th evaluation.

    He shipped on Monday as he had indicated that he would. I received a very large box with plenty of peanuts to protect the motherboard and CPU boxes. Great job there!

    I inspected the motherboard and CPU and they indeed looked brand new. I wouldn't have known the difference if Newegg had sent me the same package (until later). The motherboard was perfectly clean, and so was the CPU despite having been tested.

    I had to wait two days for my Newegg and Jab-Tech orders to arrive and he patiently waited for me to test the combo. I built the computer yesterday and ran 6.5 hours of memtest86+ and then spent hours using the computer, running benchmarks, and playing some games. It was flawless.

    He forgot to include the CD, but hey, I've done the same thing before, and it's no big deal since everything can be downloaded from nVidia and Asus. In fact, I didn't even realize it was missing until I'd already downloaded and installed all of the latest drivers and I looked around to find the Asus CD to install hardware monitoring utilities! I PM'ed him because I thought maybe I'd lost the disc, so he offered to send me the .ISO via MSN Messenger to get it here quickly. I agreed, however, he had some internet connection trouble. He spent at least an hour or two trying to get that going. We both left it running overnight on our secondary computers, but my power went out two hours later, and only my primary machine (the one with the combo) has a UPS.

    Anyway, MDE put forth great effort in this deal and did everything as I?ÇÖd expect from even the most experienced traders. Thank you for the AWESOME combo!

    June 16, 2005