Hey everybody, I recently (about a month ago) bought this mid grade gaming rig off of these guys. I…read morewent in one day and told them I was for sure about it and came back a couple of days later for purchase. First day, It originally was $475, said Justin, for...
Motherboard: Asrock Z97 extreme 4 gaming MB
CPU: Intel core i5-4690K
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz (x2 8GB sticks) Corsair vengeance
PSU: CX600M
Hard Drives: x1 250GB SSD & x1 2TB HDD
"Fresh reinstallation of windows 10"
... I was fine with that.
I go back to purchase it and Justin installed an extra 16GB of memory for literally no reason, not requested nor was I told about it before hand, and they raise the price to $500. I accepted that because I was intending on streaming and upgrading so that much RAM was fine so I bought it from Josh (the other man working their) and asked if there was any bloatware or anything I should know about installed and he said no. I brought it home and there was so I cleared them all. So, I downloaded some games from Steam, Battlenet, Xbox App, and began to play. Now, my last rig had cooling issues with the side panel on so I usually had it off, but I left it on this rig because it has better cooling/more fans. It was all working fine at first then it crashed while I was playing COD War Zone so I switched games and that one crashed too... it said "unsuspected error" every time it crashed. I had used MSI afterburner to OC the GPU so I thought it was the GPU crashing from over heating, so I took the side panel off to provide more air to hopefully keep it cooler. The games continued to crash so I did a full fresh reset myself, cleaned the drives, and re-setup windows to my liking.
I reinstalled all game clients I had before and games and they still crashed with the same error message coming after the screen went black. I called the man in charge, Justin, and requested a new layer of thermal paste for the GPU and CPU. He tells me I can't stay at the shop, but they'll stress test it and call me back. Justin calls me so I put the phone on speaker, and my girlfriend is with me listening, and he says that the games didn't crash once and temps never exceeded normal limits. He said, on the phone and in the shop, that they believed it was the CPU overheating, not the GPU, yet they did still reapply the thermal paste. I asked twice in the shop if they reapplied the thermal paste to both the CPU and GPU and they said they did. I bring my rig home to find my chords, GPU, and CPU still dusty with no prints or signs of being removed from their sockets. It crashed once more so I cleared CMOS and reset bios to default and now it works fine.
I called today to talk about how he lied and he kept cutting me off and changing the story. My girlfriend and I both called him and Josh out for it and they denied it. They talked to me like I didn't know anything about computers when I've been using them since I was a kid. I'm not dumb and I'm not blind!
Point of my post... they added to the product and raised the price on me without my knowledge. They gave me a surcharge of $15 for whatever reason. The tax was $51 and some cents. They lied about their services, they were disrespectful, and they denied lying. I don't recommend this place.