Mostly true...

[tcepsa]

Amused at this quotation from TigerDirect regarding an AMD Athlon 42 X2 4200+ CPU:
"Dual-core technology is like having two processors, and two working together is better and faster than one working alone."

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[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

When I worked at Radiant Ideas, we made the error of buying some machines and parts from Tiger Direct - back in 2001 or so. I hope they've improved since then, but this fills me with very little confidence.

2 better and faster than 1?

[ex-greymaide85.livejournal.com]

Processor 1: Hey, honey, I'm going to play some WoW now.

Processor 2: What? No, no you're not, I'm defragging over here!

Processor 1: Well, can't you take a break so I can play some WoW?

Processor 2: We really need to talk about your priorities.

Re: 2 better and faster than 1?

[tcepsa.livejournal.com]

This explains so much!!!

[tcepsa.livejournal.com]

~wry grin~ Depending on exactly what sorts of issues you had with them, I think they have; I've gotten a couple of one-off things from them without any trouble--at least without trouble that I would pin on them. I had a motherboard that I'm pretty sure I ordered through them whose USB connectors stopped working, but I also got my current CPU from them and it's been working fine for the past year and a half... and I'm more inclined to be grumpy with MSI for the motherboard (I think I had a videocard from them that failed before I wanted to replace it as well...) than with Tiger Direct.

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Ah, good to hear that they might be improving. We got a Windows 2000 server which, in sequence, proved to have a ground fault through the board, a bad power supply, bad ram, bad CMOS (on the replacement board, both ram and CMOS) and... several other things. Eventually my the fellow I worked with punched it dead, which was, in my opinion, the best $2000 the company ever spent. Next machine behaved, and we started having sane work days.