"It's easier to work with, cheap to replace, and I'm not worried about getting it scratched up or damaged"
I totally agree with you. I own a Lian-Li PC-65, and while I loved it at first, I prefer Antec now. Lian-Li cases are easy to work with, but Antec is even easier, and cheaper.
One thing that has worried me to no end is the scratches these brushed aluminum cases get! They are very easy to scratch, and it seriously mars their appearance. It is terrible taking this thing to LANs, even though it's sturdy it have to wrap it in a blanket like a baby to avoid scratches in transit.
The X-Bit link from this post has a good picture of the card. It looks like a monster of a 2-slot card. And its got 2 huge fans on it, to boot. Passive indeed. If they got it running with no fans then they'd have something to talk about.
I worked at Best Buy for all of 2 days before I quit. This was in the Summer of '04.
I applied for a comp tech position, figuring that being the slashdotter type I was far more apt than their current stock. I was right. However during my first of 3(!?) interviews, I was told (what I later found out to be a lie from the mouth of a recently hired tech) that you must have at least one cert to be hired as a tech. A+, MCSE, CCNA, etc. Ha.
Then they asked me about another position I'd be interested in, I said I'd settle to work the floor as long as I could move to tech when a position opened. They put me working registers.
For the two days I was in training, 4 of the 5 people I trained under lied to customers to get them to sign on for the PSP/PRP's, and the department head essentially told us not let customers say no to PRP/PSP's, as well as some junky free magazine offer they push at the register. Typical sale scam techniques, and for all that lieing and cheating of the customers I wouldn't be making commission.
Every employee there seemed dedicated to screwing the customers out of every last penny, not in what they actually needed. What really bothered me was how much the employees seemed to shop there. Working the registers I constantly saw employees buying tons of expensive things there (not just for friends with the employee discount). It doesn't seem right to get paid and then give all of that money back to the employer.
When I told my dept. Manager I was quiting, he took me into the store manager's office and stood behind me mad-dogging me while the store manager quetsioned me about why I wanted to quit. I wiped my posterior with the shirt before I turned it back in.
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"It's easier to work with, cheap to replace, and I'm not worried about getting it scratched up or damaged"
I totally agree with you. I own a Lian-Li PC-65, and while I loved it at first, I prefer Antec now. Lian-Li cases are easy to work with, but Antec is even easier, and cheaper.
One thing that has worried me to no end is the scratches these brushed aluminum cases get! They are very easy to scratch, and it seriously mars their appearance. It is terrible taking this thing to LANs, even though it's sturdy it have to wrap it in a blanket like a baby to avoid scratches in transit.
The X-Bit link from this post has a good picture of the card. It looks like a monster of a 2-slot card. And its got 2 huge fans on it, to boot. Passive indeed. If they got it running with no fans then they'd have something to talk about.
I worked at Best Buy for all of 2 days before I quit. This was in the Summer of '04.
I applied for a comp tech position, figuring that being the slashdotter type I was far more apt than their current stock. I was right. However during my first of 3(!?) interviews, I was told (what I later found out to be a lie from the mouth of a recently hired tech) that you must have at least one cert to be hired as a tech. A+, MCSE, CCNA, etc. Ha.
Then they asked me about another position I'd be interested in, I said I'd settle to work the floor as long as I could move to tech when a position opened. They put me working registers.
For the two days I was in training, 4 of the 5 people I trained under lied to customers to get them to sign on for the PSP/PRP's, and the department head essentially told us not let customers say no to PRP/PSP's, as well as some junky free magazine offer they push at the register. Typical sale scam techniques, and for all that lieing and cheating of the customers I wouldn't be making commission.
Every employee there seemed dedicated to screwing the customers out of every last penny, not in what they actually needed. What really bothered me was how much the employees seemed to shop there. Working the registers I constantly saw employees buying tons of expensive things there (not just for friends with the employee discount). It doesn't seem right to get paid and then give all of that money back to the employer.
When I told my dept. Manager I was quiting, he took me into the store manager's office and stood behind me mad-dogging me while the store manager quetsioned me about why I wanted to quit. I wiped my posterior with the shirt before I turned it back in.