Wet pc's and insurance companies..

Todays events..

Offered this spec..


Solution Description System price Quantity Total

Chassis type Chieftec Bravo Full Tower
Power supply 600W True Power Power Supply
Motherboard MSI 945 PL NEO4 - F
Processor type Intel Pentium 4 945 3.0GHz Dual Core
Memory 1GB OCZ Gold Plated 5400
Hard drive details 160GB SATA 7200RPM 8Mb
Modem Zoom Hayes V92 V/F/D Internal Modem
Optical drive Sony Internal DVD-RW+/- Dual Layer
Optical drive None
Network card Integrated 10/100 LAN
Sound Creative Labs Xi-Fi Extreme
Speakers N/A
Graphics adapter ATI X1900 512Mb
Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Monitor None
Software Power DVD/Nero
Other features None
FDD Sony 1.44mb BlackFloppy Drive
Keyboard Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard
Mouse Logitech Optical Mouse
Warranty type 3 Years RTB Warranty


Can someone take a look over this and let me know there thoughts... ( ive noticed no raptors so far.. )
 
tbh, are you gonna get that?
we had talks with our insurance co's loss ajuster, settled on a laptop that did all the things mums old one did, then he said he'ed only give 50% as it was better in 2 areas (hard drive and screen size!)
we just wanted it to have somthing that would play homeworld 2 (old lappy had a geforce)
 
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You've got a good deal.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the Raptors... they're not that much faster in every day usage, despite their cost. ;)

Those Intel dual core CPUs aren't bad either (better than a Northwood C or Prescott) :)
 
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Assasin-uk said:
Having had a brew poured in my top fan has somewhat killed my pc, the insurance company now have it and have offerd me a deal.. here the specs on the pc's mine then the one offered.

All approx 12 months old.

Coolermaster stacker case old style one
Abit ic7 max 3 motherboard
Intel p4 3.0ghz cpu
OCZ 4400 gold ram 2x 512mb
Soundblaster audigy zs2 sound card
ATI x850pro sound card.
Sony dvd-rw
targon 480w psu
Western digital sata raptor 30gb hard disk
seagate ide 60gb hard disk

And offered in replacement.

Black/Silver MINI Tower Case
Generic 350w psu
Intel P4 3.0GHz
1GB DDR400 Memory (generic)
160GB Hard Drive (7200RPM) IDE or sata
Sony DVD-RW
Multi Format Card Reader
Integrated Sound/Graphics/LAN
56k MODEM
**upgraded to fx5500 gfx card? and extra soundblaster 7.1 card**


Now to my mind these are different beasties, i have told the company who assesed it to go away and think again. So far the company "The Source" have been helpfull...

any thoughts... :rolleyes:
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my response to the man from the insurence companys would have been...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAahahahahahahaha... *tears* Ahahahahahahahaha... oh, your serious ?? :eek:
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in future if you dont like your drink, simply put it in the fridge for someone else. much easier... :D
 
Assasin-uk said:
Todays events..

Offered this spec..


Solution Description System price Quantity Total

Chassis type Chieftec Bravo Full Tower
Power supply 600W True Power Power Supply
Motherboard MSI 945 PL NEO4 - F
Processor type Intel Pentium 4 945 3.0GHz Dual Core
Memory 1GB OCZ Gold Plated 5400
Hard drive details 160GB SATA 7200RPM 8Mb
Modem Zoom Hayes V92 V/F/D Internal Modem
Optical drive Sony Internal DVD-RW+/- Dual Layer
Optical drive None
Network card Integrated 10/100 LAN
Sound Creative Labs Xi-Fi Extreme
Speakers N/A
Graphics adapter ATI X1900 512Mb
Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Monitor None
Software Power DVD/Nero
Other features None
FDD Sony 1.44mb BlackFloppy Drive
Keyboard Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard
Mouse Logitech Optical Mouse
Warranty type 3 Years RTB Warranty


Can someone take a look over this and let me know there thoughts... ( ive noticed no raptors so far.. )
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that spec is substantially better than your original look at the gfx card! I would take it if I were you.
 
i've seen the lack of your original Raptor.

could u take back your Raptor?? cos i do remember that Western Digital offers 5 yrs warranty... u can RMA it urself.
 
I know it's a little after the fact but perhaps next time it would be better to take out anything you knew was worth keeping.

That said just go for that setup and then you can always butcher it and turn it into something you exactly want.
 
Thanks for the replies, yeah now its after the fact there would be a lot of things i would do differently.

Carnt realy get any of my old parts back now, i think its too late and apart from that they wanted £75.00

Im pretty happy with the spec so far, saying that im going to price up the case and mobo and ask for a different brand worth the same money.


One more thing, surely i can save some money here by telling them: mine never had a floppy drive, nor did i sed it with a keyboard and mouse and windows xp also? i have my own copy thanks.
 
Assasin-uk said:
One more thing, surely i can save some money here by telling them: mine never had a floppy drive, nor did i sed it with a keyboard and mouse and windows xp also? i have my own copy thanks.
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Not really... insurance companies have deals with Dell and the like to supply replacement PCs and parts at very low prices. It's just what it comes with.
 
Well i have emailed the source and told them im pretty happy with the quote thus far, ive looked up the prices on the mobo and case and asked for a price like for like exchange as im not happy with the brands and quality.

Ive also asked that if possible i can have a raptor drive, after all its exactly what i sent in..

Ive also asked them to take out the: keyboard,mouse, floppy drive and windows xp as i never sent that to them, hopefully they will see this as a gesture of goodwill and we can resolve this once and for all.. :D
 
Looks like they are starting to read some of my e-mails then, Although i did state that it was a coolermaster stacker case and raptor drives, You are entitled to both of them and make sure you say that, Not sure why they have added windows xp though.

What you need to do is demand that you have the raptors and coolermaster stacker case which is what you had originally, The supplier can source both of them.

When you phone up next week i might even speak to you as all off the walsall branches phones are being re-directed to us and then being upgraded.
 
RESULT!!

After my email yesterday requesting certain components the source has come good!!

Chassis type Lian Li PC-7 Aluminium Midi Tower
Power supply 600W True Power Power Supply
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 775 Motherboard
Processor type Intel Pentium 4 945 3.0GHz Dual Core
Memory 1GB OCZ Gold Plated 5400

Hard drive details Western Digital 36Gb Raptor S-ATA
Modem Zoom Hayes V92 V/F/D Internal Modem
Optical drive Silver Internal DVD-RW+/- Dual Layer
Network card Integrated 10/100 LAN
Sound Creative Labs Xi-Fi Extreme

Graphics adapter ATI X1900 512Mb

Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Home

Keyboard Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard
Mouse Logitech Optical Mouse

Warranty type 3 Years RTB Warranty


Gotta say im pretty happy with that lot, i did compromise by asking for the lian-li only as a midi but thats a personal thing... ;)


Many thanks to all of the replies to this thread, im sure it had something to do with the outcome. Thanks to colbaker also for his countless attempts at helping with this.

Will wait for it to arrive now... (will post pics later..)
 
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