My New Computer!

ThePigSheFlies, on Nov 25 2015 - 13:11, said:   lucky you.  mine was ordered in July.  It's been warrantied 3x since, and in total they have had it longer than I have in those 3½ months.   twice the SSD puked - first one lasted 3 weeks, the 2nd lasted two weeks.  after the second warrantied SSD, it was returned looking like it had been driven over by a forklift.  case dented in 3 separate areas. rear mount pedestal/foot broken off and dangling.a technician's socket floating around inside the case.   I powered it up, and noticed immediately that the voltage/temps were spiking erratically as high as 90ºC.  opened the case back up, and the giant CPU Cooler I had specified was visibly loose/wobbly - when I attempted to tighten it down, it seemed that they had locktighted the threads loose...  I sent video and pictures, and their CSR rep was sympathetic enough, and shocked enough that it passed QA, let alone supposedly had been "stress tested" in that state - but there was little he could do but offer to cover the shipping back.   I've had it back for less than a week now, and so far it's stable/running nice and cool.  so far.  I fly out Monday 11/30 for work for two weeks, and obviously hope I don't get a call from my wife and kids while I'm gone that it blew up again...   I had a total of 4 machines that needed to be specc'ed/replaced at home.  I've already pulled the plug on an Asus laptop instead of speccing out a slightly more robust machine from cyberpower, and I honestly can't see a reason why I'd ever order something from them again.   just a couple of the pictures I took from round #2...