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2021-02-04
5/5
Smaller company, but an excellent product.
"Spent many weeks searching for the parts for a new all around build. At this time the list I made had a few parts that were only available by paying outrageous scalper prices. I've built my own boxes for 20 years, but because of the shortage of parts during this Scamdemic I searched computer builders and in the process of all the known builders found eCollege Computers. I've never heard of them, but after pricing my build on all of the other builder sites; eCollege came up the lowest price by a few hundred dollars.
I used the build your AMD basic building sheet and they had in stock every part, but the 6800 video card. I decided to go the route of the RTX 3070 instead. I made my order and the very next day I get an email that the water cooling CPU system wouldn't fit the case I chose with having the CD/DVD drive included and Mike suggested a different case which cost somewhat more than the case I chose. They swallowed the increase on this case which is not what I expected!
It was built, tested and shipped in 3 days and received it in 2 more days. They did an outstanding job tuning the system; much better than I would I'm sure as under CPUIDZ ID stress test shows all cores (AMD 7 5800x) running at 4.853 GHz. That's over the 4.7 GHz that AMD says it goes to, so I must of got lucky and got a good bin. I didn't even purchase the tuning package available, but they tuned it well.
All I can tell you is that to get the parts I wanted would've took at least a month or I'd need to pay the scalpers their price to get the parts. The price between eCollege and the other builders was between 300 and 500 dollars less with shipping free! If I would've went ahead and bought the parts myself from 3-4 different vendors I would've payed over 500 dollars more plus having to build it myself, so in reality it cost me nothing to have them build it.
Communication between Mike and I was excellent. Being a retired business owner myself I can tell you this company is an upstanding entity and has great business practices. Thanks for everything eCollege! Best Wishes: Bruce"
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