When I was living in San Diego I took the plunge and built a computer fron mothing but parts bought from Fry's.
After I had the entire thing built and buttoned up I pressed the on button. It worked. When I went to load up the operating system I started to get all sorts of errors. After 3 hours of this I took the entire system back to Fry's with the recipts. I was thinking that since I had just bought the thing from Fry's that the tech desk guys could pull out the components (CPU, memory, hard drive, motherboard) and check them out for me so I could find out what was wrong with it.
The tech guys would not touch it. I offered to pay them, they said nope. I was pissed off at this point, so I said screw it and bought the same CPU, motherboard, memory and hard drive that I had just bought.
I took everything home and proceeded to troubleshoot my system with the other brand new parts I bought.
It ended up being a problem with the motherboard.
I waited a couple of days to return the good stuff and the bad motherboard.
I did a walk up to the return line and told them that I had a bad motherboard and that I wanted to return it. I was told that I had to send it back to the manufacturer as they didn't do returns on that motherboard.
Sheese.
I packed the bad motherboard up in the original packaging and returned everything as "stuff I didn't want". They didn't even blink, they accepted everything no questions asked.
Fry's has the nice prices, you just need to learn how to play the game there at Fry's.
Here are a couple of links for anti-Fry's pages:
On line Fry's work application:
[url]http://www.best.com/~braith/frys.htm[/url]
Daves, "experinces at Fry's" webpage:
[url]http://www.accesscom.com/~dave6592/frys.html[/url]