- Joined
- May 25, 2003
- Location
- Irving, Tx
I don't know if that many peopel on here have gotten to experience the in store Fry's sales staff. I have never had a question answered there that I thought seemed like the guy was 100% sure. Here are a few geat moments from my trip to pick up a PSU.
An older gentleman is getting assistance picking out parts to build a computer. First thing they look at are the cases. The salesman points out a few to him and he decides that the Antec w/400 watt PSU for $129 is popular. The man points out that there is also a generic case w/ generic 400 watt PSU for $109 and that he could save $20. The salesman tells him that the Antec is just the name brand case and that the PSU's are exactly the same and 99% of the time made by the same manufacuter and just rebadged.
So this caught my attention and I just had to hear what the salesman had in line for the guy because motherboards and CPU's are the next aisle over.
The guy tells him that he is going to be running CAD mostly and that he thinks he needs something pretty powerful. The salesman tells him that he can go with AMD or Intel. He asks what the diff is and the salesman says there is no diff that they run at the same speeds but AMD is cheaper because they produce value chips and sell in mass quantities to get the prices down. He decides to go with Intel because his friend says he thinks Intels are "more powerful for business and less for gaming".
Motherboard time! So the guy says he needs a pretty good board because he doesn't ever want it to crash. The salesman immediately walks over to the most expensive board on the wall for $250. I'm not sure what it was but it is the Asus with the heatpipes all over. The salesman said that it was the best board they had but it wasn't what he wanted because it didn't have onboard video. Then they had some discussion about whether CAD needed a good video card and the salesman thought that any onboard video would be more than sufficient because some of them have "dual monitor outputs".
The salesman tells him that they have a few brands of boards. Asus, Abit, Intel, and "everything else". So he asks what the diffs are and the salesman says that Asus and Abit are made for gaming, Intel is for business, and everything else is for people don't understand the difference and don't want to pay for "quality".
Next they head over to the memory and the salesman pulls out his sheet and finds the fastest memory at the best price. He immediately says that 1gb is plenty and they have a great deal on it. He tells him that the twinx or something is the best memory out and that is what he should go with because it is good and it has a mail in rebate. The guy decides that the salesman can't be wrong because he has given such good advice so far.
So to wrap it up the guy tells him that he needs and HD and the salesman points out that since this will be a CAD computer he needs dual SATA so he can run RAID. This poor guy has no idea what any of these pieces are but he just agrees and grabs 2.
So the guy tells him that it is all done and that he should run Vista because it is so much better and faster than XP and all he needs to do is pick out a DVD burner.
Poor guy....
Last time I was there I was asking what cores the AMD chips had and the guy said that they were all dual cores and that's it. I asked what the names were and he said "dual core". I threw out a few examples and he said that AMD didn't do core names that only Intel used to do that a long time ago with the P4 line.
An older gentleman is getting assistance picking out parts to build a computer. First thing they look at are the cases. The salesman points out a few to him and he decides that the Antec w/400 watt PSU for $129 is popular. The man points out that there is also a generic case w/ generic 400 watt PSU for $109 and that he could save $20. The salesman tells him that the Antec is just the name brand case and that the PSU's are exactly the same and 99% of the time made by the same manufacuter and just rebadged.
So this caught my attention and I just had to hear what the salesman had in line for the guy because motherboards and CPU's are the next aisle over.
The guy tells him that he is going to be running CAD mostly and that he thinks he needs something pretty powerful. The salesman tells him that he can go with AMD or Intel. He asks what the diff is and the salesman says there is no diff that they run at the same speeds but AMD is cheaper because they produce value chips and sell in mass quantities to get the prices down. He decides to go with Intel because his friend says he thinks Intels are "more powerful for business and less for gaming".
Motherboard time! So the guy says he needs a pretty good board because he doesn't ever want it to crash. The salesman immediately walks over to the most expensive board on the wall for $250. I'm not sure what it was but it is the Asus with the heatpipes all over. The salesman said that it was the best board they had but it wasn't what he wanted because it didn't have onboard video. Then they had some discussion about whether CAD needed a good video card and the salesman thought that any onboard video would be more than sufficient because some of them have "dual monitor outputs".
The salesman tells him that they have a few brands of boards. Asus, Abit, Intel, and "everything else". So he asks what the diffs are and the salesman says that Asus and Abit are made for gaming, Intel is for business, and everything else is for people don't understand the difference and don't want to pay for "quality".
Next they head over to the memory and the salesman pulls out his sheet and finds the fastest memory at the best price. He immediately says that 1gb is plenty and they have a great deal on it. He tells him that the twinx or something is the best memory out and that is what he should go with because it is good and it has a mail in rebate. The guy decides that the salesman can't be wrong because he has given such good advice so far.
So to wrap it up the guy tells him that he needs and HD and the salesman points out that since this will be a CAD computer he needs dual SATA so he can run RAID. This poor guy has no idea what any of these pieces are but he just agrees and grabs 2.
So the guy tells him that it is all done and that he should run Vista because it is so much better and faster than XP and all he needs to do is pick out a DVD burner.
Poor guy....
Last time I was there I was asking what cores the AMD chips had and the guy said that they were all dual cores and that's it. I asked what the names were and he said "dual core". I threw out a few examples and he said that AMD didn't do core names that only Intel used to do that a long time ago with the P4 line.
