Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
The Secure Area
While motherboards, optical drives and video cards are kept in the three stories of racks, the more expensive items like CPUs, memory and software are kept in a separate area that's fenced in. After all of the components from the picker area are placed into your tub, it rolls down a ramp towards the secure area:
Here we are standing at the third level of the picker assembly line looking down upon the secure area:
And after making our way down we find ourselves at one of the entrances to the secure area:
It may not look like much, but what's contained within is truly a tech enthusiast's candy store. Newegg keeps the processors segregated, all of the Intel CPUs were on our left, while all of the AMD CPUs were on our right.
While we were wandering around the CPU area we did manage to swipe a few processors for you. The best we could do was a set of five Athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPUs; we'll be giving one away each day from February 14, 2006 through February 17, 2006 and the final CPU will be given away on February 20th. To enter to win just head over here and drop your email in the box, good luck :)
CPUs weren't the only things plentiful in the secure area; there was also lots of memory on hand:
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Kuroyama - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Since no one was specific about location, seems the link to the contest on "The Secure Area" page wasn't fixed, although the entry later in the article is OK.bigboxes - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I had to use IE. I'd rather not have to use IE if at all possible.bldckstark - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
I clicked the link in the article, and the advertisement link on the left frame, and both worked just fine for me with FF. The ad opened a new window, the link changed pages. Also I haven't seen it mentioned yet guys, but I bet this article is already linked all over the net.Anand and crew, how much is traffic up (or down) over normal since you posted this article?
allometry - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
I would check your FF install. I'm using 1.5 and had no issues signing up...Marlin1975 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Sorry but what is that based off of??? I have used both for a LONG time between items that were basic small to large items such as engine heads I have ported or crankshafts and can say Fed-Ex ground has never been a problem for me or anybody else i know that ships a good deal. Even in the anandtech forums most swear by Fed-Ex ground way before UPS.
Also if Fed-Ex ground is the same price as UPS ground then why does Newegg not offer Fed-Ex ground?
superkdogg - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
If UPS ground is better, can somebody tell them that my laptop ram that I ordered two weeks ago(!) should be here by now. Not only did the shipment originate in New Jersey and miss Wisconsin instead landing in Phoenix (already late at this point), it was then rescheduled for delivery another 6 days later(!!).So far it's been 14 days (counting weekends, so a little slack there). This wouldn't be so bad, but that I'm off work after some surgery and can't sit up long enough to use my desktop. So I'm stuck struggling with my new laptop that I got cheap since it has only 256 MB of ram. Try to play any game with integrated graphics and 256 MB using XP (Home in my case) - ain't pretty. Oh well, allegedly my additional 1 MB is coming sometime soon (unless it inexplicably ends up in Nova Scotia on its way back).
superkdogg - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Oops. Obviously 1 MB wouldn't make much difference. 1 GB would.Cygni - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Im with you, FedEx Ground blows UPS Ground away in my book. I always fork over the extra couple bones to get FedEx Ground when I blow paychecks on newegg (fairly regularly) after a couple "experiments" when Newegg switched to UPS... Boxes always come quicker, and in much better shape.I do like the OPTION of shipping with either, but for my dollar, im going with FedEx.
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Ditto. I'll choose FedEx Ground over UPS Ground anytime. They've been more gentle on my packages, I've gotten far better customer service too. I'll gladly pay a buck extra per package to get FedEx Ground over UPS Ground.bob661 - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Yeah, UPS Ground blows ass.