One site out of many sites. I checked the Asus website and it never said anything about the retention bracet coming with the board. Why would I even think to look at the CPU manufactures website?
Also the mother board comming with it is for a motherboard. Not a CPU cooler. I have a 775 motheboard that came with a Cooler and the Sata cables and some fans and little heatsinks. Most motherboards do not come with that and this one did.
I even spoke with Asus and they told me that some came with the motherboard and some did not. Asus said that they only sell stuff like brackets to manufactures of computers and stores they do not sell stuff to customers.
They said they would only send me the part if it was for warranty which the warranty was gone the day I opened up and fixed the Pavillion a250n myself.
I asked Asus this after this happened. But before if I did not even know such info was availaible how can I be expected to know? How can I be blamed for not knowing when it is not exactly to much info on the subject. You could find it since you knew what you were looking for I did not so it is not very fair to expect me too have found that info out.
Part of my research was to look at the manufacturer website in this case it was Scythe. Remember I have experince with newer architecture. As it turns out I could have bought a socket 478 motherboard that came with the plastic part and the cooler for 50 bucks. Having to buy a retention bracket would be 20 bucks and that is the cheapest I could find.
Since not many computer stores in Canada sell computer parts online. The ones in the states that do gouge Canadians for shipping. They would say 35 bucks to 50 bucks for shipping a small plastic piece without the backplate.
Even the Canadian online PC stores charge about 10 bucks for shipping. Then I have to pay tax on top of it so it would be about 20 to 25 dollars. I selected this katana 2 for the price. Some of the more expensive ones I was looking at did have the part but it was 80 dollars so I opted for this one. Turns out I should have bought the 80 dollar one. Since this one by the time I buy the retention bracket is almost the same price as the more expensive one.
The more expensive one has a better way to attach the fan for one thing. It did not have a clamp fitting like this one does. Which I would have been fine with for the cheaper price. Now I am not to happy with it and wish I had not bought it after this trouble.
It boils down too I am tired of being expected to know everything and it is always called my fault. I buy new software and it is glitchy and won't work they call it my fault. I buy a pavillion a250n that comes out of the box damaged and I get blamed saying the thing had issues from me abusing it.
Which was not the case so I took a major loss with the computer. Now that purchase is still coming back to haunt me. Now it looks like if I have to buy that part I am better off buying a new motherboard and cutting my losses to get rid of every last bit of that a250n before it causes me anymore grief.
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