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June 13th, 2007
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| The time has come for Revenge of the Nerds!
 |  Warning! Mail-in-Rebate May Take 12-150 Weeks  My story begins nearly three years ago and concerns a company called Soyo. Newer enthusiasts aren't likely to recognize the name, but Soyo at one time churned out a line of motherboards, with their DRAGON series denoting the flagship models. One of the last boards to roll off the assembly line, Soyo's SY-P4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 v1.0 advertised itself as a 'Prescott-Ready' slice of silicon riding the highly popular (at the time) Intel i865PE chipset. Further enticing would-be builders, the board carried a budget friendly $75 price tag, and though it wouldn't seem the pot needed any more sweetening, Soyo upped the ante by offering $75 in mail-in-rebates, in essence making it a free motherboard. Who could resist, right? Certainly not I, along with hundreds of others, and perhaps the overwhelming popularity is why things ultimately turned sour. - Paul "One4yu2c" Lilly Read More...   | ||||||||||||||
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June 13th, 2007
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| Deus Sol Invictus
 | Re: Warning! Mail-in-Rebate May Take 12-150 Weeks Wow! I've had a good experience with Soyo products but never had a MIR experience with them. Nice to see you got your $75.00 I guess, though with the inflation they probably should have gave you more.   If there is a final hour, let's hope for a higher power. One by one, and two by two, I have ammo, what about you? | ||||||||||||||
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June 13th, 2007
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| Meow means woof in cat.
 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
Posts: 1,903
| Re: Warning! Mail-in-Rebate May Take 12-150 Weeks Nice blog post. Just a suggestion to take number 1 further, I feed all of mine through a type writer  Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD | ||||||||||||||
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June 13th, 2007
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Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rhode Island USA
Posts: 1,717
| Re: Warning! Mail-in-Rebate May Take 12-150 Weeks Soyo gave my mom a similar run around. Never did get that rebate Opteron 64 165--1.5GB DDR--ECS KA1 MVP(thanks HL!)--x1800GTO 256MB--Seagate 320GB SATA--Antec 550 Watt--Antec P180 | ||||||||||||||
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