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Cablepro · 04-10-2001, 07:06 PM

I was shopping for an AVIA 1 gig chip...I icq'ed matt to ask if the OCZ had AVIA's and if I could request one specifically..

He said they did, but there was going to be a shipping delay, and said if I paypal'ed him $220, he would take care of the order and ship it out personally...I thought I was on the receiving end of a kind act, since I had done business with matt and ocz several times before...

I received the chip the very next day via Airborne Express from the address of the OCZ store...

I did nothing with the chip that day, because I was waiting for sandpaper to arrive, believe it or not...Matt icq'ed me and asked me if I had tried the chip...I told him I had not, and he urged me to try it out as soon as possible...I promised I would install it the next day...

Well, that next day, I also received my Duron that I had ordered from OCZ a week prior...so I installed the Duron, and booted up...WOW!...I got 1gig right off the bat with 1.75V...I was impressed with the chip...

So I shut down, pulled out the Duron, and with high hopes, installed the AVIA 1gig...it would not post...so I checked to make sure everything was seated properly...I got no post, nothing...

I contacted Matt, and he told me to inspect the chip...I took out a magnifying glass, and confirmed that the bridges were in perfect condition...the core looked good, but there was a tiny bit of white color along the edge of the top of the core...Matt immediately told me that I fried my chip due to thermal damage...

I was appalled...the chip had been turned on for about 3 seconds at a time, twice...once no beeps were heard, it was shut down...all the while, attached to my waterblock with water pumping through it kept at a temperature of 26C(I have an inline thermistor)...the Duron ran at 28C at 1000mhz fine with this same setup...

I told matt I was very disappointed, and he told me there was no way that he could pull $200 out of his pocket to replace a chip for me...I told him I was pissed because the day after I ordered that chip from him for $220, the OCZ listed a sale on AVIA chips for only $209...SURELY matt was privvy to that information prior to selling me that chip...after 15 minutes of reasoning with him, he agreed that he would get me a replacement chip somehow...I thanked him, and I agreed that "I owed him big", just to appease him, so that I could have a better chance of getting a replacement chip...

I asked him where I should send this chip back to, and he told me don't worry about it, just KEEP IT!!!...I couldn't believe it...he did a diagnosis over the phone for thermal damage, and did not even want to see the chip?? I had a sick feeling in my stomach at that moment that he must have known the chip was bad when he shipped it out....I mean, I have been talking with Matt for some time now, and I KNOW his ego...he always claimed that he could get chipped and damaged chips to run...why didn't he even want this one back??

well, some time went by, and I heard nothing...I icq'ed matt, and got no response...so today, I called OCZ, and guess who answered the phone? Matt...he says right away, "Hey, did you get my icq?", nope...I never got an icq from Matt...he claims that he got in trouble for trying to steal stuff from the store, and had a sit-down with his boss about it, and that it's not worth losing his job to try and get me a replacement chip...and that was that...I was at work, so I did not get into it with him...I know now that I will NEVER see a chip from Matt to replace the garbage he sent me...so I thought I'd warn those of you that have helped me so much with advice and troubleshooting in the past....BE WARNED!!!...

04-10-2001, 07:06 PM	#1
Cablepro Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Daytona Beach, FL USA Posts: 93	BEWARE!!..Ripped off by Matt from OCZ I was shopping for an AVIA 1 gig chip...I icq'ed matt to ask if the OCZ had AVIA's and if I could request one specifically.. He said they did, but there was going to be a shipping delay, and said if I paypal'ed him $220, he would take care of the order and ship it out personally...I thought I was on the receiving end of a kind act, since I had done business with matt and ocz several times before... I received the chip the very next day via Airborne Express from the address of the OCZ store... I did nothing with the chip that day, because I was waiting for sandpaper to arrive, believe it or not...Matt icq'ed me and asked me if I had tried the chip...I told him I had not, and he urged me to try it out as soon as possible...I promised I would install it the next day... Well, that next day, I also received my Duron that I had ordered from OCZ a week prior...so I installed the Duron, and booted up...WOW!...I got 1gig right off the bat with 1.75V...I was impressed with the chip... So I shut down, pulled out the Duron, and with high hopes, installed the AVIA 1gig...it would not post...so I checked to make sure everything was seated properly...I got no post, nothing... I contacted Matt, and he told me to inspect the chip...I took out a magnifying glass, and confirmed that the bridges were in perfect condition...the core looked good, but there was a tiny bit of white color along the edge of the top of the core...Matt immediately told me that I fried my chip due to thermal damage... I was appalled...the chip had been turned on for about 3 seconds at a time, twice...once no beeps were heard, it was shut down...all the while, attached to my waterblock with water pumping through it kept at a temperature of 26C(I have an inline thermistor)...the Duron ran at 28C at 1000mhz fine with this same setup... I told matt I was very disappointed, and he told me there was no way that he could pull $200 out of his pocket to replace a chip for me...I told him I was pissed because the day after I ordered that chip from him for $220, the OCZ listed a sale on AVIA chips for only $209...SURELY matt was privvy to that information prior to selling me that chip...after 15 minutes of reasoning with him, he agreed that he would get me a replacement chip somehow...I thanked him, and I agreed that "I owed him big", just to appease him, so that I could have a better chance of getting a replacement chip... I asked him where I should send this chip back to, and he told me don't worry about it, just KEEP IT!!!...I couldn't believe it...he did a diagnosis over the phone for thermal damage, and did not even want to see the chip?? I had a sick feeling in my stomach at that moment that he must have known the chip was bad when he shipped it out....I mean, I have been talking with Matt for some time now, and I KNOW his ego...he always claimed that he could get chipped and damaged chips to run...why didn't he even want this one back?? well, some time went by, and I heard nothing...I icq'ed matt, and got no response...so today, I called OCZ, and guess who answered the phone? Matt...he says right away, "Hey, did you get my icq?", nope...I never got an icq from Matt...he claims that he got in trouble for trying to steal stuff from the store, and had a sit-down with his boss about it, and that it's not worth losing his job to try and get me a replacement chip...and that was that...I was at work, so I did not get into it with him...I know now that I will NEVER see a chip from Matt to replace the garbage he sent me...so I thought I'd warn those of you that have helped me so much with advice and troubleshooting in the past....BE WARNED!!!...