Gone are the days when most major cities featured computer parts stores. Cavernous retail, big-box stores like Circuit City and Fry’s are rare these days. Instead, you must turn to the Internet to locate parts, especially highly specialized parts like power supplies and memory.
The variety of online stores is rich and the selection wide, but unlike at the brick-and-mortar stores, you must either pay for overnight shipping or wait until the part arrives.
Ensure that you review the refund-and-return policy. Some items, such as memory, might be returnable.
The warranty is also something you must check. A 90-day warranty is okay for electronics; if they fail, it happens quickly, so even a 30- days warranty is okay in some situations.
Tech support for replacement parts is limited to non-existent. Most of these places assume that you know what you’re doing when you
buy a loose hard drive or an expansion card.
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