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One thing Fry's is rarely good at is computer cases and power supplies. I always went to Geeks for that. I checked Newegg for years when I bought stuff, and only bought something once from them, a flash drive that I regretted getting when I saw it on Fry's for less a week later. Whatever I wanted from Newegg was always lower on Tiger Direct, Geeks, Meritline or Fry's. Usually a lot less.

CPUs and motherboards are best on Amazon unless you can find a deal on a combo at TigerDirect or in a Fry's ad. Fry's combo deals are usually for AMD stuff, they don't discount the Intel cpus very often.

Hard drives are best at Fry's. Geeks had some good deals, too, but their best prices were usually on refurbished drives, and you take your chances with those.

Anyway, name an item, and I can tell you which place I would go first for the best deal on it. Sad to see one of my resources go bye-bye.

I used to go to Fry's quite a bit during My many years in Silicon Valley. I was one of their first customers when they opened their very first store back in the day, just off of Lawrence Expressway and 101 back when Computer Shopper and NCR were still big. There is no Fry's up here, however, and other online retailers seemed to be able to beat their offerings if one looked about enough.

Ableshoppers dot com used to be a great resource for finding better sales, but their website seems to have been unmaintained for a couple of years now and no equivalent site has yet appeared. TigerDirect was barely tolerable, but as I stated previously paying for shipping all the way from Florida to NorCal put a serious crimp on the attractiveness of their offerings.

Newegg still has the best prices on cases and quite a few other things if you are willing to wait for their sales. Also, on some items taking a chance on the Mail In Rebate which takes over eight weeks to process. I can post a screencap of their last great case offerings (last month's) if anyone is interested (and if JimRob does not mind the bandwidth usage) if you just have some patience and keep an eye on their sales offerings. Free shipping and about 99% of the orders I place arrive within 48 hours -I assume that is because I live in Cali. Other sites I could name also have great prices on electronics-related items but none come close to that, I have found.

Again: watch the sales flyers. You might be surprised.