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I used to work at Microcenter back in like 2014. Made a lot of money in the build your own department!

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Their motherboard cpu deal is hard to beat. I've used it for several builds.

I still use a Cooler Master HAF 912 case from there too. I love that beast of a case. I run it with the side panel off so I can see all my pretty LEDs. Lol

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Lol, I still have and use that same case at home. It's a horrendously ugly case by today's standards, but it's got good airflow and it has housed three builds over its time. Mine has the glass side panel, though.

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I thought about using a Dremel to cut out and create my own custom side panel. In the end I took the easy route and just left it off. I don't have pets or small children, I'm not worried about components being damaged.

It is ugly, but it is freaken cavernously huge and far too functional for me to cast aside. Glad to hear I'm not the only person keeping one in use.

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nice nice! the best deal was working there. our employee discount was "cost+5%". low margin items like PCs, laptops and mobos/cpus didn't do much. but high margin items like cables, recordable media any of the "general merch" was incredible. high-end HDMI cables that retail for $20 would get discounted to a dollar or two.

if it wasn't for a house fire I'd still have my PC I built there. when the 4770k was the flagship CPU.

oh and Intel would sell us i7 CPUs for like $100 when we did their training course

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That's pretty sweet, but not the fire, that sucks.

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high-end HDMI cables that retail for $20 would get discounted to a dollar or two.

How do they keep you from just selling that shit on Amzon?