When purchasing parts for a homebuild system do you honestly believe the user reviews for components on Newegg.com? Also what about the awards they give certain items?

Put very little faith in the reviews from Newegg, many of the people who describe their technical level as high, really mean that they can find the power switch 3 times out of 5 (or they can tell the difference between their computer and a microwave).

I've ordered thousands of dollars of items from newegg, all the pricing is great + free shipping on lots of items and no tax for my state.

One time i had a bad DVI cable - they just refunded it because it was like 10 bucks total ( instead of me having to pay to ship it back )

Sent a few items back. The return policy is clearly stated , easy to find . There is no shady behind the scenes crap.

and the other users are correct about user reviews. Some people order the wrong parts and get mad when they don't work.
I've researched all the computer parts here at tomshardware forums before I bought my parts to build a computer.
Lots of very knowledgeable people on this site !

and of course if an item has like 500 reviews and 90% of them are 5 stars , chances are it's a great item.

What can I say I like newegg. Still I have to agree that the reviews are not always helpful. If a product has alot of one or two egg reviews though you should take a look at them to see if any of those complaints are valid. One nice feature of new egg is that when you click to read all the reviews you can look at just the ones that have a certain egg rating. Sometimes the ones with 5 eggs are helpful while those with 4 eggs are usually someone just being a whiny little ^&*@ about something. Anyway the reviews can give you a rough idea but you should do more research afterwords, and of course once you narrow down your selection look through the tomshardware forums ^_^.

I'm an old computer tech and I leave Positive feedback 99% of the time.
I've only left negative feed back on 3 items due to: 1 item being defective in design, 1 retail shrink wrapped motherboard missing the driver CD and back panel template and 1 item which was nothing but an over hyped piece of junk. But to to be honest, to call it a piece of junk is an understatement, What it really was, was hours and days of nothing but ****.
When I seen the "Recommend by _____" on the box, I should have shipped it back.
I know that next time when I see that phrase on the box, I won't hesitate for 1 minute to ship it back.

I think newegg needs to make their website idiot proof so these retarded dumb asses can't order or leave feedback.