Just a bit of useless trivia: the name "Bai-Nao-Hui", while literally means "Hundred-Brain-Assembly" as you pointed out, is probably a play on the name "Bai-Lao-Hui". "Bai-Lao-Hui" is the name for "Broadway", as rendered using Chinese pronouciations.

"Bai-Lao-Hui" and "Bai-Nao-Hui" are Putonghua (Mandarin) pronounciations. If you go to the South of China (eg. Guangzhou and especially Hong Kong), you will find most of the Cantonese speakers pronoucing the two names in Cantonese identically ("Baak-Lo-Wui"), even though "Bai-Nao-Hui" is in fact "Baak-No-Wui" in Cantonese. The Cantonese speaking people are renowned for pronoucing most of their Ns as Ls, eg. pronoucing 'No' (as in "a brain") as 'Lo' (as in "old"). I suspect there is some Cantonese (read Hong Kong) influence in the naming of the joint...

Hi, 

I think you went to the wrong place in Beijing to buy hardware. You should know that Zhongguancun in North-west Beijing (close to Beijing University) is probably the best place to go hardware shopping in Beijing.

You pay about 10% less than in Buynow. I was building some computers for my dad, ordered the stuff over the phone and got it delivered next morning. 

A few days after, I drove to Zhongguancun and got myself a new PSP with modded 3.52 firmware, while some kid was playing some stupid cooking game on Wii...

The 22 inch monitor was just 150 pounds and actually they do have 8800 Ultras, you just went to wrong place or they are out of stock.

Frozenace is right about Zhongguancun. Beside the lower prices, the scale of the place is also ... a gazillion times bigger.

There are 5 large commercial buildings, one next to another, that sell the goods. The vendors occupy about 5 or 6 floors in each of those buildings, and most vendors take up a hole that's about 1.5 m wide.

Just like Frozenace said, the prices are low, as the competition is extreme.