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I called and didn't have to wait too long - about 5 minutes or so but was told that the orders for the new iPhones were not going to be processed until tomorrow so it won't be shipped until then so I won't be getting it tomorrow. He said Saturday or Monday would be more likely.

I pre-ordered 6/12 from AT&T online and it still shows my order as "In Progress". Tomorrow delivery does not look like it is happening...maybe it will change with nightly processing but I'm not holding my breath.

300 of these babies in SLi? 40,000,000 FPS!!!!! and only $6Million!!!! kind of sounds like a bargain...think they offer a $20 rebate with that too?

okay, i'm getting this narrowed down a bit. i think i'm going to get the ASRock 939 Dual mobo ($68), Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8Ghz ($140) or 3200+ Venice 2Ghz ($154), and start with 1 stick of 1GB memory ($85-ish). that puts me at about $295-$310 depending on which processor. i'm thinking...

yeah, i found the 939 mobos with agp support shortly after i posted my question... i think i looked at that ASRock board too. that may be the best bet for me as far as future upgrades are concerned.

i have a question about a socket 939 board...they don't appear to support AGP video cards, so would i also be in for the PCIe video card upgrade at that point too? i'm kind of leaning toward a socket 754, getting maybe a sempron/athlon 2800 or 3000 processor. maybe i'll get PCIe in the next...

i think my 5900SE may be some sort of stripped down version of your 5900XT, but not really sure. i got from eVGA. i am looking into what you suggested...that i just bite the bullet and raise the budget a little bit to keep that PCIe upgradability feature. and the i9300 i bought for my son...

both good ideas as well...i obviously have much more research to do. my current video card is a GeForce FX 5900 SE (128MB with AGP 8x/4x). i was planning on using it for the near future, but possibly upgrading it if i can put together a budget saving set-up. thanks for the suggestions.

okay...i shall hold off on the PowerLeap upgrade for now. it seemed to me like that was asking for trouble anyway. i'll check my local shops and/or the fs forums for an alternative used machine. thanks for the info kiwi and peleejosh...

i have an old 1Ghz Pentium III machine and have a need to upgrade it to get at least 1.2 Ghz processor speed (the minimum requirement for HL2). i have been looking into upgrading the motherboard and cpu, but that also involves getting new memory and likely OS...all of that was adding up fast...

If you keep your eyes open, you can get a pretty substantial discount on that price from Dell...such as the $750 off coupon. I bought roughly the same 9300 except less RAM (because that is cheaper to upgrade on your own) and the 7200 rpm 60GB HD. It retailed for roughly $2,450 and I got it for...

virtually every lottery has rules against playing all the numbers in lotto type games (pick 6, powerball, etc.) plus the sheer volume of playing all those numbers would be overwhelming. plus, it just isn't cost effective. i'm sure the lottery would let you play 3.5 million combinations at $1 a...

I did it...I ordered the 9300 with the 1.73 Ghz, 60 GB 7200, 512 MB ram, and 256 MB GeForce 6800. I checked newegg and crucial for memory. Newegg has the cheaper deal (obviously) but I will leave that up to my son to decide and purchase. I did use the $750 off coupon code from that link...

Heck, if i can get the $750 off deal, I'll upgrade the processor to the 1.86 Ghz, get the 80 GB 7200 hard drive, and then just upgrade the memory myself. The memory sticks are the same for laptops as they are for desktops? I just assumed they would be different (size-wise). I'll check it out...

I'm getting a laptop for my son for college. He will likely be using it mostly as a desktop replacement and doing some gaming (hopefully not too much). I'm looking at the Dell Inspiron 9300 and the HP zd8000. My budget is around 1,700-1,800 with a little bit of flexibility. The two setups...