1.6GHZ P4 and MSI 645 MB $179 Fry's in S. Cal

[farstar]

1.6 GHZ Pentium 4
MSI 645 Ultra 333 Motherboard
Sis 645 chipset w/ socket 478
1 AGP 4X
5 PCI
1 CNR
3 DIMM PC2100/PC2400/PC2700 DDR
UDMA/133 support

$179

Is this a good MB??
Is this a good price??

Looks pretty hot to me, nice upgrade for the old celeron 600🙂

 

[TranceNation]

is this northwood chip?

 

[AkumaX]

if it was the northwood, it would be, but i highly doubt it :\

 

[kerokeroppi82]

still a good deal though

 

[z0ner]

A Northwood would be a guaranteed 2.1GHz overclock. That would be a smoking deal!

 

[YaKuZa]

Can somebody confirm whether or not this is for the the Northwood or not? Thanks.

 

[bender151]

Last Friday Fry's in the Bay Area had a one day sale for a similar combo which I ended up buying.

P4 1.6 ghz
VIA P4XB-S M/B

The P4 is NOT a Northwood. It is a bare cpu, no heatsink or fan. I would have preferred a Northwood, but at $159 (the one day sale price), this is still a good deal. I'm still deciding whether or not I should keep this as the price of P4's should be dropping soon.

I doubt I'm going to be doing any OC'ing, but how is this board overall? Also, how low are the prices supposed to drop for P4's? Could I conceivably get this package for much less if i just wait a little bit?

EDIT:
farstar, the funny thing is that I also bought this combo to upgrade my celeron 600.

 

[hans007]

williamette is still in production. its definitely not gonna be a northwood

 

[bender151]

Fry's always seems to be having cpu/mb deals, for $179 do they offer a faster speed Athlon combo? That is if you'd be willing to buy an Athlon.

 

[MrCodeDude]

<< Fry's always seems to be having cpu/mb deals, for $179 do they offer a faster speed Athlon combo? That is if you'd be willing to buy an Athlon. >>


I got my Athlon XP 1800+ with ECS K7S5A motherboard for $179 sometime in February.. It was on sale for $159 on their one day sale, but now it's back at $179 again. And damn all you Intel fanboys.
-- mrcodedude

 

[farstar]

I think I will hold off and see where the prices go when Intel drops the P4 price next month. P4 pricedrops will put pressure on Athlon prices and I'm not against buying AMD. I picked up the Compaq laptop with the 900 MHZ Duron that Fry's had for $799 two months ago and my wife loves it.