Anandtech awards on Newegg

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Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

You post on here without reading the front page? That review went up weeks ago.

 

[schneiderguy]

Newegg has HardOCP awards sometimes also.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Holy cow!

You can get an entire system for that!

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Seriously. I miss the days when $120-150 could get you something really high-end on the motherboard scale.

With 1Tb hard drives under $100, Bluray drives under $100, SATA DVDRWs at about 20 bucks and DDR2 for $2.50/Gb, I wouldn't be complaining. 😛

You can get plenty of high-end stuff without spending a lot..remember the ill-fated Voodoo5 6000 with an estimated retail price of $600? Things haven't really changed for the worse, IMHO...

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

That's the going rate for a good X58 mobo 😛 It's the cost of being on the cutting edge. You don't have to spend that much. $100-$150 still buys you a real nice LGA775 board.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Seriously. I miss the days when $120-150 could get you something really high-end on the motherboard scale.

Well, that does still hold true. But everything Core i7 right now is very expensive. All brand new tech. Does seem to happen that every new generation of technology is absurdly expensive for a little while, then prices start dropping toward the realistic.

Only thing that stopped me from upgrading to i7 recently. Those costs, so not worth it at this point.

But Core i7, X58 chipset and fastest lanes everywhere on a mobo, DDR3... all of it is so new its just insanely priced.
DDR3 is that way right now. Costs are super high.

And the high costs are why I continue to plug along with my socket 478 P4 AGP rig...

maybe some day I'll dump another $1000 into an upgrade...maybe.

If you're waiting for new tech that comes out to be super cheap, you'll be waiting an extremely long time. You're always going to pay a premium for new stuff.

OMG! NOOOO!

Or, could it be that I got tired of upgrading every time a new platform came out, just to have the latest-greatest, bestest, fastest?

Yeah, I COULD have upgraded a couple of years ago to the dual-core/quad-core processors and PCI-E video card(s), but within 2 years, it'd be obsolete anyway.
(hell, I still use a 4 year old motorola flip-phone that was probably 2 year old technology when AT&T "gave" it to me.

I just got tired of playing the game. I now wait until there are enough sizeable improvements to justify the expense...and IMO, there still haven't been $1000 worth of improvements.

I dunno, over P4 and the AMD AthlonXP series, I definitely saw the Core2 series as a much needed improvement, worth the rebuild cost (less than $1000 for sure).
From P4/AthlonXP and DDR, AGP, to C2D with great overclock potential (from 2.2ghz to 3.2 easily), DDR2, PCIe. Gaming, video conversions, everything so much faster. It really was one of the last upgrades I could really justify. I had to splurge a few days ago, after over a year and a half with no upgrades, and get the nVidia GTX 285. Always a gamer. 🙂

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: destrekor

I dunno, over P4 and the AMD AthlonXP series, I definitely saw the Core2 series as a much needed improvement, worth the rebuild cost (less than $1000 for sure).
From P4/AthlonXP and DDR, AGP, to C2D with great overclock potential (from 2.2ghz to 3.2 easily), DDR2, PCIe. Gaming, video conversions, everything so much faster. It really was one of the last upgrades I could really justify. I had to splurge a few days ago, after over a year and a half with no upgrades, and get the nVidia GTX 285. Always a gamer. 🙂

Yes, the processor upgrade may have been less than $1000, but in my case, it'd require new processor, new mobo, new RAM, and a new video card...it adds up pretty fast.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Yes, the processor upgrade may have been less than $1000, but in my case, it'd require new processor, new mobo, new RAM, and a new video card...it adds up pretty fast.

fry's combo deals. got an 8000 series quad with mobo for under $200. a reputable $50 power supply will run it. 4 Gb of ddr2 is $50. decent video card is $100.

the real kicker is windows.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Yes, the processor upgrade may have been less than $1000, but in my case, it'd require new processor, new mobo, new RAM, and a new video card...it adds up pretty fast.

fry's combo deals. got an 8000 series quad with mobo for under $200. a reputable $50 power supply will run it. 4 Gb of ddr2 is $50. decent video card is $100.

the real kicker is windows.

Fry's combo? Lemme guess...ECS mobo?

No thanks.

As for PSU, I think my Corsair HX620 will handle just about any upgrade I choose to make.

I keep forgetting that DDR2 is now dirt cheap. The last time I bought DDR1, I think I paid about $100/gig...and it was a GOOD price at the time.. :roll:

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Holy cow!

You can get an entire system for that!

Oh really, on what planet??? My VERY modest up grade last week cost $664 at newegg.
EVGA 750i mobo $150
EVGA gtx 260 vid $220
e8400 cpu $165
4gig pc8500 mem. $ 65
HSF $ 64
Thank goodness I did not need a PSU, sound card, speakers, monitor, or case, to build an "entire system". I do this once every 5, or 6 years weather I need to or not, lol.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Fry's combo? Lemme guess...ECS mobo?

No thanks.

i've not had an issue with the ECS boards i've had. in fact, i've had more issues with asus than with ECS.

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Holy cow!

You can get an entire system for that!

Oh really, on what planet??? My VERY modest up grade last week cost $664 at newegg.
EVGA 750i mobo $150
EVGA gtx 260 vid $220
e8400 cpu $165
4gig pc8500 mem. $ 65
HSF $ 64
Thank goodness I did not need a PSU, sound card, speakers, monitor, or case, to build an "entire system". I do this once every 5, or 6 years weather I need to or not, lol.

Dell Vostro for $500, sell the monitor for $200. No joke. Dell can do it much cheaper than you can. Integrated video and slower processor, and maybe only 3GB of RAM.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Fry's combo? Lemme guess...ECS mobo?

No thanks.

i've not had an issue with the ECS boards i've had. in fact, i've had more issues with asus than with ECS.

You've done better than me. I've had 2. One DOA out of the box...the other fried the AGP slot...and my 6800 GT.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Baked
$300 for a mobo. You must be joking.

Holy cow!

You can get an entire system for that!

Oh really, on what planet??? My VERY modest up grade last week cost $664 at newegg.
EVGA 750i mobo $150
EVGA gtx 260 vid $220
e8400 cpu $165
4gig pc8500 mem. $ 65
HSF $ 64
Thank goodness I did not need a PSU, sound card, speakers, monitor, or case, to build an "entire system". I do this once every 5, or 6 years weather I need to or not, lol.

ECS board- $24.99
E5200 - $64.99
4Gb DDR2 - $9.99
mATX case/PS - $30.00
1Tb HD - $100
DVDRW - $22

Just gotta know where to look. 😀

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I just got tired of playing the game. I now wait until there are enough sizeable improvements to justify the expense...and IMO, there still haven't been $1000 worth of improvements.

There are $500 laptops that would blow your P4 outta the water performance-wise. If your machine serves you well, count your blessings because your computing-needs seem mighty modest.

🙂

make that $200

 

[waffleironhead]

anandtech does reviews? 😕😀

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
anandtech does reviews? 😕😀

yes! in fact, anandtech, has a www.anandtech as well as a forums.anandtech!

who knew?

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
anandtech does reviews? 😕😀

yes! in fact, anandtech, has a www.anandtech as well as a forums.anandtech!

who knew?

It boggles the mind... 😉