And the price cuts reach Fry's!!

[AkumaX]

its an nvidia 6100 mobo with integrated video!

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[jvisaria]

linky no worky

 

[Kromis]

Yes, it works. You need Adobe Acrobat.

Oh, and AkumaX, the price cuts already reached Fry's on Monday! Welcome to 3 days ago!

 

[AMDBOY]

pretty cool. I paid about $80 more for the same combo at Fry's back in March.I felt I had to keep good on school grades promise to my son.Progress is good. I like faster , better , cheaper.Nice post. Fry's can always come up with something to get your interest(usually).

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Thanks OP, saves me from buying the paper tomorrow

I'll pass on the 3800 but good to see they're going for those combos. Not bad for the 300GB Seagate SATA for $99 no rebates though... I'll probably snatch one. (300GB = 7200.9..... I'm going to wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen before I buy a perpendicular recording hard drive, just to be safe.)

Moving to page 5, the $200 Velodyne subwoofer (VX-10) is $150 at Amazon, and the $299 Onkyo receiver (TX-SR504) is $276 at Amazon. Not such great deals there.

 

[Zebo]

I remember when Velodynes costed thousands..I think I paid $1800 for ULD18 back about 12 years ago.

Anyway I would suggest getting in on a MWAVE combo deal for $15 more and you don't have to do ECS or ViA

 

[videopho]

Is the ECS mobo (combo) PCI-E or AGP?

 

[Preyhunter]

Originally posted by: videopho
Is the ECS mobo (combo) PCI-E or AGP?

PCI-E

Link

 

[linjy2]

anyone know how much the price is on the invoice? I know its $199.98 but they will have one price for the cpu and one price for the motherboard.

maybe i'll find out when i drop by tomorrow. I like to buy the combo and return the motherboard if the price is comparable. if not i guess ill just order from the internet.

I was hoping the frys combo would be cheaper than $200.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Originally posted by: linjy2
anyone know how much the price is on the invoice? I know its $199.98 but they will have one price for the cpu and one price for the motherboard.

maybe i'll find out when i drop by tomorrow. I like to buy the combo and return the motherboard if the price is comparable. if not i guess ill just order from the internet.

I was hoping the frys combo would be cheaper than $200.

Actually (at my local Fry's, at least) they won't take back one part of the combo, not even for an even exchange. I tried to return the CPU once and they said that I had to return the motherboard with it since they came priced as a combo.

 

[LordGestle]

Last I checked you cannot return part of a combo. So the price for each item is kind of pointless.
On a side note one time I tried to price match the same combo, it was within the 15 day time frame, and they indicated I needed to return the entire combo and purchase a new combo to receive the price match. Needless to say it was not worth the 20$ to tear apart a perfectly working system just to take another chance to save that amount of money.

 

[MX2]

I love AMD

 

[Parasitic]

So far that's about the only thing Fry's has a price cut for. I went to Fry's today to get the price on something adjusted and happened to browse over to the components section. The 4200+ X2 is still like $249 or $269 for Socket 939 and $239 for AM2...as is with everything higher than that.


This was at Concord.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: LordGestle
Last I checked you cannot return part of a combo. So the price for each item is kind of pointless.
On a side note one time I tried to price match the same combo, it was within the 15 day time frame, and they indicated I needed to return the entire combo and purchase a new combo to receive the price match. Needless to say it was not worth the 20$ to tear apart a perfectly working system just to take another chance to save that amount of money.

I pricematched Fry's just last month on three combos. These were three, A64 3000+ retail boxed CPUs and the NForce3-A motherboards. I had bought three of them the week before for 99.99. The following week, it was on sale for 69.99. This was from two different Fry's and at both stores, all they did was match up the SKU #'s on the receipt and credited my CC for 30.00 for each combo. I have never heard of Fry's asking you to bring in the item you wanted to pricematch. That doesn't make sense. I have gotten dozens of Fry's low-price-guarantees from their own ads over the years and they never asked me to bring in the item. Very strange. I would have asked for the manager.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
So far that's about the only thing Fry's has a price cut for. I went to Fry's today to get the price on something adjusted and happened to browse over to the components section. The 4200+ X2 is still like $249 or $269 for Socket 939 and $239 for AM2...as is with everything higher than that.
This was at Concord.

That is the price cut for Fry's after this last Monday's AMD cuts. The price on that 939 4200+ X2 CPU before the price cut was 419.99. I built a X2 system for my cousin a few months back and he wanted the 4200+ X2. The cheapest I found was from Microcenter one weekend with they had a sale going on. I got it for around 380. At the time, Newegg was 400 and Fry's was 420 for that 4200+ X2. If you want that CPU cheaper, you have to go to one of the other guys above. If you want one with a motherboard, wait a bit and Fry's will have the 4200+ X2 with a motherboard for 200-210, ( it will be an ECS board no doubt), but it will be like it's free. Fry's prices on individual CPUs is never as good as Newegg, Monarch or ZZF.

 

[AkumaX]

^^^

 

[linjy2]

Originally posted by: LordGestle
Last I checked you cannot return part of a combo. So the price for each item is kind of pointless.
On a side note one time I tried to price match the same combo, it was within the 15 day time frame, and they indicated I needed to return the entire combo and purchase a new combo to receive the price match. Needless to say it was not worth the 20$ to tear apart a perfectly working system just to take another chance to save that amount of money.

didnt want to bump a dead deal to reply, but since its alive i will reply. its ymmv on the return i guess.

i can return the motherboards where i live. sometimes i even purchase the combo and walk back into the store and return the board. and for pricematching like others said, i just bring a reciept for pricematch, no repacking just for a pricematch.

but anyways. good deal for a cpu/board combo. although its am2. so new ram is a must for most.

 

[mellondust]

I wish there was a Fry's by me.

 

[MonkeyFaces]

Is this a better deal than purchasing a gigabyte m55 sli + x2 3800 am2? The combo at fry's should cost $200 with tax. If I purchased the gigabyte m55sli + x2 3800 online, it should cost about $260-270 with shipping and tax added. Is an extra$70 for sli, a number of sata ports that isn't a joke, not micro atx (meaning actually has a usable number of pci ports) and better software bundle (ecs boards don't come with system monitoring technology and temperatures displayed in speedfan are not what you see in the bios) worth it over the cheapie ecs board?

 

[htne]

I picked up this combo yesterday at Fry's. The motherboard is the ECS C51GM-M. You can find more information on the ECS website here:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/P...anID=0&DetailID=653&DetailName=Feature

The system seems to work fairly well, but the overclocking doesn't work. In the CMOS setup, you can choose a FSB from 200 to 300 in 1 mhz increments, but no matter what you choose, the system boots up and runs at a FSB of 200. The included CD does NOT contain all of the drivers that you need. And for some reason, this sucker seems to be running very hot. Both Speedfan and the BIOS say that it is idling about 50 degrees, and according to Speedfan, under full load it is bouncing between 65 and 70 degrees. Yes, I used Arctic Silver. I may have to pull this apart and see if the heat sink is really well seated against the cpu. If it is, then the temperature readings must be crazy.

 

[MonkeyFaces]

Can you see if the bios update will allow ocing?

 

[htne]

I have applied the latest BIOS from the ECS web site, and it did not help. One of the reviews for this motherboard at Newegg mentioned that the overclocking simply did not work. And I found a thread on groups.google.com wherein the poster had the same problem with very high reported cpu temperatures.

click here

 

[linjy2]

Originally posted by: htne
The system seems to work fairly well, but the overclocking doesn't work. In the CMOS setup, you can choose a FSB from 200 to 300 in 1 mhz increments, but no matter what you choose, the system boots up and runs at a FSB of 200.

Those cheap combo ecs board never overclocks in the bios well. Try overclocking by changing the jumpers on the board if can. I done it before on previous ecs boards and works perfectly.

 

[ICAREFORYOUU]

my friend works there so i can get stuff cheaper.. ;]

 

[MonkeyFaces]

Doesn't your friend have to buy it for you using his employee discount? I think if he is found using it excessively, he might have his discount revoked. Also, I highly doubt they can give you discounts on the pre cpu sales form because fry's has a whole army of supervisors checking each sale before they can continue.