aopen nforce3 150 board, $29.99 for st. pats, $39.99 other days

[hans007]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=MK89-L-J&cat=MBB


seems like a great deal at compgeeks.


should go well for a budget sempron or something. socket 754, 2 dimms, 3 pci, 1 agp, onboard audio and gigibit ethernet .


according tot he inquirer, newegg has it for $48 + shipping.


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18253

it says it doesnt have voltage tweaks, but does have 1mhz increments for fsb.

 

[CrackRabbit]

thats sweet. I think i may get one of those

 

[bigfil]

now thats a hot price

 

[Venomous]

Problem with this board is, if you run above 250 mhz fsb, the usb ports will burn out. Ive gone through 3 of them up until jan.

 

[Triggerhappy007]

Originally posted by: Venomous
Problem with this board is, if you run above 250 mhz fsb, the usb ports will burn out. Ive gone through 3 of them up until jan.

3 already, didn't you learn your lesson yet? 😉

Nice price, but too bad it's mATX.

 

[AdamsJabbar]

Originally posted by: Venomous
Problem with this board is, if you run above 250 mhz fsb, the usb ports will burn out. Ive gone through 3 of them up until jan.

Problem with overclocking is you're running the board out of spec. This is why manufacturers don't support a motherboard that's been overclocked.

For a board run according to specs, this is a great deal. Nice find OP.

 

[TechZen]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MK89-L-J

Now $29.99 until 11:59PT 50 left as of this posting, but they may update the quantity(they sometimes do that).

 

[hans007]

wow at that ridiculously low price, its so tempting to buy .... so tempting but i know its just more junk in my room.

 

[Samus]

Typically any motherboard in this pricerange people are not buying to overclock, they're buying it to upgrade their mom's pos PII

 

[k1114]

VERY tempting, i've been wanting to go with a better board for my HTPC (current one allows no sleep of any kind, and is socket A) and I think this might be tempting enough...

 

[Smokin Gunn]

:thumbsup: Nice Find

 

[KenSr]

🙂 Thanks OP,
I ordered one plus a few other things to combine shipping.

 

[k1114]

I'm in, just couldn't resist!

 

[JafCo]

Originally posted by: KenSr
🙂 Thanks OP,
I ordered one plus a few other things to combine shipping.

Haven't you found that there's little to no savings from newegg when "combining shipping"? Unless you're going for upgraded shipping (2-day or overnight), I've found that they just add their special "FedEx Saver" rates together for each item you buy.

So, for example, $4.33 might be a bargain for shipping if you just get one item, but if you get 5 small items and they all have $3.99 to $4.99 shipping, you could end up overpaying for delivery.

 

[uwannawhat]

I've got this board in an HTPC I built last year. It does have one burnt out USB header..Hmmm.

I grabbed another one! Thanks for the heads~up hans007.

Anyone else having problems with the geeks site not loading pages fully?

Nice deal! 🙂

 

[pxc]

Bought 2, now to wait for cheap S754 Sempron 3100+ CPUs.

 

[stockjock]

It says $39.99 now 🙁

 

[uwannawhat]

Originally posted by: stockjock
It says $39.99 now 🙁

You have to go through the St. Patty's Day Special Link to see the $29.99 price. 😉

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Venomous
Problem with this board is, if you run above 250 mhz fsb, the usb ports will burn out. Ive gone through 3 of them up until jan.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me - what does the FSB freq have to do with the amount of current that your USB peripherals draw? I would take a look at what you are plugging into those ports, and consider using an external, self-powered USB hub for those devices instead.

If you are suggesting that the USB controller in the chipset itself is burning up, due to too-high FSB freq, that doesn't make sense either. If it were overheating enough to cause damage, you would likely see issues with other southbridge-connected peripherals too, including the normal PCI bus.

I think that you either simply overloaded the USB ports, or static-zapped them myself.

 

[jwi114]

Originally posted by: TechZen
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MK89-L-J

Now $29.99 until 11:59PT 50 left as of this posting, but they may update the quantity(they sometimes do that).

They may have updated there quaantity.Im almost postive i looked at it and it said one left then when i go back to it now says 38.

 

[Kinju]

Thanks OP great price

 

[VooDooAddict]

Thanks OP!

 

[hans007]

seems there are like 8 more, get them while they are hot. i am not getting one, had to pullmyself away a few times now.

 

[k1114]

Just got notice that it was shipped!

They are sold out, although I imagine they will "restock" again. They seem to have plenty of these (it's still "in stock" for $39.99) and they just need to allocate more for the sale price.

 

[KenSr]

Originally posted by: JafCo

Originally posted by: KenSr
🙂 Thanks OP,
I ordered one plus a few other things to combine shipping.

Haven't you found that there's little to no savings from newegg when "combining shipping"? Unless you're going for upgraded shipping (2-day or overnight), I've found that they just add their special "FedEx Saver" rates together for each item you buy.

So, for example, $4.33 might be a bargain for shipping if you just get one item, but if you get 5 small items and they all have $3.99 to $4.99 shipping, you could end up overpaying for delivery.

:roll: :laugh: Who said that I ordered from Newegg.
I ordered from Geeks and got the MB, 2 floppy drives, 4 modems, and 300 feet of Cat5 cable for $11 shipping, The shipping on the MB alone would have been $8. 😎 😉