Athlon x2 4800 and ECS board combo at Fry's LA B&M $100

[PieIsAwesome]

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Saw this in the LA ad, but not on the Fry's ad site.
Think it comes with retail CPU?

 

[cubeless]

yes. good cheap combo... will oc to 2.75 generally...

 

[ranmaniac]

I saw the same ad for the Houston area Fry's.

 

[Changoboy]

Damn it to hell! No Fry's in Fresno. Why? Why? Why?

 

[jiffer]

In my area, the combo comes with a tray/OEM Brisbane processor with a one year warranty from Fry's.

You never know with Fry's, though. Last summer, they had a combo with a retail box 4800+ and an ECS GEFORCE6100SM-M for $109.99. I wonder if we'll see similar combos for $88.99 (a common price for their combos) in the next couple of months?

 

[DefDC]

I accidentally broke some pins on a trayed processor, and went through the warranty process from AMD just to see what would happen. It showed up as a boxed proc and was warrantied and upgraded!

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Originally posted by: Changoboy
Damn it to hell! No Fry's in Fresno. Why? Why? Why?

 

[cubeless]

just fyi... i picked up one of the the $118 ecs/e4500 combos (i also have one the ecs/4800 combos) whilst in dallas last week... it is running 255mhz fsb for 2.8ghz right now... won't run 266 (even with bsel mod, must need more volts and board has no cpu voltage adj) with $7.50 a stick hp micron mem...

the e4500 is a good hunk faster vs the 4800 @ 2.75... but the 4800 combo may take a phenon, but this 645 chipset board with the 4500 won't run a quad, it looks like...

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Originally posted by: cubeless
just fyi... i picked up one of the the $118 ecs/e4500 combos (i also have one the ecs/4800 combos) whilst in dallas last week... it is running 255mhz fsb for 2.8ghz right now... won't run 266 (even with bsel mod, must need more volts and board has no cpu voltage adj) with $7.50 a stick hp micron mem...

the e4500 is a good hunk faster vs the 4800 @ 2.75... but the 4800 combo may take a phenon, but this 645 chipset board with the 4500 won't run a quad, it looks like...

Yeah, think I'm going to wait for an e2180 combo or similar around $90 since I have a spare 775 cooler anyways. Even with the oc being a bit limited the speed would be awesome for the price.

 

[htne]

Originally posted by: cubeless
just fyi... i picked up one of the the $118 ecs/e4500 combos (i also have one the ecs/4800 combos) whilst in dallas last week... it is running 255mhz fsb for 2.8ghz right now... won't run 266 (even with bsel mod, must need more volts and board has no cpu voltage adj) with $7.50 a stick hp micron mem...

the e4500 is a good hunk faster vs the 4800 @ 2.75... but the 4800 combo may take a phenon, but this 645 chipset board with the 4500 won't run a quad, it looks like...

Was this with the ECS 945GCT-M motherboard? If so, how did you overclock? Mine will not overclock, except via the BSEL mod.

 

[cubeless]

yup on the 945gct-m... what cpu? it seems to have a problem identifying the e4500 m0, and puts out a message when booting about "this is a 200 mhz fsb processor..." even after updating the bios to supposedly fix that (11/7/7)...

in the frequency panel you have to enable autodetect fsb (seems odd) and then set the fsb oc...

will your cpu do 266 with the bsel mod?

 

[htne]

Originally posted by: cubeless
yup on the 945gct-m... what cpu? it seems to have a problem identifying the e4500 m0, and puts out a message when booting about "this is a 200 mhz fsb processor..." even after updating the bios to supposedly fix that (11/7/7)...

in the frequency panel you have to enable autodetect fsb (seems odd) and then set the fsb oc...

will your cpu do 266 with the bsel mod?

I purchased a different combo, the same motherboard but with the Celeron 430. When I set the FSB to 233, it comes up fine, and cpu-z shows 9 x 200, no overclock. If I set the FSB to 266, the board will not boot, and I have to clear CMOS. I performed the BSEL mod on the cpu, which gives me the message from the bios about "this is a 200 mhz....". But it does boot, and it is running 266 mhz FSB (9 x 266 according to cpu-z). I ran across someone else over in the motherboards forum (or was it overclocking?) who said his 945GCT-M ignored the FSB setting in the CMOS, so I was curious that yours appeared to be working.

 

[cubeless]

no answers for that...

 

[winr]

Thanks OP.

I picked up the ECS/4800+ combo, it did not come with a heatsink.


I also picked up a Seagate 320 gig SATA drive .10 retail kit with a 5 year warranty for $64.99.




🙂

 

[DefDC]

Stupid Frys. Now they have an AMD X2 5600+ and mobo for $129...


Linky


Now I gotta make a decision if I wanna make a 2hr trip to Chicago... 🙂

It's been long enough since I've been there last...

Argh! Just noticed that it's for Thursday only.

 

[cubeless]

not like there's a rush... next weeks deal will probably be better...

 

[AntiFreze]

I am thinking about this for my older 2nd pc. Currently that PC has an AMD athlon 1800+ with a ATI Radeon (agp) 9500pro. Will I see a big jump in gaming? onboard video scares me.

 

[skillyho]

Originally posted by: htne

Originally posted by: cubeless
yup on the 945gct-m... what cpu? it seems to have a problem identifying the e4500 m0, and puts out a message when booting about "this is a 200 mhz fsb processor..." even after updating the bios to supposedly fix that (11/7/7)...

in the frequency panel you have to enable autodetect fsb (seems odd) and then set the fsb oc...

will your cpu do 266 with the bsel mod?

I purchased a different combo, the same motherboard but with the Celeron 430. When I set the FSB to 233, it comes up fine, and cpu-z shows 9 x 200, no overclock. If I set the FSB to 266, the board will not boot, and I have to clear CMOS. I performed the BSEL mod on the cpu, which gives me the message from the bios about "this is a 200 mhz....". But it does boot, and it is running 266 mhz FSB (9 x 266 according to cpu-z). I ran across someone else over in the motherboards forum (or was it overclocking?) who said his 945GCT-M ignored the FSB setting in the CMOS, so I was curious that yours appeared to be working.

I had that board and the same problem a while back....you have to disable "Enable FSB Host Control" or something like that ....there is some option that you have to turn OFF that you'd think you would need on for CMOS to pull your user adjusted FSB. It worked for me, and others on separate forums.