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hans007

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http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-45CT-D#

$108.12 - 5% live cash + shipping - SIZZLE15 code.


Seems like a good deal. its $129.99 - live cash at newegg and out of stock. The single core version at newegg actaully costs $109.99 + shipping...

For me newegg shipping is less like $13.xx vs $20 at ewiz (for me anyway). But ewiz live cash is 5% instead of 2.5%.

That said seems reasonably cheap. shipping seems to be about $20-25 (the lower range is pretty absurd, since i'm 30 miles away from ewiz) which is high, but it does cost $22 less than newegg and every other store on the internet to begin with.

That said its still a good deal cheaper than anywhere else on the net in total. Single core version at ewiz is $15 less at $93.84 before live cash.

If the price changes, order it at night. Ewiz messes with their prices during the daytime hours for some reason.

SIZZLE15 added for $15 off. Apparently the price of this during daytime hours is $119.00

WTF is wrong with ewiz. anyway , buy it after 7 PST.
 
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Stoneburner

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THis is a damn good deal. I am very much tempted....

BTW, add in coupon code SIZZLE15 for another 15 off!

EDIT: $20 for shipping! WTF?
 
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BTA

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This is a pretty damn good deal.

Looks like a nicer box than the MSI Wind PC on Newegg for less money.
 
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California Roll

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Can anyone confirm that this does not have Gigabit ethernet? This will dash my hopes in using it as a low cost server.
 
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Originally posted by: California Roll
Can anyone confirm that this does not have Gigabit ethernet? This will dash my hopes in using it as a low cost server.
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The Foxconn Spec Sheet shows 10/100M LAN by Realtek® RTL8101E.

I really wish they would update these Atom based products. Get away from the 945 chipset and include HDMI built in, or even ditch the PCI/Com/Parallel/PS2 ports and give me a PCI-E x16 slot. Would make for an excellent mini-itx media player for a TV.
 
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DaveSimmons

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I don't see digital out pins on the motherboard, otherwise this would make a perfect music server: passively cooled, 3.5" HD.

I really wish they would update these Atom based products. Get away from the 945 chipset and include HDMI built in, or even ditch the PCI/Com/Parallel/PS2 ports and give me a PCI-E x16 slot. Would make for an excellent mini-itx media player for a TV.
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Definitely, with hardware accelerated decoding this would be a nice HTPC box.
 
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BTA

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Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Originally posted by: California Roll
Can anyone confirm that this does not have Gigabit ethernet? This will dash my hopes in using it as a low cost server.
Click to expand...

The Foxconn Spec Sheet shows 10/100M LAN by Realtek® RTL8101E.

I really wish they would update these Atom based products. Get away from the 945 chipset and include HDMI built in, or even ditch the PCI/Com/Parallel/PS2 ports and give me a PCI-E x16 slot. Would make for an excellent mini-itx media player for a TV.
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You can get all of these things, but not for $87.
 
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That's pretty cheap. Case goes for around $50 by itself.
 
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I was wondering, those of you who are getting this or are excited about the deal, what is the intended use? Simply a small form-factor desktop or did you have something else in mind?
Thanks.
 
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Binky

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I'm thinking about this for the GF. Add a 30gb SSD, a cheap stick of 2gb memory, and she's got a nice little system (email, web browsing, etc) that should be very quiet and consume very little power.
 
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hans007

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Originally posted by: GilletteCat
I was wondering, those of you who are getting this or are excited about the deal, what is the intended use? Simply a small form-factor desktop or did you have something else in mind?
Thanks.
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I actaully am not getting one. if it was gigabit i'd have used it as a nas.

It would make a great 2nd computer or something it seems, but it seems its fairly limited since it has no digital ports to be say a htpc.

the gigabit thing really sucks since the intel board has it.
 
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Originally posted by: GilletteCat
I was wondering, those of you who are getting this or are excited about the deal, what is the intended use? Simply a small form-factor desktop or did you have something else in mind?
Thanks.
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I wouldn't say I'm excited about it, but I'm considering it because I'm still in the mindset where I like to have a desktop running consistently so I can pop on and do something whenever I feel like it.

Checking email in the morning before work, leaving a download client running with the stuff piping to a NAS, remoting in to work when I'm on-call, or even just for visitors to use cause I don't want them fiddling with my laptop.
 
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maxxas

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Cananyone get the SIZZLE15 code to work? It's telling me that it expired. Would love to reduce some of the shipping cost. thanks.
 
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hans007

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Originally posted by: maxxas
Cananyone get the SIZZLE15 code to work? It's telling me that it expired. Would love to reduce some of the shipping cost. thanks.
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looks like that expired on the 15th.
 
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What I have read is that the onboard video is lacking. It isn't capable of doing 1080p. Is there a low power pci graphics card that can do that? Also, the case appears to be incredibly tight. Are there any single slot passively cooled cards out there?
 
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Fox5

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Originally posted by: nhocstrasser
What I have read is that the onboard video is lacking. It isn't capable of doing 1080p. Is there a low power pci graphics card that can do that? Also, the case appears to be incredibly tight. Are there any single slot passively cooled cards out there?
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I wouldn't count on the PCI bus being able to handle the bandwidth.

Any ITX system without integrated graphics or a PCI-Express slot kills the appeal for me.
 
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