Bay Area Frys: Bare 2.4Ghz 800Mhz P4 w/mobo for $119

[Childs]

http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/RopAds.aspx?adv=32664&ad=1103772

Newegg's OEM price for the just the CPU is around $10 more. Not sure about the motherboard, but I'll check it out after work. Just wanted to let you guys know before its over.

 

[SimsFreak]

Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

I can live with mine just fine. Has AGP/PCI locks, so I can up the FSB until I hit a max overclock without worrying about my components. If it had voltage adjustments, it would be the perfect board.

Anyways, my Precott 2.4 runs all day long at 3.24GHz at 1.4v on those ECS motherboards.

 

[Childs]

I've had the ECS with the 848, and that thing was great value for the money. The only thing it need was voltage adjustments, like jpeyton said. I had a 2.6C hitting 3.2Ghz, without being able to adjust the voltages.

 

[nolovenohope]

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

Have you even used a ECS mobo in the past year? The days of the ECS K7S5A are far over, ECS has turned into a good product, that has always been a great bang for the buck, and is no longer in their ECS K7S5A POS era.

 

[lxie123]

Originally posted by: nolovenohope

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

Have you even used a ECS mobo in the past year? The days of the ECS K7S5A are far over, ECS has turned into a good product, that has always been a great bang for the buck, and is no longer in their ECS K7S5A POS era.

Lets not go crazy, while this board might be stable and suitable for oc with 533fsb processor like the 2.4a, i'd take an abit or asus board any day of the week.

this mobo has no memory divider .. so you must buy pc4000 just to oc to 3.0 ghz with the 2.4c in this combo. this defeats the purpose of an oced budget system since u can't use that cheap pc3200 value ram fry's has for 54.99

also mobo has no dual channel memory support

 

[nolovenohope]

Originally posted by: lxie123

Originally posted by: nolovenohope

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

Have you even used a ECS mobo in the past year? The days of the ECS K7S5A are far over, ECS has turned into a good product, that has always been a great bang for the buck, and is no longer in their ECS K7S5A POS era.

Lets not go crazy, while this board might be stable and suitable for oc with 533fsb processor like the 2.4a, i'd take an abit or asus board any day of the week.

this mobo has no memory divider .. so you must buy pc4000 just to oc to 3.0 ghz with the 2.4c in this combo. this defeats the purpose of an oced budget system since u can't use that cheap pc3200 value ram fry's has for 54.99

also mobo has no dual channel memory support

Oh, I never claimed it to be a godsend, don't get me wrong, I'd still take Asus/Abit anyday, just that ECS has turned their act around from the K7S5A days (and yes, I did have a K7S5A, and after dying within 2 monthes, I took it into the garage, and put a sledgehammer through it).

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: lxie123

Originally posted by: nolovenohope

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

Have you even used a ECS mobo in the past year? The days of the ECS K7S5A are far over, ECS has turned into a good product, that has always been a great bang for the buck, and is no longer in their ECS K7S5A POS era.

Lets not go crazy, while this board might be stable and suitable for oc with 533fsb processor like the 2.4a, i'd take an abit or asus board any day of the week.

this mobo has no memory divider .. so you must buy pc4000 just to oc to 3.0 ghz with the 2.4c in this combo. this defeats the purpose of an oced budget system since u can't use that cheap pc3200 value ram fry's has for 54.99

also mobo has no dual channel memory support

It does have a memory divider. I've seen and used the BIOS setting and verified the divider changes using CPU-Z.

 

[BullyCanadian]

Hey can anyone buy this for me and ship to canada? I can pay with paypal

 

[Childs]

Without the motherboard, this is a great deal on the CPU. The motherboard is solid, and its essentially free. If you want an overclocking monster combo expect to spend more than $120.

 

[manuelku]

I call it a good deal.. I am an average user and it gave me the speed to play some good 3D games for cheap..

 

[lxie123]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: lxie123

Originally posted by: nolovenohope

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
Great deal, if you can live with ECS mobo's =/

Have you even used a ECS mobo in the past year? The days of the ECS K7S5A are far over, ECS has turned into a good product, that has always been a great bang for the buck, and is no longer in their ECS K7S5A POS era.

Lets not go crazy, while this board might be stable and suitable for oc with 533fsb processor like the 2.4a, i'd take an abit or asus board any day of the week.

this mobo has no memory divider .. so you must buy pc4000 just to oc to 3.0 ghz with the 2.4c in this combo. this defeats the purpose of an oced budget system since u can't use that cheap pc3200 value ram fry's has for 54.99

also mobo has no dual channel memory support

It does have a memory divider. I've seen and used the BIOS setting and verified the divider changes using CPU-Z.

for oc purpose the memory ratio on this board is useless.
it can not run 5:4 or 3:2 ratio.. it will let you run 1:1 or 4:5 which means the ram has to run even higher.