biostar m7-vit pro kt400 and barton 2500+ for $116

[hans007]

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=R-VIT-25-K18


new board and used CPU use the 10% coupon. seems like a good deal, as the CPU is $85 at newegg (well new not used) making the board like $31.

they have a copper base fan there for $8 also that should work well.

 

[tlowing]

Price is reading 129.00 for me.

 

[Titan]

use the magic code to get 10% off any non-geek specials. That does make it $116 to make you feel better when you go to pay for shipping. I think this system is really silly, since geeks always labels high-priced items as "geek special." I'm suprised this combo wasn't labeled as such. Geeks is always a good deal, and the code allows some big pucrchases to save a bit.

The only time i took advantage of it was when I was looking at a used thinkpad, all were grade B and of course, "geek special." They're website is updated in real time and a new item was a grade A non-geek special so I saved like 35 bucks. Was glad I jumped on it. This barton combo deal is pretty good, I wouldn't be suprised if they will be OOS by the end of the day.

 

[hytek369]

pretty hot deal

 

[RU482]

XP2200 for $58 before coupon (10% off coupon pretty much nullifies shipping cost)

DOH, code won't work on these 🙁

 

[splice]

fyi, the CPU is used and the board is new.

On a side note, I don't think I've ever had a bad CPU that I bought used.

Pretty hot deal

 

[FPSguy]

Here is some data in case it is relevant to people's decision about whether to go for this:

New Biostar M7VIT Pro Retail - $54 (shipped)

Athlon XP 2500+ - $66 used (shipped -- but not easy to get); $92 new with heatsink (shipped)

Price at Geeks: $129 - $12.90 discount + $7 shipping = $123.10 (shipped)

New/Used Price at Excaliber/newegg: $120 (shipped, but hard to get the used CPU)
New/New Price at Excaliber/newegg: $146 (shipped, plus you get the heatsink if that is of any value to you)

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: FPSguy
Here is some data in case it is relevant to people's decision about whether to go for this:

New Biostar M7VIT Pro Retail - $54 (shipped)

Athlon XP 2500+ - $66 used (shipped -- but not easy to get); $92 new with heatsink (shipped)

Price at Geeks: $129 - $12.90 discount + $7 shipping = $123.10 (shipped)

New/Used Price at Excaliber/newegg: $120 (shipped, but hard to get the used CPU)
New/New Price at Excaliber/newegg: $146 (shipped, plus you get the heatsink if that is of any value to you)

"hard to get" is an understatement. its almost impossible to get it on refurb. the newegg one is retail though. when newegg has oem like compgeeks its $57 or so

 

[tvarad]

The barton 2500+ is highly overclockable so could the used ones be returns that couldn't be overclocked?

 

[edavid]

Out of stock!

 

[FPSguy]

Originally posted by: hans007... "hard to get" is an understatement. its almost impossible to get it on refurb. ...

Not if you have a program that alerts you when the item you want is available as a newegg refurb ... 😀