-DEAD- 64 bit Motherboard and Cpu for 198 shipped @newegg

[imported_nitrus]

I was looking @ the 2800+ and i noticed that if you bought the abit kv8 motherboard you save 82 dollars! the total i paid for the combo 198. im not planning on overclocking, and this will tide me over till technologies such and socket 939 and nf3 250 becomes more mature. im hoping the next revision of nf3 gets ncq. gl on getting this combo. tell me what you think

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[DustBunny]

absolutely hot... i might jump on this for my neighbor's comp......

 

[echow87]

WHOA and I just got a p4 that cost me more...a northwood :/

Just tried ordering, its SOLD OUT.

 

[maface]

Sweet deal but it looks like the MB is sold out. I wish I saw earlier

 

[50]

Really HOT, too bad mobo is sold out. BTW could this mobo get very far Overclocking?

 

[DustBunny]

Not very far.... i think you can get 219 or so... but thats it... on boards with working AGP/PCI locks, you can get MUCH higher....

 

[stokey7873]

does this board have three IDE slots or am i mistaking the floppy slot for an extra IDE?

 

[ir0nw0lf]

The black connection is a floppy connection.

 

[PCPETE]

OOS damn! Newegg usually restocks quickly though. Hopefully this deal will live though

 

[Delbert]

[brag] some of us got in on this this afternoon [/brag]
Yea!

 

[ivan2]

the board only got 2 DIMMs that's a turn off for me, and OOS also

 

[imported_earthslash]

I signed up for auto-notification for the restock of the abit mobo (after reading about the $223 deal in another thread and that the ABit was OOS), and got an email around 9:00 am friday, and ordered it a couple hours later... too bad for everyone who didn't get a chance to get in on this.

- Steve

 

[TrentSteel]

The Chaintech mobo is still available.

Thank you so much for the post! Now I just need to find $200... hmm....

 

[JBT]

woa NICE price if only the Abit was in stock

 

[Kakyoin]

definately a nice price. Hopefully they will have em in stock soon!

 

[Lanyap]

Yes, the Chaintech is back in stock for now. BUT, NE is automatically adding far cry when you add the MB and CPU to your cart. This bumps the price up by $25 to $223 again.

 

[9ball]

This is tempting, but how much of an upgrade is it from my current 2.0Ghz oc to 2.5GHz northwood P4, I mostly play games.

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: Lanyap
Yes, the Chaintech is back in stock for now. BUT, NE is automatically adding far cry when you add the MB and CPU to your cart. This bumps the price up by $25 to $223 again.

Thats part of the Farcry promotion Newegg is doing. The price of Farcry should be deducted, so its saves you $25....if you want farcry. If you go to the hompage look to the left and you'll see the pricing for the different combos.

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: Childs

Originally posted by: Lanyap
Yes, the Chaintech is back in stock for now. BUT, NE is automatically adding far cry when you add the MB and CPU to your cart. This bumps the price up by $25 to $223 again.

Thats part of the Farcry promotion Newegg is doing. The price of Farcry should be deducted, so its saves you $25....if you want farcry. If you go to the hompage look to the left and you'll see the pricing for the different combos.

This thread was for their special "$223 Feature Combo" where NE did not add Far Cry to the bundle for a short time which checked out at $198. I think it was a mistake on NE's part and when they saw this thread they realized the error and fixed it. Technically, yes, Far Cry is free in the $223 bundle but if you didn't need Far Cry then the $198 bundle was a better deal. If the Abit MB comes back in stock I might still get it and sell FC to a friend since I already have it.

 

[CrazyGamer]

Originally posted by: 9ball
This is tempting, but how much of an upgrade is it from my current 2.0Ghz oc to 2.5GHz northwood P4, I mostly play games.

For gaming the A64 2800+ seems to score slightly below P4 3.0ghz and above the older athlon XP3200+

If you like overclocking you may want to hold out for another mobo, both the Abit and Chaintech are based on the VIA K8T800 chipset (non-pro) and have no PCI/AGP lock severly limiting the ability to up the fsb.

 

[ponyo]

Curse Hot Deals! I'm going to have to pick this bundle up when Newegg gets the motherboard back in stock.

 

[ViRGE]

*looks at wallet*
*looks at deal*
*looks at wallet*
*looks at deal*

Ahh screw it, I'm buying me one of these once it's back in stock.

 

[pxc]

bah, that would have saved me the trouble of selling Far Cry (NFR, hah). Only a couple $$ difference anyways.

I <3 my new 64-bit system. Too bad there's so few 64-bit drivers available for the free eval WinXP 64-bit so far. This could be a WinME debacle all over again (mpd's rocky start).

 

[Cali3350]

OK this makes me mad .

I jumped on the Chaintech SK8T800 and Athlon 64 2800+ Bundle for $223 on Wednesday, and now i can get the Abit board and this for less? Im mad.

Oh, and the 2800 is always above or equal to the 3.2 p4 in games.

 

[dheffer]

Originally posted by: Cali3350
OK this makes me mad .

I jumped on the Chaintech SK8T800 and Athlon 64 2800+ Bundle for $223 on Wednesday, and now i can get the Abit board and this for less? Im mad.

Oh, and the 2800 is always above or equal to the 3.2 p4 in games.

This happened to me, too. I checked with newegg, and if you RMA return it, after the 15% restocking fee, you get back $226, and you get to keep FarCry. You lose couple of dollars for having to send it back, but you dont have to have the chaintech and you get farcry, the abit, and the a64 for 198 when all is said and done =)
Assuming that the abit comes back in stock