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Dig this deal we got . How much would you pay?!?

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Quackmaster

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So do you think we got a good deal? My buddy and I woke up this Saturday morning and went to mwave.com (known LA retailer with will call. Very similar to newegg which is nearby.. They were having a 5 month sale to get rid of excess inventory because they just moved to a new location. We got their at 9am and the two of us pooled our money and purchased-

3 x Asus A7V333 RAID (VIA KT333 chipset)

1x Asus A7V266- E (w/ RAID) (VIAKT266A)

6 x Abit KR7-A (KT266A)

Shuttle AK31 ( I think it's rev.1)

Shuttle AK12

Abit BE-6 II (awesome successor to the Slot 1 BH-6)

Abit BF-6

1x Geforce 3 ti200 SVHS & composite out

3x Winfast Geforce2 GTS SVHS and composite out.

Antec SX835 II workstation case

3 packages of Pinnacle Studio 7 (full suite, yeah, I got virtual dub and flask, too. But this and Adobe Premier are considered the best for the consumer market).

Free Thermaltake keychains shaped and painted to look like Xaser cases.

Free copies of Drones and Gunlock with the Winfast cards (full version games).



We also got to talk with the large number of maunufacturer booths including: Corsair (pimping their Hydrocool 200), Shuttle, Thermaltake, Kingston, Microsoft, Gigabyte, Epox, Kingwin (with some of their killer black 480watt PSU's with 4 fans (2x80mm and 2x60mm). I found CaseEdge aluminum and stell server tower (in a gorgeous charcoal/marbled gray finish) with dual redundant hot-swappable PSU and sporting 6 hot-swappable hdd bays, 4 x 5.25 bays and 2 3.5 bays with all the usual controllers, and features for $100 (brand new, clean as could be).

As a side note, Corsair did NOT have any Hydrocool units on display, only brochures. But the rep I spoke with said they will be making 3 ("yes", three!) different versions depending on someones cooling needs.

Also Shuttle had their usual fair of small-form-factor PCs including the new Intel Springdale chipset (865) based sff. One of the representatives in the both told us they are making an SFF just for overclockers. It will NOT have onboard video since we ususally buy our own (NForce2 IGP is not THAT good. My friend replaced his onboard vid with the Geforce 3 ti200), and will have other "OC specific" goodies.

The Microsoft rep said we can expect the success of Media Center PCs to grow with more OEMs being given license to build Media Center cases. I asked him if he knew of them licensing a Media Center to a gaming PC marker other than Alienware. He said yes, but couldn't say when.



So back to the topic, how much do you think we paid? To recap-

14 mobos, mostly Athlon KT266A or 333 based

1 Antec case

4 vid cards including 3 Geforce 2s and one Geforce 3

3 pinnacle studio 7 software suites

and lots of fun in the sun (my buddy a pale redhead turned into a lobster in the hot SoCa heat. :|

We paid US$210 tax included. $5 per mobo, too. The case was $40 (fans etc included but no PSU. A nice case) $15/vid card except the Geforce 3 ti 200 which was $45 (they had a Geforce 3 ti500 for $90). And to top it all of they had a free raffle with people winning prizes every 30 minutes (some very nice prizes too, Shuttle sff mini-PCs, Thermaltake PSUs (the really nice new blackones).

My buddy actually builds people systems all the time for a small fee, so at a cost of $5/mobo +a $50 Athlon 1800+, $40 of DDR, hdd and $15 Geforce 2vid card, and case and that is a nice deal for cheap! I'm taking 2 of the Asus RAID boards ( plus one more one for a buddy's who's broke and can't play C&C Generals 'cuz his 'puter sucks:disgust: ), and making a file server and Linux box.
 
Dang, some people have all the luck. 🙁


But what a great deal for you and your bud! That Antec case is the newer version of the very case I am using right now. I love it. You ought to snag that as well. 🙂
 
You could easily make some good money off those Motherboards...

I would be willing to snag one of the Asus A7v...

😀

PM with a price if your willing!

🙂
 
great deal.

too bad via sucks and should die
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Yeah, cause competition is bad. I'd love to pay $200 for an nForce2.
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Grats on the awesome deal 😀 :beer:
 
We weren't the only ones getting great deals, although what surprised me was how obvious it was most people don't know their chipsets/mobo makers and their product lines. Their were TONS of great Gigabyte boards, even P4 socket 478 stuffs, lots of Shuttle, Soyo etc. And most people there didn't know something good when they saw it. This one ,moron who claimed he was a "system integrator" refused to buy ANY of the awesome $5 Gigabyte boards saying they were a tiny little company who makes junk (they are the world's 2nd largest mobo maker after Asus). Meanwhile this dork was buying stuff like KT266 (non-KT266-A) mobos, 4MB vid cards, 40G hdds for $30... Beauty IS in the eye of the beholder i guess...
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Either that or a sucker IS born every minute :evil:

They also had lots of Nforce (first version) and other recent boards for US$15-35. Mwave was smart and had these all located on the opposite side of the lot far away from the $5 boards. Really, there was so much good stuff I couldn't name it all, but we got there at 9:15am (the sale started at 9:30) after driving over from Pasadena (20 mins with LA traffic). IF YOU EVER HEAR ABOUT A NEWEGG OR MWAVE SALE, JUST GET THERE EVEN IF IT'S BY BUS!!

The sucky thing was I only went there to get some of the new Artic Silver Ceramique and maybe a video-in PCI card so I can digitze my VCR tapes. Next thing I know I dont' have enough money to buy all I wanted...grrrr. Good thing tho, I'm broke as hell since shelling out for my new P4 rig. If I'd had more money I woulda bought a LOT more stuff, just so I could hook other peeps up, but as it was I loaned my friend money just to buy what we got (most of it being his stuff)

As for what's gonna happen to the stuff, my buddy Kevin owns his own business building people computers, setting up their home network etc, so he's keeping 11 of the mobos for customer's systems (that allows him to give his customers a great deal on the mobos and still get a good profit off of them). He's keeping all the vid cards for the same purpose, but keeping the Geforce 3 ti200 to replace the onboard vid in his Nforce2/Barton 2500+ rig. I kept the Antec case, one of the Asus A7V333 RAID boards and the Asus A7V266-E (RAID) to form a Linux box and also a file server. I also kept one of the Abit KR7-A boards to give to a friend so he can get off his a** and build a decent box for playing C&C Generals (I'm talking to you Ed, where you at d00d?!?). He's amazingly good at c&c, just thought I'd mention it (plus he's the one that got me hooked. "Now can I have some f***ing shoes? 😀 )

Anybody wanting one of the myriad of motherboards, contact my buddy Kevin at crowncitycomputers.com He is located in Pasadena, CA, and is a fair and honest guy. You might also check and see if they have them listed on the mwave.com website.

I would also highly reccomend anyone looking for hot-swappable RAID servers to contact mwave. They had a HUGE number of cases in perfect condition. I saw a rack-mount 1U server with dual PSUs (hot-swap of course) and loads of features for US$100. We left at 1:20pm (sunburned like rotisserie chickens) and there was no way they were gonna come even close to selling all that stuff. The cases and mobos were still going stong on both the $5 front and the higher-priced stuff, too. I would guess they still had around ~250-400 mobos still for sale when we left and also at least 50 cases (there were also lots of non-server cases including the Enermax mid towers with built in flourescent lights, windows etc (models like CS-3051, CS-3191, CS-586881 blah blah blah). Good luck!
 
Originally posted by: onza
anyone willing to buy for some ppl that cant get on these deals?
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Yeah, it seems that most of this stuff goes on in California. A company nearby here (PA) advertised PC's for $25. Well, they're sort of worth that - the fastest was a P2 300 with 64MB of RAM. The rest were slower. I was hoping for a better deal - didn't bother with them.🙁
 
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