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E2180 Retail Box and Mother board for 98 bucks

yeah,

I bought 2 sets , just for kicks..I was surprised to get the retail box version...Imagine 10x? could be possible? Yeah

by the new to site , first post....
 
Good effort new guy 🙂.

Keep an eye on those dates, and let us know what else you find down the road.
 
I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all, but deals like this are business as usual at Fry's. They offer CPU/motherboard combos for little to nothing above the cost of the CPU alone literally every day of the week.

The ads that come out on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday expire on Tuesday; the ad that comes out on Wednesday expires on Thursday. They run the same specials over and over. This particular combo has been on sale at least three times in the last three weeks in my area. If you miss a sale, just wait about a week and you'll probably see the same thing on sale again, or maybe an even better deal next time. The best deals sometimes get posted at AnandTech, which is a good thing because it saves us the trouble of looking at the newspaper ads every single day. 🙂

Fry's probably doesn't make any money on these CPU/motherboard combos but they hope you'll buy other components at full price to go with them (memory, case, hard drive, etc.). It's called a "loss leader" strategy.

The best sales are on special holidays such as Labor Day, which are usually "one day" sales. For example, on Labor Day I got a Pentium E2140 retail CPU with an ECS P4M900T-M for $69.99 plus tax. They will undoubtedly have some incredible deals on Black Friday.


Originally posted by: SickBeast
Originally posted by: marincounty
Deal is alive once more. I'm going to pair this with a ip35e and ditch the motherboard.
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How much do you think you can get for the motherboard used?
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You can sell the motherboard new in the box on eBay (no need to open the box if you're not going to use it) for anywhere from $25-40 (probably closer to the lower end of the scale). It just depends on whether your listing attracts the right buyer. After eBay fees and PayPal fees, you might end up with about $20-35 for the motherboard.

By my calculations, the cost of the combo with tax is $107.16. You can get the CPU by itself in a retail box at NewEgg for $91.99 with free shipping to your door, so in essence, you're paying $15.17 plus gas money to and from the store for the motherboard.

Here's how I see it. If you want to keep the motherboard, you're getting a pretty hot deal--a brand new 945-based motherboard for about $15 (plus transportation costs). If you plan to throw it away, you might as well buy the CPU by itself and save the $15. If you plan to sell the motherboard on eBay, you might make a profit of $5-20 minus gas money, time, and potential headaches dealing with a buyer, and I'm not sure that's worth it.
 
Originally posted by: jiffer
I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all, but deals like this are business as usual at Fry's. They offer CPU/motherboard combos for little to nothing above the cost of the CPU alone literally every day of the week.

The ads that come out on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday expire on Tuesday; the ad that comes out on Wednesday expires on Thursday. They run the same specials over and over. This particular combo has been on sale at least three times in the last three weeks in my area. If you miss a sale, just wait about a week and you'll probably see the same thing on sale again, or maybe an even better deal next time. The best deals sometimes get posted at AnandTech, which is a good thing because it saves us the trouble of looking at the newspaper ads every single day. 🙂

Fry's probably doesn't make any money on these CPU/motherboard combos but they hope you'll buy other components at full price to go with them (memory, case, hard drive, etc.). It's called a "loss leader" strategy.

The best sales are on special holidays such as Labor Day, which are usually "one day" sales. For example, on Labor Day I got a Pentium E2140 retail CPU with an ECS P4M900T-M for $69.99 plus tax. They will undoubtedly have some incredible deals on Black Friday.


Originally posted by: SickBeast
Originally posted by: marincounty
Deal is alive once more. I'm going to pair this with a ip35e and ditch the motherboard.
Click to expand...
How much do you think you can get for the motherboard used?
Click to expand...

You can sell the motherboard new in the box on eBay (no need to open the box if you're not going to use it) for anywhere from $25-40 (probably closer to the lower end of the scale). It just depends on whether your listing attracts the right buyer. After eBay fees and PayPal fees, you might end up with about $20-35 for the motherboard.

By my calculations, the cost of the combo with tax is $107.16. You can get the CPU by itself in a retail box at NewEgg for $91.99 with free shipping to your door, so in essence, you're paying $15.17 plus gas money to and from the store for the motherboard.

Here's how I see it. If you want to keep the motherboard, you're getting a pretty hot deal--a brand new 945-based motherboard for about $15 (plus transportation costs). If you plan to throw it away, you might as well buy the CPU by itself and save the $15. If you plan to sell the motherboard on eBay, you might make a profit of $5-20 minus gas money, time, and potential headaches dealing with a buyer, and I'm not sure that's worth it.
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Jiffer,

You are so right.. But at the time it seemed good..Well here is another option build it up and sell it for a small profit? Some people are not gamer's.. So this solution would be right up their alley..just a thought.

bbf
 
How overclockable is this combo?
The E2180 is supposed to overclock easily. Not sure how accomodating this ECS motherboard is to overclocking though.
 
The board is only good for stock speed,
but the processor is a retail boxed version w/ 3yr warranty..

I have a rig built (GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L) and its very stable at 3.0 ghz.. ram of choice is supertalent 667 @ 900 mhz..

underload I get up to 60c running ortho 1.5 hours no proble.. Useing a Tx2 cooler..Hope this helps..

bbf
 
I've never been able to get a good overclocking result on ANY 945-based motherboard, not even one made by Gigabyte or Asus. There are a couple of G33-based motherboards that are good at overclocking, and many 965- and P35-based motherboards are REALLY good at overclocking. Be aware that 965- and P35-based motherboards draw a LOT of power from your electrical outlet when you overclock (your uninterruptable power supply might whine about it), and weaker 3-phase voltage regulators are not suitable for longterm overclocking. You should also consider adding active cooling to the north bridge chip because it tends to get really hot.

Standard ECS motherboards (excluding some of their high end models) do not have many overclocking options in the BIOS and they only have three-phase voltage regulators. Personally, I don't have a problem with ECS motherboards (when you buy an Abit motherboard, chances are it was actually made by ECS), but they are usually not suitable for overclocking--they are "budget" motherboards, so if you want something better, you probably need to spend more money.

Any of the Pentium E21xx processors should overclock easily on the right motherboard. I recently bought five E2140s and tried to overclock all of them. The best of the lot can run at 3.2GHz with stock cooling and standard voltage. (I too was using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard.) Three of them topped out at about 2.8GHz. The last one topped out at about 2.9GHz; it might have made it to 3.0GHz if I had increased the voltage and used a better CPU cooler, but I don't take extreme measures to overclock (all I do is raise the bus speed--if it works it's fine, if it doesn't work then I don't bother with it).
 
Originally posted by: jrichrds
How overclockable is this combo?
The E2180 is supposed to overclock easily. Not sure how accomodating this ECS motherboard is to overclocking though.
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I got mine to run at 3.0 10x300 its very fast..paired with a 1650pro card..and 2 gig..
 
Originally posted by: Bigbassfrank
ecs will only do stock speed.
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Is it really that bad? I was able to significantly overclock an AMD X2 on an ECS motherboard from an even cheaper Fry's combo.

Did you try the ECS board, or did you just go straight to the better mobo?
 
Originally posted by: jrichrds
Originally posted by: Bigbassfrank
ecs will only do stock speed.
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Is it really that bad? I was able to significantly overclock an AMD X2 on an ECS motherboard from an even cheaper Fry's combo.

Did you try the ECS board, or did you just go straight to the better mobo?
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I tired it the first day.. The bios was locked,, auto sensed the speed and clock..I was wishing and hoping.. Specs on board say will support 1066 FSB..I guess you have to pin mod it?

BBf
 
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