ECS K7VTA3 motherboard + 2400 Bare CPu =$64.99 at Fry's

[porkchopskie]

Title says it all.. It is at Fry's in Los Angleles. :beer::beer:

Time to make baby yet ? :beer::beer:

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

wow... amazing deal

 

[DrPizza]

Grrr! All these Athlon + motherboard deals are at Fry's... I have no fry's near me
Why can't everyone else have these kinds of deals?

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
wow... amazing deal

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Grrr! All these Athlon + motherboard deals are at Fry's... I have no fry's near me
Why can't everyone else have these kinds of deals?

One of the Fry's has "Telesales" if you're willing to pay shipping. I think it might be the San Jose Fry's.

 

[mercuryswitch]

this is like an everyday happening at our local fry's... two min drive

 

[kenrippy]

I picked one of these combos up today. Not quite as good of a deal as the one a couple weeks ago w/ a 2500 barton for $75.

I will sell off the k7vta3 for $35 shipped.

 

[yodayoda]

the hot deal was the 2200+ chip and ECS board for $59. it was a thorton chip and all i did was change the FSB from 133 to 166 and now i have a 2800+ chip. runs supercool too. this might be a thorton CPU too!

 

[PremiumG]

Originally posted by: oLLie

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Grrr! All these Athlon + motherboard deals are at Fry's... I have no fry's near me
Why can't everyone else have these kinds of deals?

One of the Fry's has "Telesales" if you're willing to pay shipping. I think it might be the San Jose Fry's.

do you have to pay tax too? or just shipping?

 

[kenrippy]

Originally posted by: yodayoda
the hot deal was the 2200+ chip and ECS board for $59. it was a thorton chip and all i did was change the FSB from 133 to 166 and now i have a 2800+ chip. runs supercool too. this might be a thorton CPU too!

they had either thortons or t-breds for the same combo price. i grabbed a thorton (this was at the fountain valley location)

 

[NasdaqTrader889]

Nice deal now before the AMD price reductions but now even better. This was an $85 combo just last month becasue I remember wanting to get it for the Thorton CPU. This maybe the price point that gets me to buy this time around.

 

[bob92]

$69.99 in Phoenix. I got a Thorton chip--running the XP installer as we speak.

Great timing, as my old ECS mobo (from a previous Fry's deal) crapped out on Thursday.

 

[Tung]

Originally posted by: kenrippy

Originally posted by: yodayoda
the hot deal was the 2200+ chip and ECS board for $59. it was a thorton chip and all i did was change the FSB from 133 to 166 and now i have a 2800+ chip. runs supercool too. this might be a thorton CPU too!

they had either thortons or t-breds for the same combo price. i grabbed a thorton (this was at the fountain valley location)

i got a tbred at fountain valley should i go back and ask for an exchange?

 

[kenrippy]

Originally posted by: Tung

Originally posted by: kenrippy

Originally posted by: yodayoda
the hot deal was the 2200+ chip and ECS board for $59. it was a thorton chip and all i did was change the FSB from 133 to 166 and now i have a 2800+ chip. runs supercool too. this might be a thorton CPU too!

they had either thortons or t-breds for the same combo price. i grabbed a thorton (this was at the fountain valley location)

i got a tbred at fountain valley should i go back and ask for an exchange?

you could at least try. make sure they have them in stock before you return though. don't try for an exchange, they get pissy when you try to do that and won't be very helpful. do a full return if they have a thorton and another un-returned board.

 

[dr150]

I got a blue screen trying after the starting opening boot screen with this combo. WTF?!

Are these combos known to have issues? It should work with my old POS HDs with XP from my last desktop!

WTF?...

 

[mercuryswitch]

whats up with your computer? fine for me! my system's been running stable since black friday.

yes, should work with your old hd.
set your frequency jumpers correctly.

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: mercuryswitch
whats up with your computer? fine for me! my system's been running stable since black friday.

yes, should work with your old hd.
set your frequency jumpers correctly.

whelp, the jumpers are set at 133 mhz for the athlon 2400+. it reads correctly when turned on....then the dreaded blue screen after a while.

ECS doesn't seem to have the best of reputations. I'm frazzled!

 

[whiteboy81]

I got the combo with the 2500+ last week, everything went great with the install. Used DDR3200 and clocked the FSB to 166...now I've got a 3200+ chip. It's awesome.

 

[Odeen]

Originally posted by: dr150
I got a blue screen trying after the starting opening boot screen with this combo. WTF?!

Are these combos known to have issues? It should work with my old POS HDs with XP from my last desktop!

WTF?...

You can't flip motherboards from under an XP install. You're getting a blue screen because it's trying to boot using a specific IDE chipset driver (say, Intel ICH4) and now all of the sudden there is no ICH4 IDE, but there's Via VT8233 IDE. Windows can't both boot and install new drivers at the same time - it has to boot from a known device first, and then it can detect new devices.

Not formatting and reinstalling after a mobo flip is just asking for hardware conflicts (Due to differences in how Windows detects devices, and how different motherboards assign IRQ's). Say, you have a sound card on IRQ10 and a video card on IRQ11 on your old board, and the new board assigns IRQ9 and IRQ5, respectively. XP is liable to detect some "copies" of devices (i.e. you have this "new" device, but it doesn't know that the old device is gone), and with incorrect chipset drivers performance, memory bandwidth, even your video card speed will suffer.

With XP, we first witnessed it with the updated memory controller on the i845G and above chipsets. People were getting markedly better benchmarks after installing chipset drivers, because they taught XP how to utilize the memory controller better. With the WRONG drivers, XP will not perform optimally at all

So, back up your /documents and settings folder, then nuke and pave. Install XP, install Via Hyperions, LAN drivers if necessary, run Windows Update, install DX9, video card drivers, and drivers for everything else, as necessary. Then enjoy

 

[dr150]

MANY thanks Odeen for the lesson.

You were spot-on right!