Free OCz High Performance RAM or High End Motherboard

[Googer]

Get your Choice of free 1GB of OCz Enhanced Latency RAM or one of the following motherboards

(Free with the Purchase of Select AMD CPU's.)

OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model OCZ4001024ELDCPE-K - Retail

MSI K8N Diamond Plus Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103527

 

[Googer]

 

[Powermoloch]

kinda expensive .... the A64 FX

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
kinda expensive .... the A64 FX

The price of the FX at newegg.com is about the same price as the competition including Provantage.com and Zipzoomfly.com but they do not give you a free GB of RAM and Zipzoomfly sells the Clawhammer not the San Diego version for the same price.

http://www.provantage.com/amd-adafx55bnbox~7AAMD19T.htm
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe...sp?ProductCode=80723-R&affiliate=yahoo

 

[Extelleron]

Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

That would be great if you are into overclocking and using budget components. But dont be a moron and spend an extra $611 on faster ram, a more expensive motehrboard , exotic cooling, and other fancy tricks to make that happen, because you would have been better off buying the FX-55 and a cheap motherboard in the first place.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

That would be great if you are into overclocking and using budget components. But dont be a moron and spend an extra $611 on faster ram, a more expensive motehrboard , exotic cooling, and other fancy tricks to make that happen, because you would have been better off buying the FX-55 and a cheap motherboard in the first place.

overclocking is like hobby to some...

 

[Extelleron]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

That would be great if you are into overclocking and using budget components. But dont be a moron and spend an extra $611 on faster ram, a more expensive motehrboard , exotic cooling, and other fancy tricks to make that happen, because you would have been better off buying the FX-55 and a cheap motherboard in the first place.

With some half-way decent RAM, good knowledge, and a decent $40-50 heatsink, an Opteron 144 ($196 on www.newegg.com) can easily OC to 2.6 GHz.

 

[sellmen]

Why would anyone waste $800 on a single core CPU now?

 

[Hummin]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

That would be great if you are into overclocking and using budget components. But dont be a moron and spend an extra $611 on faster ram, a more expensive motehrboard , exotic cooling, and other fancy tricks to make that happen, because you would have been better off buying the FX-55 and a cheap motherboard in the first place.

So I suppose I'm a moron using my Opteron 144 running completely stable @ 2.7GHz with my budget component Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (wait, it's just like the "free A8N-SLI Premium they're giving away.....hmmmmm), my ultra-budget Corsair XMS RAM (same timings as the OCZ RAM, but I got 2GB for just a little more than the price the OCZ is going for), and that oh-so-exotic and expensive Thermalright XP-90 cooling solution ......... yep, I sure wasted my money and saving that $400 or so sure was a waste of time.........LOL!

Honestly, if you're in the market for an FX-55, this may be a deal.....but calling people morons to justify anything is, well, moronic.

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Originally posted by: Hummin

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Good deal, but why would anyone waste $811 on an FX55 when you can get an Opteron for $200 or so and OC it to FX-57 levels?

That would be great if you are into overclocking and using budget components. But dont be a moron and spend an extra $611 on faster ram, a more expensive motehrboard , exotic cooling, and other fancy tricks to make that happen, because you would have been better off buying the FX-55 and a cheap motherboard in the first place.

So I suppose I'm a moron.

Fixed.

 

[trexmgd]

Why don't you change the title to "with A64 FX55 purchase"? Saying with AMD purchase is just fishing.

 

[JasonCoder]

Yeah, the AMD purchase thing has to go... put FX in the title. I feel vaguely disappointed having read this post.

 

[Avalon]

Pair it with the Asus A8N-SLI and sell it on eBay. You're bound to make $50.
For those actually willing to purchase this CPU...getting a free $150-$200 motherboard is actually amazingly hot, IMO.