Friday Fry's CPU/Mobo Combo Deals

AkumaX

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Intel Pentium 4 505J (2.66ghz) w/ Motherboard (probably ECS) $129
- Retail Box (with HSF + 3yr)
- 1MB L2 (Prescott no HT)
- Intel 848P (533mhz fsb)
- Socket 775 (uses AGP, DDR1)

Intel Pentium 4 D 830 (2 x 3.0ghz) w/ Giga-byte GA-8I945P-G $449
- I think its Retail Box (with HSF + 3 yr)
- 2 x 1MB L2 (Prescott no HT)
- Intel 945P (800mhz fsb)
- Socket 775 (PCI-E, DDR2, SATA II, Intel HD audio)

Intel Celeron 2.6ghz + Motherboard (probably ECS) $69
- Doesn't say if its Retail Box or OEM
- Says nothing about Cache Size or FSB
- Says nothing about Chipset
- Socket 478 (uses AGP, probably uses DDR1)

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (2.0ghz) + Abit KV8 Pro $199
- Doesn't say if its Retail Box or OEM
- Probably a Newcastle 512kb L2
- VIA K8T800 Pro
- Socket 754 (AGP, SATA/RAID, Gigabit Lan, uGuru, DEP)


Honorable Mentions:
-You're gonna need ram, so OCZ 1gb (2x512mb) for $90 - $35 rebate = $54 isn't so bad
-You're gonna need a HDD, and the Seagate 200gb ($109 - $60 rebate) = $49 (at about $0.25/gig isn't bad either
 

gujuguy007

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as of 11:30 AM central time, the website crashed...has been down for 20 mins...they must be getting hit hard.
 

raftman

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Originally posted by: AkumaX
Originally posted by: Harvey
Well above honorable is 512 MB PNY PC3200 for $19.99 after MIR. :cool:

yeah i was gonna put that.. but most people need 2x512mb (dual channel) and OCZ's states that its LL. also, its probably gonna be 1 rebate per household unless you got 2 houses :p



are you saying that the OCZ is dual channel ddr? I thought 2x512 just meant it was 2 sticks, but that the bandwidth was still 3.2 GB/s.

There is also 1 GB (1x1 GB) PQI PC3200 on sale at frys for $89.99 - 30 MIR. I just looked at the PQI RAM and the package says it's 3-4-4-8. Not sure what it is actually capable of though....
 

AkumaX

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Originally posted by: raftman
Originally posted by: AkumaX
Originally posted by: Harvey
Well above honorable is 512 MB PNY PC3200 for $19.99 after MIR. :cool:

yeah i was gonna put that.. but most people need 2x512mb (dual channel) and OCZ's states that its LL. also, its probably gonna be 1 rebate per household unless you got 2 houses :p



are you saying that the OCZ is dual channel ddr? I thought 2x512 just meant it was 2 sticks, but that the bandwidth was still 3.2 GB/s.

There is also 1 GB (1x1 GB) PQI PC3200 on sale at frys for $89.99 - 30 MIR. I just looked at the PQI RAM and the package says it's 3-4-4-8. Not sure what it is actually capable of though....


well yeah, its 2 sticks, but they're matched. it's just better knowing that if you got 2 sticks of the same batch, it'll probably work out better than, lets say getting 2 pny's, and having them w/ different chips

ocz's advertising low latency. ??????????????
 

raftman

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The timings I listed are the the PQI memory on sale, not the 2x512 OCZ. I don't know what the OCZ timings are, but in the ad it just says 'low latency'.

Sure, the 2x512 are a matched pair but that's still different than dual channel memory. given equal timings I would prefer the 1x1GB to the 2x512.
 

AkumaX

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Originally posted by: raftman
The timings I listed are the the PQI memory on sale, not the 2x512 OCZ. I don't know what the OCZ timings are, but in the ad it just says 'low latency'.

Sure, the 2x512 are a matched pair but that's still different than dual channel memory. given equal timings I would prefer the 1x1GB to the 2x512.

i never said that the timings you listed were for OCZ. where did you get that from?

if you had a motherboard that supports dual channel, you should take advantage of that.
yeah, if i had a socket 754 or like an 848p chipset, i'd definitely go 1x1gb. but if you had an nforce2, a socket 939, or any motherboard that supports dual channel, you should at least get dual channel kits to ensure the highest compatibility.

or, if you could afford it, just get 2 x 1gb pqi's. that would work, too!
 

raftman

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Originally posted by: AkumaX

ocz's advertising low latency. ??????????????

I thought that comment was about the timings I had posted, sorry. I thought the memory as well as the motherboard had to support dual channel, I didn't know you could use a kit....

Regardless, if anyone knows what this memory is capable of please let us know...