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Fry's A64 3200+ with mobo... $239.99

Seems alright. The retail A64 3200+ seems to go for about $200 alone. Still, it seems like the more significant thing is that there is an Athlon 64 deal in the first place... I'll hold out awhile longer. Hopefully they'll have these regularly and the price starts going down some...
 
Warm only. The chip is about $200-210. So you're paying $30-40 for the motherboard. I'm never super happy with these mobo bundles from Fry's. In my book, these are only HOT deals if the mobo ends up costing $10 or less over the CPU. There's been a few those at Fry's. Unfortunally I've been missing out of them, or they are freaking Sempron, as this board has educated me, reeks.
 
Hehe, I'm too lazy to run over to fry's and check to see details on this...Of course the person there probably won't even know about the deal and will attempt to sell some ecs mobo. 🙁
 
You can get a socket 939 90nm 3200+ (aka Winchester) for $170 at mwave.com, and a good mobo for less $100 - and your Winchester will run dual channel, and overclock to at least 2.6GHz without any problems, with lower heat and power consumption. So you'd have to be a moron to get this "deal".

Plus you'll end up with good upgrade path for socket 939 CPUs and modern nForce4 chipset.
 
Actually, the ECS mb for the 3.0GHz P4 775 deal looks good. 915 chipset but can use an agp card plus ddr memory so you don't need to buy all new stuff.
 
Thanks for the tip user1234...
BUT it's a p4 maskedavenger. 😛 I want to upgrade from the 2.4 p4 I have right now to something a64 soon...saw this thought I might advertise it. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Computer MAn
Fry's usually only sells ECS boards which are never good.
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thats not necesarily true... if you look at some recent reviews you will see that some newer ecs boards for the athlon 64 bits are actually very good and are in fact preferred over others
 
Originally posted by: user1234
You can get a socket 939 90nm 3200+ (aka Winchester) for $170 at mwave.com, and a good mobo for less $100 - and your Winchester will run dual channel, and overclock to at least 2.6GHz without any problems, with lower heat and power consumption. So you'd have to be a moron to get this "deal".

Plus you'll end up with good upgrade path for socket 939 CPUs and modern nForce4 chipset.
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If you're running at 2.6ghz, your heat and power consumption are going to be higher than a stock 3200+ running at 2.2ghz, you know. Also, since you're running at 2.6ghz, you're not going to have anything worthy to upgrade to...unless the new dual core chips, when they are released, prove to be a nice upgrade. Otherwise, you're going to be getting a new CPU + mobo, and not just a new CPU when you need more power.
 
last week during halloween they had the dfi lanparty and an a64 3000+ for 249.99 which i thought was pretty decent...
 
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