Frys B&M: Pentium D 805 combo ($78.99) or Athlon 64 X2 3800+ combo ($119.99)

[VinceDee]

Which of these would you guys consider to be the better deal? I need to upgrade my wife's home computer and these both look like good little setups at good prices. She only does surfing and wordprocessing, so her existing system would work, but I want to use it as a fulltime folder, too:

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with ECS K8M890-M motherboard, $119.99

Intel Pentium D 805 with ECS P4M800Pro-M v2 motherboard

Vince

 

[13Gigatons]

I would get the x2 since the mobo looks a bit more modern and can probably run vista.

 

[Zim]

Yeah, get the X2. You'll save the difference in price in your first three months of electricity bills... seriously!

 

[Mongals]

Is this B&M only?

 

[VinceDee]

Originally posted by: Mongals
Is this B&M only?

B&M for all I know.

Well, I'm heading out to pick up the X2 on your recommendations.

Thanks for the input,

Vince

 

[rip]

noob Q, is B&M in store only? hec, pick me up one too!

 

[gspyer]

link doesn't work for me

 

[DefDC]

Their mobo/cpu combos are almost always B&M (in-store) only. They sell them as loss-leaders. That's why you can't get them online.

Then again, if you're gonna buy online, aren't you just as likely to add a few more things to your cart? Hmmm....

I wonder if they make 50% of their profits selling sodas at the checkout to the exhausted people who've been wandering the superstores for 3 hours...

 

[Mongals]

Originally posted by: rip
noob Q, is B&M in store only? hec, pick me up one too!

B&M= Brick and mortar, so in store only.

 

[nomadh]

As an add on here. It may depend on if you want to use old ddr memory or video card. I believe the amd is ddr2 only and pci-x. The intel uses either memory and agp. Also Aren't we just comparing a 65watt amd to a 86watt or so 805? That shouldn't be such a big deal. Video card can make a much bigger diff than 20-30 watts.

 

[betasub]

PCI-e (PCI-Express), not PCI-x (PCI-eXtended).

 

[Antikristuseke]

Originally posted by: nomadh
As an add on here. It may depend on if you want to use old ddr memory or video card. I believe the amd is ddr2 only and pci-x. The intel uses either memory and agp. Also Aren't we just comparing a 65watt amd to a 86watt or so 805? That shouldn't be such a big deal. Video card can make a much bigger diff than 20-30 watts.

But you have to take into account that the 805 is the same old crappy netburst architecture we all love to hate. While it has high numbers to fool the masses of peasants the actual performance figures are appaling. They are good overclockers though, but then you would be looking more at something like 110W.