Hot Deal? A Combo, Epox Motherboard and a Athlon 600mhz W/Fan 142.00

[seamonk1]

I bought two thursday from http://www.icompz.com and they arrived yesterday. IMHO its a great deal..now if only they would have thrown in the GFD's.. all for 142.00

Also I noticed they have the Athlon socket A T-Birds 1000mhz for 389.00.. the best price on pricewatch was 409.00


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Seamonk1

 

[zzzz]

any thoghts? good deal??

 

[Kraeji]

how many pci slots does this have?

 

[cdrakejr]

Considering that a Duron 600 and motherboard will cost about $200, this is not a bad deal. Since it is a Slot A set-up, obviously no future upgrades realistically. Would make a good start for an inexpensive basic system.

BxBoards gave the EPOX a good review, ATX with 5 PCI, 1 ISA, 1 AGP, 1 AMR.

Interestingly, you can order the EPOX for $68, then the Athlon 600 for $66 (from their pricewatch listing) = $134 and then add a better heatsink/fan than what they probably provide.

Overall, not a bad deal when you're trying to make every dollar count. Perfect for what my uncle is trying to get me to build for him.

Edit: Resellerratings 5.7/7.0 for IComPZ

 

[goog40]

Good deal, the mobo comes out to around $90 shipped on pricewatch, and teh athlon 600 is listed as $70 shipped.

The Duron 600+mobo combo would come out to $165 shipped on pricewatch.

 

[SimMike2]

We have become pretty darn jaded when we start refering to an Athlon 600 as a &quot;basic inexpensive system.&quot; If this is a basic system, my Mom's Pentium 233 system (which she likes) must be from stone age. I'd be hard pressed to clasify any system over about 400MHz as &quot;basic.&quot;

 

[junthin]

cdrakejr pointed out that it was a &quot;Slot A set-up&quot;, I'm rather uninformed when it comes to motherboards, can someone help me with the reason as to why this is a bad thing? Thanks!

 

[syber321]

AMD's Slot A, like Intel's Slot 1 are old technology now. AMD and Intel both went back to socket processors. It'd be safer then to go w/ the new technology than the older technology. Basically, if you buy a socket system, chances are it'll last you longer than a slot based system.

 

[cdrakejr]

SimMike2,

I agree that many people have the early &quot;slow&quot; processors and that they serve their needs just fine. No one needs 1GHz to run the average home computer programs and surf the web.

But the fact is that the &quot;entry level&quot; today is at least 400MHz, and most introductory systems you'll see advertised are more like 550-600. I just saw on TechBargains where Dell has a Celeron 566 system for $429 and a PIII 733 system for $569, both with free shipping.
18 months ago, I bought a K6-2 400 system for $900 and thought at the time that I had a &quot;hot deal&quot;. What a difference 18 months makes!

I'm afraid that the fact is that if you're buying today, your going to get much more for much less. That doesn't mean your mother should rush out to replace her system but today, no disrespect meant, it is &quot;stone age&quot;. Just as my beloved K6-2 is now at about &quot;Civil War age&quot;.

 

[RoadRuner]

keep in mind, athlons generally require Athlon-approved 300 watt power supplies. the older slot-a's ate a ton more power than the newer socket-a durons and perform slower in most cases.

Even without a GFD, you should be able to FSB clock these to 110 (220 DDR), and run stable.

not a bad deal, not great. Check the warranty on this combo.

 

[errrrr]

A 600 mhz system is &quot;basic&quot; because thats pretty much the slowest speed processor still being made. Duron's slowest speed is 600(they've either stopped making these, or are planning to soon), athlon 550s stopped being made a long time ago as well as p3s near that speed. And there is either very very little or no production at all of 566 celerons. So you could say 600 is bottom of the line bargain basement computer territory. Of course in a few months 1 ghz will be basic too. People who paid top dollar for 1 ghz when it first came out, sure they would never need to upgrade their computer for a long time, will be hella pissed

 

[JoeDaddy]

What makes it so safe to go with the &quot;new&quot; technology? If what I've heard is correct when DDR motherboards come out they will be using a new Althon processor that bumps the FSB from 200 to 266. Which AMD would release a new processor to support that. Does that mean that AMD &quot;has&quot; to continue to make CPU's that aren't compatiable with non-DDR motherboards? I'm sorry but Slot-A was around for a very short time, and if AMD keeps changing things and making stuff incompatiable with each other, then no wonder I'm still buying intel stuff.

 

[seamonk1]

Bought two more. damn for the price these rocks.

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