IT'S BACK! Athlon XP2400+ and ECS Motherboard for $59.99 at Fry's! Deal is over.

[RossMAN]

Is this powerful enough for DiVX encoding?

I want maximum bang for your buck, this will be for an HTPC.

 

[dkellogg3]

Has anyone ever tried to get these deal prices through their Telesales office?

 

[Nomans]

I have the combo AMD XP 2400+ (Thornton boxed) with ECS from Fry's for a couple weeks now. I believe a Thornton CPU is actually a Barton with half of the cache (with 256KB instead of 512 KB) disabled from manufacturer for whatever reasons. I overclock it slightly in ASUS A7N8X, works great.

 

[Granorense]

I am just getting done building a a computer for a my compay with this combo. Like always with this boards, no problems at all. Picked up a pretty cheap XDream II cooler (CoolerMaster) for $15 and it does a pretty nice job.

Nice deal!

 

[bolido2000]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Is this powerful enough for DiVX encoding?

I want maximum bang for your buck, this will be for an HTPC.

Yes, this is good enought for DiVX encoding. At this price you can't complain.

 

[Vic]

Anyone know if this combo is available at the Wilsonville Fry's? I cancelled my subscription to the Oregonian some time ago

 

[CyberTron]

Originally posted by: Harvey
ECS K7VTA3, Rev. 6

ECS K7VTA3, Rev. 8

I'm not seeing any difference here....is anyone else?

 

[RagingBITCH]

4 Ultra DMA connectors as opposed to 2

 

[CyberTron]

damn i hope the board i'm getting is the v8, I had a friend pick it up in palo alto.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Hmm.. So is anybody having any problems getting the CPU & MB to work together? I first bought this combo last week, but I put the 2400+ in my Shuttle AN35 MB, and put my old 1700+ in the ECS. I bought another combo this week to use together, but the MB read the CPU as an 1800+ (100MHz x 15)! I went into the BIOS and saw that the damn thing maxed out at 132MHz! And it wouldn't even boot at that - I had to settle for ~115Mhz x 15, which put it at about 2100+ speeds. Maybe it needs a BIOS update?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Hmm.. So is anybody having any problems getting the CPU & MB to work together? I first bought this combo last week, but I put the 2400+ in my Shuttle AN35 MB, and put my old 1700+ in the ECS. I bought another combo this week to use together, but the MB read the CPU as an 1800+ (100MHz x 15)! I went into the BIOS and saw that the damn thing maxed out at 132MHz! And it wouldn't even boot at that - I had to settle for ~115Mhz x 15, which put it at about 2100+ speeds. Maybe it needs a BIOS update?

RTFM pages 9-10. You need to set the FSB jumper to the proper 133MHz setting.

 

[cKGunslinger]

*forehead smack* Oh yeah! I remember that now! ;-)

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: cKGunslingerMaybe it needs a BIOS update?

ASCII, and you shall RECEIVII:

BIOS for K7VTA3, rev. 6.

BIOS for K7VTA3, rev. 8.

Both are labeled First release, so there's no point in updating it, right now.

Note, the ad says the price was good through yesterday so it's time to move onto the next deal, which is at least as good. RagingBITCH already posted a new thread about this one. XP2600+ and ECS N2U400-A (nForce 2-400) for $69.99.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Still a good deal if you can't get in on the 2600/nForce board

 

[mrrman]

I downloaded the bios from the UK site and it had a 6.0A rev noted. This is a good board for what I am using it for. I have the 2600XP installed,runs great.