Retail T-Bird 900 at buy.com for $178

[todays]

The Retail T-Bird 900 is at buy.com for $208. Use the $30 off coupon and there is free shipping for the next few days. That's $178 for a retail bird with 3 year warranty. This is the one you should hit the 1Ghz with. Good deal for retail

 

[coloumb]

location of $30.00 coupon?

 

[iNfOtiK]

try TechBargains.com

 

[neonitto]

Wow, this is a good price. Great to put into my new A7V.

Would I have to get another fan like an orb to overclock to 1GHz, or should the retail fan be good enough?

Slickdeals.net also has a HUGE collection of coupon codes.

 

[Speedy3D!]

Thanks for the deal, that is a sweet price.

 

[Helpless]

Question: The T-Bird is the equivalent to the Athlon, correct? ..and the Duron is like a Celeron for the Intel line, correct? I stopped following chips after my AMD 750 purchase...Lastly, I don;t plan on trading my 750 and KA7 in anytime soon, but what kind socket do these bad boys use?

...wish we could keep the same socket for every new line of chips...blasphemy, I tell ya!

 

[wsmith5]

Just ordered mine! the 700 durons are hot but I want the power and 1 gig o/c ing, now I need a deal on geforce and abit mainboard

 

[stuman74]

I gotta think that the retail t-bird 850 at buy.com for $174.95 BEFORE any coupons is the hottest deal of them all!

 

[Stout]

Just ordered mine. Any idea on good fan deals?

 

[lordofdeath]

i can not find the cpu . can someone post a link for it . I only see amd athlon 900 instead of amd athlon thunderbird 900

 

[Vpham97]

lordofdeath,
You've found the correct item by yourself. It's a 900 Thunderbird. Bought my 800 T/bird from Buy.com 2 months ago. It's a T/bird but the site put a picture of the classic Athlon on it. They don't make classic Athlon in 900 mhz.

AMD ATHLON-900 384K CACHE SOCKA PGA462 TBIRD 200MHZ FSB

Check my signature for overclocking instruction.

 

[Stout]

That's the ONE!

 

[RoadRuner]

just an fyi.

an tbird is roughly equal to a duron +100mhz.

ie tbird 800 just as fast as a duron 900.

the cache of the duron really makes overclocking > 950mhz futile. The percentage gains from the 950-1000mhz on a duron fall off sharply.

so a tbird 900 is actually faster than a duron 1000.

When you clock the tbird up, they usually hit +100mghz, sometimes more.

so think about that when your purchasing your chip.

many 600's reach 950, not many 900's reach 1100 they sort the tbirds alot better at the fab.

 

[rebuilder]

There's not much difference in overclocking potential between the 850 and the 900. They seem to get about the same results on average

overclockers.com cpu database

Does anyone know of any other good cpu databases?

 

[stuman74]

You might as well then get the retail boxed 850 T-bird for $145 after the coupon.

 

[DallasStarsFan]

I just got my Tbird 850 today. I ordered it from buy.com on Friday. I popped it into my AbitKT7-raid and o/c it to 1050 @1.85 core voltage. The idle temperature is 35C and the temperature after running Quake 3 is 43 C.

I am pretty happy with these results. Anyone know how to force the KT7 to go higher than 1.85 core (except waiting for the next bios )

 

[Mustanggt]

Roadrunner let me get this right so if i had a duron 700 overclocked to 1000 MHZ would be same as 900 Tbird. $70 for duron Retail and $180 for Tbird so your paying $110 more for the Tbird to get 100 MHZ more just seems kinda crazy to me??

 

[w3b]

a couple of post before this....

what did mghz stand for? megagigahertz? if that's true then I really should get these Tbirds

 

[Stout]

w3b LOL!

OT: What cooling do you guys recomend for the O/Ced T-Birds? Most effective and least expensive?

 

[tinandrew]

I got this from another site. Props to the person that posted it!
Chrome Orb for $9.00 for your Thunderbird

 

[Stout]

So are the Chrome orbs any good???

 

[ElDiablo]

I think so. My duron temp went from 54-60 c to <48 c at 1.85 volts (1.90 on my kt7). And I didn't have to mod the heatsink at all (i guess you have to with RAID versions??). Hell of a deal at 9 bucks shipped

 

[Stout]

Wonder if it's worth it to pay $20-30 for a better (Alpha, FOP something, etc) and see the difference in cooling?