SMOKING!! 9/1 ONLY Q6600 with ECS for GF7050VT-M $150 in store

[devilchrist]

http://newspaperads.mercurynew...0&subid=23257742&type=

 

[Frintin]

Crazy! Just crazy I tell ya! Gonna be for 9/1/2008 though I think!

 

[devilchrist]

um. ya today is 9/1.. labor day only sale

 

[SunnyD]

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[buzzsaw13]

oh man, they had an E7200+the same board for $99! Sold out incredibly fast though.

 

[solog]

that was in Friday's paper (E7200 combo). I went in today and they still had those in stock (picked one up)

 

[SunnyD]

Oh well, missed out. Love not having Fry's around us.

 

[Ricochet]

I was at the Frys in Renton (WA) around 5pm yesterday so I was too late for the deal. They ran out of the processor. I ended picking up the E7200 + ECS mb $99 combo instead.

 

[ultravista]

I got on this deal in Las Vegas. Also bought a Gigabyte motherboard.

Selling the ECTS, $25 +shipping if anyone wants it. You can pickup if local to Las Vegas. The box has not been opened and has the manufacturers seal.

PM if interested.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: ultravista
I got on this deal in Las Vegas. Also bought a Gigabyte motherboard.

Selling the ECTS, $25 +shipping if anyone wants it. You can pickup if local to Las Vegas. The box has not been opened and has the manufacturers seal.

PM if interested.

Wrong forum. FS/FT is over there -->

 

[BladeVenom]

That sales over. What combo is on sale tomorrow at Fry's?

 

[NasdaqTrader889]

Nice deal even if it was with an ECS mobo. Wonder what type of deals will be had on Black Friday with the Quads.

 

[lazarus000]

To bad they can't put more of these deals online too

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: ultravista
I got on this deal in Las Vegas. Also bought a Gigabyte motherboard.

Selling the ECTS, $25 +shipping if anyone wants it. You can pickup if local to Las Vegas. The box has not been opened and has the manufacturers seal.

PM if interested.

Wrong forum. FS/FT is over there -->

<--- you mean there.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: ultravista
I got on this deal in Las Vegas. Also bought a Gigabyte motherboard.

Selling the ECTS, $25 +shipping if anyone wants it. You can pickup if local to Las Vegas. The box has not been opened and has the manufacturers seal.

PM if interested.

Wrong forum. FS/FT is over there -->

<--- you mean there.

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[GeezerMan]

Anyone know if this ECS board will run with the Q6600? I know, I know, it's not the best board.
ECS does not list the quad core as a compatible CPU, but I seem to recall someone saying it works OK

 

[Rockhound1]

I was able to take advantage of the deal and got one before they sold out. I have the Q6600 running on the ECS 7050VT-M. In fact, I am typing this message on it right now. The board is certainly marginal at best, but I did a little experimenting and was able to overclock the CPU to 3 GHz by raising the FSB to 1333 MHz. Also, the memory runs only in single channel and at a default speed of 667 MHz. I was able to overclock the memory to 800 MHz. The overclocking ran stable, but I set the settings back to their default speed since I am not needing the extra speed at the moment. All overclocking was done through the BIOS, since ECS doesn't have an applications for overclocking in the Windows environment.

Their was a thread talking about this same board and the E7200 for $99.99. People were successfully overclocking that chip on the ECS GF7050VT-M.

I will likely replace the motherboard at some future date, but for now, it will serve its purpose. Buying the CPU for $150 was a really good deal. Getting the ECS thrown in with the deal made it even better. The fact that it will overclock the Q6600 gives me the flexibility to wait for the "right" deal for really good motherboard.

 

[GeezerMan]

Originally posted by: Rockhound1
I was able to take advantage of the deal and got one before they sold out. I have the Q6600 running on the ECS 7050VT-M. In fact, I am typing this message on it right now. The board is certainly marginal at best, but I did a little experimenting and was able to overclock the CPU to 3 GHz by raising the FSB to 1333 MHz. Also, the memory runs only in single channel and at a default speed of 667 MHz. I was able to overclock the memory to 800 MHz. The overclocking ran stable, but I set the settings back to their default speed since I am not needing the extra speed at the moment. All overclocking was done through the BIOS, since ECS doesn't have an applications for overclocking in the Windows environment.

Their was a thread talking about this same board and the E7200 for $99.99. People were successfully overclocking that chip on the ECS GF7050VT-M.

I will likely replace the motherboard at some future date, but for now, it will serve its purpose. Buying the CPU for $150 was a really good deal. Getting the ECS thrown in with the deal made it even better. The fact that it will overclock the Q6600 gives me the flexibility to wait for the "right" deal for really good motherboard.

Thanks for your post my man. My main rig is a Q6600 and a Abit IP35 pro, which I love. Looks like I'll build this Q6600 for a buddy who wants an economical build. We won't care about overclocking at all, so it should work fine. Odd about the memory running in single channel. I can't imagine any current board not running dual channel memory.

 

[jiffer]

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Anyone know if this ECS board will run with the Q6600? I know, I know, it's not the best board.
ECS does not list the quad core as a compatible CPU, but I seem to recall someone saying it works OK

The Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 stepping) is on the CPU support list. So is the Q6700 and the Q9450:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSi...ID=1&MenuID=69&LanID=0

Personally, I think a Core 2 Duo E7200 or a Celeron 4xx is the best processor to run on this motherboard. You're not going to put any stress on the voltage regulators with a chip like that, and you don't need a 500W power supply. (An EarthWatts 380W works great if you have a GeForce 8800GS video card.)

It's not a bad motherboard at all. It doesn't have many overclocking options, but ECS did a great job of overcoming the limitations of the NVidia chipset. I just wish it had a parallel port (or parallel port header) and drivers for Windows 2000. (That's what makes the ECS G31T-M more attractive to me, but the GF7050VT-M overclocks a lot better.)

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Odd about the memory running in single channel. I can't imagine any current board not running dual channel memory.

Don't blame ECS; blame NVidia. Their chipsets for Intel processors only support single channel memory, and there's nothing ECS (or any other motherboard manufacturer) can do about it.

 

[GeezerMan]

Originally posted by: jiffer

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Anyone know if this ECS board will run with the Q6600? I know, I know, it's not the best board.
ECS does not list the quad core as a compatible CPU, but I seem to recall someone saying it works OK

The Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 stepping) is on the CPU support list. So is the Q6700 and the Q9450:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSi...ID=1&MenuID=69&LanID=0

Personally, I think a Core 2 Duo E7200 or a Celeron 4xx is the best processor to run on this motherboard. You're not going to put any stress on the voltage regulators with a chip like that, and you don't need a 500W power supply. (An EarthWatts 380W works great if you have a GeForce 8800GS video card.)

It's not a bad motherboard at all. It doesn't have many overclocking options, but ECS did a great job of overcoming the limitations of the NVidia chipset. I just wish it had a parallel port (or parallel port header) and drivers for Windows 2000. (That's what makes the ECS G31T-M more attractive to me, but the GF7050VT-M overclocks a lot better.)

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Odd about the memory running in single channel. I can't imagine any current board not running dual channel memory.

Don't blame ECS; blame NVidia. Their chipsets for Intel processors only support single channel memory, and there's nothing ECS (or any other motherboard manufacturer) can do about it.

Yeah, I found their CPU support list last night. Their spec web page for the board does says Core 2 Duo, but not the Core 2 quad. You have to go to their CPU support page. They need to update their web page for the actual board.

 

[jrichrds]

The GF7050VT-M is a solid budget board. It has options for BSEL Select as well as fine-tune control in 1Mhz steps for FSB and memory. And manual control of memory timings and voltage up to 2.0v. It'll overclock your CPU as high as it will go on stock voltage and your memory as high as it will go up to 2.0v. I've taken my E7200 over 3.3Ghz and my DDR2-800 memory over 920Mhz with this board.

For the voltage-regulating caps, it uses Sanyo, TK, UCC, and solid-state. All high quality manufacturers. The rest of the caps littered around the expansion slots are OST and the like (more in line with what you'd expect on a budget board).

It does lack dual channel support (which will become noticeable if you're doing video encoding/transcoding, etc.) thanks to the nVidia chipset. Nvidia does have a newer Intel chipset with dual-channel support, but it'll probably be a while before it makes its way to a Fry's ECS combo.

And I've found that the C1E support is not working on this board. Nevertheless, my E7200 system with this combo idles at less than 40W.

Overall, this is perhaps the best ECS board I've come upon in a Fry's combo.

 

[GeezerMan]

Originally posted by: jrichrds
The GF7050VT-M is a solid budget board. It has options for BSEL Select as well as fine-tune control in 1Mhz steps for FSB and memory. And manual control of memory timings and voltage up to 2.0v. It'll overclock your CPU as high as it will go on stock voltage and your memory as high as it will go up to 2.0v. I've taken my E7200 over 3.3Ghz and my DDR2-800 memory over 920Mhz with this board.

For the voltage-regulating caps, it uses Sanyo, TK, UCC, and solid-state. All high quality manufacturers. The rest of the caps littered around the expansion slots are OCZ and the like (more in line with what you'd expect on a budget board).

It does lack dual channel support (which will become noticeable if you're doing video encoding/transcoding, etc.) thanks to the nVidia chipset. They do have a newer Intel chipset with dual-channel support, but it'll probably be a while before it makes its way to a Fry's ECS combo.

And I've found that the C1E support is not working on this board. Nevertheless, my E7200 system with this combo idles at less than 40W.

Overall, this is perhaps the best ECS board I've come upon in a Fry's combo.

Any idea what the performance hit is for NOT having dual channel memory support?
Maybe 3 to 4% ?

 

[jrichrds]

Originally posted by: GeezerMan

Originally posted by: jrichrds
The GF7050VT-M is a solid budget board. It has options for BSEL Select as well as fine-tune control in 1Mhz steps for FSB and memory. And manual control of memory timings and voltage up to 2.0v. It'll overclock your CPU as high as it will go on stock voltage and your memory as high as it will go up to 2.0v. I've taken my E7200 over 3.3Ghz and my DDR2-800 memory over 920Mhz with this board.

For the voltage-regulating caps, it uses Sanyo, TK, UCC, and solid-state. All high quality manufacturers. The rest of the caps littered around the expansion slots are OCZ and the like (more in line with what you'd expect on a budget board).

It does lack dual channel support (which will become noticeable if you're doing video encoding/transcoding, etc.) thanks to the nVidia chipset. They do have a newer Intel chipset with dual-channel support, but it'll probably be a while before it makes its way to a Fry's ECS combo.

And I've found that the C1E support is not working on this board. Nevertheless, my E7200 system with this combo idles at less than 40W.

Overall, this is perhaps the best ECS board I've come upon in a Fry's combo.

Any idea what the performance hit is for NOT having dual channel memory support?
Maybe 3 to 4% ?

Depends on what you're doing. In general use, the difference is negligable. If you're doing something like video encoding in which memory bandwidth becomes a bottleneck, the difference would be noticeable...potentially more than 10%.

Some corrections to my previous post: "the rest of the caps" are OST, not OCZ. And by "They do have a newer Intel chipset with dual-channel support," I was referring to nVidia and their MCP7A MCP.

 

[GeezerMan]

I was just reading a comment on the web regarding performance difference between single and dual channel with DDR ram.
This dude said that CAS latency has a bigger impact on performance than if it supports dual channel. Interesting stuff.

 

[edplayer]

You read that on the web!

Maybe dude has some links to test results or something?