[Pc_Support] Lov'n Cheap Guys on East Colonial ... S939 A64 3000+ for $119 (yes, not a misprint!)

[Bryan J. Smith]

Now here's the rest of that mainboard+CPU story.

I ran back out to Cheap Guys on East Colonial.  Sure enough,
other than an ATI R480 for $90, they had nothing in a
Socket-754 MicroATX.  They had a Gigabyte GF6100+nF430 in
Socket-939 for $100, but no Socket-754 version.

Now I was fairly certain that the S754 Sempron 64 2800+ I had
was good.  But for the heck of it, I decided to ask what the
cheapest S939 processor was.  I about fell on the floor when
they told me their S939 Athlon 64 3000+ was only $119.99 --
full retail box!

I was dumbfounded.  I could have swore the cheapest prices
I've seen for the S939 A64 was $150+.  So then I figured it
must be one of the new S939 Sempron 64 processors that are
just coming out in HPs and other tier-1 OEMs.  But my shock
was reality -- it was the _full_ S939 A64 3000+ running at
1.8GHz, HT2000 bus, etc...

Now I don't think it's a Rev. E or anything, only SSE2 is
listed in /proc/cpuinfo.  I haven't fully checked.  But with
virtually no one selling a Socket-939 Athlon 64 below $150,
it was quite a steal!  It's almost as if they looked at the
comparable Socket-754 Athlon 64 prices, and applied them to
the Socket-939.

It completely off-set the $25 extra I paid for the
motherboard by going local/retail, and then some.  Very nice
deal indeed.


-- 
Bryan J. Smith  b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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