Amd 64 3400+ / includes free motherboard $119..Now S939

[Pocono]

DEAD:
I know prices are dropping in a week..but this still seems like good deal for combo:
http://promotions.newegg.com/AMD/AMD_mobo/index.html

New Deal:
http://promotions.newegg.com/AMD/AMD_motherboard/index.html

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[knightc2]

Hmmm. Buy or wait??? Which of these boards is the best in terms of quality and features?

 

[Sonikku]

It's times like this that poor Sonikku wishes he had a crystal ball.

 

[Spikesoldier]

socket 754

ill pass

$104 shipped is mild at best, i would wait a few weeks though

 

[Kavikgold]

i'd wait.. considering the prices that we'll be seeing i wouldn't go with anything less than a 3800+. In terms of performace/price, it takes the cake (according to tomshardware)

 

[astrosfan315]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
socket 754

ill pass

$104 shipped is mild at best, i would wait a few weeks though

they are a64 capable...but AGP and microATX bleh..

 

[DongTran]

So you can use it to knock upside the head with the guy your wife is having an affair with and roll him up in carpet and leave him @ the landfill?

j/k for some reason when i think crystal balls I think richard gere and diane lane

 

[gittyup]

Originally posted by: DongTran
So you can use it to knock upside the head with the guy your wife is having an affair with and roll him up in carpet and leave him @ the landfill?

I think a 2x4 would work better.

 

[AzNpXdD913]

This would be great for a budget build. I bet you can push that 3400+ to at least 2.6ghz.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

So tempting for my college pc..... I really don't want to spend a lot of money and this looks good.

 

[frankqfrank]

Are any of the three board capable of overclocking?

 

[BlueWeasel]

It appears the 3400+ s754 chips from Newegg have the Venice 90nm core. With a good OCing board, those should hit 2.7Ghz easy.

 

[kmmatney]

Socket 754 and AGP, but this is still a really good deal. My 7 year old has a P3 1Ghz + Ti4200 AGP...

 

[jimmybgood]

Originally posted by: knightc2
Hmmm. Buy or wait??? Which of these boards is the best in terms of quality and features?

The PcChips and the Gigabyte are mATX and have cheesy built in video. They don't have an AGP lock, and so, in my limited experience, they complain as soon as you start overclocking them, even with an add on AGP card. Still, they'd be great for grandma. Most people would say stick with Gigabyte.

The Biostar is compact, but still has 5 pci slots. I just got the Grand version (more features), but it should overclock the same. I've boosted my Sempron from 1800 to 2205 Ghz with stock cooling and default voltage. It gives good easy overclocks, but doesn't go far enough for extreme action.

I'm thinking of getting this special and putting the Athlon on the Grand, the Sempron on the NF325-A7 and giving the latter to a mommy who really needs a computer to stay in touch.

 

[Sonikku]

Coming from a Socket A Sempron 2400+. Via VA-20 MOBO, 1 gig of corsair value ram and a AGP 9600XT, would buying this combowith the Gigabyte offer a decent improvment in performance? It's for someones rig who plays world of warcraft and is limted by her cpu, even with a 9600XT.

 

[AzNpXdD913]

It should provide quite a significant performance increase.

See here: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2004....modelx=33&model1=68&model2=85&chart=26

 

[pcmax]

This Gigabyte board is a very solid board but has no Vcore adjustments FYI, just FSB.

 

[LukeMan]

the biostar has the nforce 3 chipset

 

[ellisz]

How much better would this be than a AMD Athlon XP 2600+ running at 2.14 GHZ on a KT266A motherboard?

I need to upgrade bad

 

[will889]

Originally posted by: ellisz
How much better would this be than a AMD Athlon XP 2600+ running at 2.14 GHZ on a KT266A motherboard?

I need to upgrade bad

Tons. A64 3400+ @ 2.6 = trump city.

 

[Sonikku]

Does Socket A Sempron = Athlon XP?

 

[ellisz]

Does Socket A Sempron = Athlon XP?

I have wondered about the Semprons but the XP's were out a few years before the Semprons. The Epox board I have is a socket A board though.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Sonikku
Does Socket A Sempron = Athlon XP?

Pretty much, although, I believe the XP chips performed much better than the sA Semprons because of the larger cache size. Stay away from all the sA Semprons.

 

[jhu]

hey, these would be great for a budget system. i'm thinking about using this to upgrade a dell...

 

[nolovenohope]

Can anyone recommend a cheap heatsink+fan to go along with this bundle?