AMD Athlon 2500+ & ECS N2U400-A $70 @ Fry's

[EagleKeeper]

The orginal deal has expired. Pay attention to posts regarding Fry's each week. Combo deals are rotated in slightly different combinations all the time.

 

[jineshjain]

Thanks. But my question still remains unanswered. How can I buy something from Fry's sinc I do not have a B&M Fry's store close to me?

 

[blacklit]

Originally posted by: jineshjain
Thanks. But my question still remains unanswered. How can I buy something from Fry's sinc I do not have a B&M Fry's store close to me?

aww, that's cute :heart:


try outpost.com. if you don't find it there, you're S.O. of L. (pm me if you need to know what this means... oh, and i hope you know what PM stands for). you can also try the For Sale/Trade forums. another kind AT'er (know that one?) might be willing to help.

i think you'll really like this forum, there are so many nice people willing to help... everyone really.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: blacklit

Originally posted by: jineshjain
Thanks. But my question still remains unanswered. How can I buy something from Fry's sinc I do not have a B&M Fry's store close to me?

aww, that's cute :heart:


try outpost.com. if you don't find it there, you're S.O. of L. (pm me if you need to know what this means... oh, and i hope you know what PM stands for). you can also try the For Sale/Trade forums. another kind AT'er (know that one?) might be willing to help.

i think you'll really like this forum, there are so many nice people willing to help... everyone really.

Outpost.com may not always have the sales that are posted in the flyers.

As stated before, you are SOL unless you either drive to the nearest one (1 day based on your profile) or find someone who has a Fry's near them and it willing to help you get the deal that you want
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You may want to monitor your PMs in case others have suggest

 

[Granorense]

My brother is running this board at 190 fsb with Kingston value ram memory (DDR 2700). It has passed all prime95 test for hours and hours now. He got the combo from Frys, ECS NF2 and the barton 2500, pretty sweet I think.

 

[NumbersGuy]

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
I hate FRY"S.
Come to FLORIDA ALREADY.

ditto

 

[FlapJack]

Originally posted by: LIVAN
Is anyone able to get 1gb DDR to work with this mobo? I have tried Infineon, OCZ and no luck, all with very relaxed timings. IT won't even post . The smae memory boots up if I put it in Dimm 1 and Dimm2 (Non Dual Channel) , IF I put in 1 & 3 or 2 & 3, or dual channel configs, it doesn't work.

Yea I have one gig kicking right now 2 Kingston valuran 512's ........ I originaly put it in slots 2-3 as they are both blue and thought that was dual chanel... Was wrong... read the manual and is stated that that is the only way not to have dual chanel... Just changes it and just rebooted...

Evrything seems fine....... how can i verify i am in dual Chanel mode? anyways this rig is running great I love this combo I ran 12hrs of Prime95 at 193fsb no errors

 

[kaborka]

In the Sunday LA Times, the combo is an XP 2600+ and NF2U400 mobo. Link for $85 (thru 6/15). The deal is getting progressively worse!

edit: bare OEM CPU, not boxed.

 

[Granorense]

Originally posted by: kaborka
In the Sunday LA Times, the combo is an XP 2600+ and NF2U400 mobo. Link for $85 (thru 6/15). The deal is getting progressively worse!

It is.

 

[DaCurryman]

Originally posted by: Showtime
You can change the CAS timings in the BIOS (2. 2.5 or 3).

My combo was running fine at 200 FSB (3200+) @ 400 Mhz (DDR 3200) until I lowered the loose timings..... Now no matter what I do I cant get it to boot up right. I reset CMOS and can get the system running but it goes into windows and shuts down. Temps never got hot to the touch so Im assuming the cpu is ok. 14.5k on 3dmark2001 and it came up as an ATHLON 3200+. I should of left it alone... spent hours trying to trouble shoot the damn thing last night.

To oc it originally I just used the available fsb options (100, 133, 166, 200). 133 didnt boot for me so I tried 166 and benchmarked 12.8K 3dmark. Raised it to 200 and it ran without any problems. Not much more heat than earlier. Hopefully I'll be able to get this up and running agian because it was the best $70 upgrade I'd ever made on a rig.

-show

So I have a question about this whole OCing process with the Cosair ValueSelect RAM. I figured I'd get 2 x 256MB instead of 1 x 512MB so I can run it in dual channel. I'm looking on NewEgg and I see two different sticks of Corsair ValueSelect.

256MB CAS 2.5 for $46
256MB CAS 3 for $57

Is there a reason the higher CAS stick costs more at 256MB? The difference is much smaller at 512MB.

512MB CAS 2.5 for $85
512MB CAS 3 for $84

OK, so now with all that, what do you all feel is the best selection? 512MB of CAS 2.5 for $85 (single channel), 512MB of CAS 3 for $84 (single channel), or 2 x 256MB of CAS 2.5 for $46 each (dual channel). I'd like this to run at 200fsb.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: kaborka
In the Sunday LA Times, the combo is an XP 2600+ and NF2U400 mobo. Link for $85 (thru 6/15). The deal is getting progressively worse!

edit: bare OEM CPU, not boxed.

Patience Grasshopper - everything works on cycles. Wait for the next holiday.

 

[DaCurryman]

bump for an answer to my question.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: DaCurryman
bump for an answer to my question.

the lower the timings the better ( 2 > 2.5 > 3 )

in terms of ram stability, i've seen people o/c pc2100/pc2700 and run it @ pc3200 speeds only if they change their timings to 3-4-4-8 or something like that. if you could, the best performance you could get from your ram would be 2-2-2-5

i'd get the 2 x 256 cas 2.5 @ 200mhz (pc3200). doesn't say what the rest of the timings are (whether is 2.5-3-3-7 or like 2.5-3-2-6)

 

[Chopstick217]

I also have it running at 200 fsb. I was wondering if the Mhz for the pci and agp slots will chnage if the fsb is set to 200.

 

[WallStreet]

For those running at 200MHz FSB, did you try running Prime95? I ran it and it failed with a rounding error within 1.5 hours or so. I then switched to 166MHz FSB and it ran for over 12 hours with no errors.

I am running 1 PC3200 512MB DIMM. I believe the memory speed was 200MHz in both runs.

Thanks.

 

[SimMike2]

Originally posted by: WallStreet
For those running at 200MHz FSB, did you try running Prime95? I ran it and it failed with a rounding error within 1.5 hours or so. I then switched to 166MHz FSB and it ran for over 12 hours with no errors.

I am running 1 PC3200 512MB DIMM. I believe the memory speed was 200MHz in both runs.

Thanks.

While I like Prime 95 to run forever without errors, getting 1.5 hours is still pretty good. You have to remember Prime95 is pedal to the metal processing. Most people won't do this kind of processing for hours on end.

Where you know you have issues is if Prime 95 crashes within seconds, or within 15 minutes.

 

[WallStreet]

Originally posted by: SimMike2

Originally posted by: WallStreet
For those running at 200MHz FSB, did you try running Prime95? I ran it and it failed with a rounding error within 1.5 hours or so. I then switched to 166MHz FSB and it ran for over 12 hours with no errors.

I am running 1 PC3200 512MB DIMM. I believe the memory speed was 200MHz in both runs.

Thanks.

While I like Prime 95 to run forever without errors, getting 1.5 hours is still pretty good. You have to remember Prime95 is pedal to the metal processing. Most people won't do this kind of processing for hours on end.

Where you know you have issues is if Prime 95 crashes within seconds, or within 15 minutes.

Well if the condition causing Prime95 to fail occurs in a normal application, you can get data corruption, etc. I wouldn't feel safe running a system that I know fails Prime95 in just 1 hour or so. The failure did not seem to be heat-induced so it would appear the CPU I got has some paths that cannot meet the 2.2GHz speed (11x200).

I've been able to run Prime95 for 10+ hours with the CPU and memory at 190MHz (1:1). I guess that's around a 3000+ rating or so. An awesome deal for $70

 

[silverbullet555]

Showtime,

you mentioned that you got the header cables crossed. In particular, what was crossed. Maybe that is what is leading to my problems. I cannot get the system to post. Get the lights, fans, etc, but no post and no video signal.

System details:

I'm running this mobo, an XP 2600, MSI Starforce GeForce 2 GTX video card, 1 stick of 512mb PC 3200 by corsair and a new 380w powersupplyby Antec. I have both the ATX 1 and 2 plugs in, tried the ram in slot 1 and slot 3, tried resetting the CMOS and still no post. The instruction manual that came with the card has the pin #'s for the cmos jumper different than the instruction manual that I downloaded on-line. Tried it both ways, but still nothing. I have built several other systems with no problems. Any help would be appreciated as it is getting very frustrating.

 

[DaCurryman]

Can anyone help me? I have no idea what I'm doing on this OC project. I currently have the following stick of ram in the first DIMM slot.

Crucial 512MB PC3200

It's CAS 3 and ECC...I don't know how good or bad that makes it for OCing it.

I tried setting the Bios to 200MHz, but it wouldnt boot quite properly (Disk 6 of the Windows XP Pro BootDisks would crash the system with the lovely Blue Sceen of Death).

I don't know what the norm is, so I'm running it at 100MHz for now (which was the default) while I install Windows. I'm hoping I can somehow get this thing up and running.

I tried setting the BIOS to Expert so I could adjust the timings, but the truth is I have no idea what I'm doing and no idea what to set the timings to, so I'm not gonna mess with that till someone here can possibly help me. Please help me. This was supposed to be a father's day gift for my dad, but I'd like it to be running nice and right before I give it to him.

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[big4x4]

I got this combo but I cannot oc it to 200 fsb. My board undervolts pretty badly (1.63 vcore) which might be causing the problem. I cannot loop 3dmark at 200 fsb but I can boot into windows just fine. Anyone have any suggestions to reach 2.2 ghz?

 

[LIVAN]

I got this combo and I am now runing 200x11 , also got the KBYTE memory from Fry's, 1gb for $160 after rebate, at cas 2.5 at 200mhz. Prime 95 for over 13 hours Blend test.

Not bad.

 

[Showtime]

sb555,

I had my power and hdd cables x'd. The ones for the front panel power switch and activity lights. To reset CMOS i just followed what the manual said and unplugged the power. I turned to power switch on an off to try to bleed any power left in the ps. I'm not sure if it makes a difference (battery stays put), but it worked to reset CMOS.

Good luck,

-show

 

[scooper]

Got the 2500+/n2u400-a combo for $75 at the Campbell store. I can boot W2K at 200fsb, runs Sandra and PCMark fine, but QIII crashes/freezes/bluescreens in short order. 42C max with the SilentBoost.

Could this be due to my PC2100 memory (1x512 Kingston Valueram 2.5CL)? I've selected 133MHz memory clock and 2.5CL - not sure what the other memory timings should be even after looking at Kingston's data sheet. This is my first OC, any suggestions?

--scott

 

[ZoNtO]

Nice post and prices. I wish Fry's wasn't downtown and/or I wasn't ordering an A64! g2 love working retail!

 

[Robzila]

you need pc3200 memory in order to run that combo as it should be run...not to mention a decent heatsink...