AMD Athlon XP retail CPU.....w/ free shipping

[cheap]

This was a nice deal, unfortunately I'm running opteron 144 which is socket 939. Hope one of the opteron deals like this comes along, I wouldn't mind maxing out my mobo for $15 bucks.

 

[Sk8rdd00]

I picked up the 2800+ while it was still $15. Its replacing a 1700+ Tbred-B I have running at 2600+ in my secondary PC. Hopefully I'll be able to o/c it to 3200+ or more.

Now where are the uber deals for s939 dual core CPU's so I can get rid of this single core s939!

 

[Plugers]

I just got my friend in on one (I got in before the $ increase).

If you go to buy.com You can still get them for $15 ,through zipzoomfly

good luck

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
Where in the world did they find these....?

High up on the shelf in a circuit city somewhere

I lol'd at this.

 

[funboy6942]

I just went to Buy.com and got this for $15 shipped, nice upgrade from my old duron she is using right now.

 

[bigsnyder]

Thanks on the buy.com find!

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Andrew1990
Oh, snap, that 2800 is the Barton Core!

I remember about a month ago these were selling for around $35 shipped used. Twas my first processor I bought, I even played oblivion and BF2 on it.

Hey me too, first build processor. Actually the 2500+. Man was it slow! Especially with Oblivion. Lol. I couldn't OC past 2.2Ghz.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Why in the world would anyone buy one of these chips today? Some sort of misplaced nostalgia for the "good old days"?

There's certainly no technical criterion in which these chips are "better".

 

[blckgrffn]

First "build" - 2500+ bought on launch day, ran at 3000+ its entire life (hopefully still is somewhere, sold it on the forums about three years later...), what a great deal that was...

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: Lanyap
OK, who had these hiding in their closet? I'll have to order a few since I have a few Socket A MBs laying around.

Hmmm, unless damaged by sloppy HSF install/removal, I'd expect the chips to outlive the motherboards. I think I have a good chip in the garage, and two dead boards.

That's been my experience. I have a few Socket A processors, but no more working motherboards for them.

Any Socket A motherboard deals?

 

[brencat]

Originally posted by: Mac
If these were the XP-M Barton's, then I would probably find myself being inexoriably pulled in. In fact, that's what I still run today, an old Asus A7N8X Deluxe with an XP-M 2600 Barton running at 2300MHz. It would probably run faster except the the FSB isn't stable past 185MHz. The mobo is over 5 years old and CPU almost the same. It is still rock solid.

I too still have an old machine that my 5 yr old uses now for web-based educational surfing (PBS, Wordworld, sesame street). Has the Asus A7N8X Deluxe with XP-M 2400+ 1.8ghz CPU running @ 2.23ghz (12 x 186 FSB). You must have the Rev. 1.04 like me -- mine starts to get unstable ~ 188 FSB due to lack of sufficient South Bridge voltage. The Rev 2.0 corrected this problem and could run ~ 230 FSB. I never wanted to bother with the volt-mod for my board though.

Thanks to all who posted in this thread for the memories! Good times, and a great era for OCing

 

[Eric62]

Looking for a socket A mobo deal.
I still use a Shuttle that has a 2800 Barton - works great for basic tasks, and old games...

 

[gba]

Originally posted by: brencat

Originally posted by: Mac
If these were the XP-M Barton's, then I would probably find myself being inexoriably pulled in. In fact, that's what I still run today, an old Asus A7N8X Deluxe with an XP-M 2600 Barton running at 2300MHz. It would probably run faster except the the FSB isn't stable past 185MHz. The mobo is over 5 years old and CPU almost the same. It is still rock solid.

I too still have an old machine that my 5 yr old uses now for web-based educational surfing (PBS, Wordworld, sesame street). Has the Asus A7N8X Deluxe with XP-M 2400+ 1.8ghz CPU running @ 2.23ghz (12 x 186 FSB). You must have the Rev. 1.04 like me -- mine starts to get unstable ~ 188 FSB due to lack of sufficient South Bridge voltage. The Rev 2.0 corrected this problem and could run ~ 230 FSB. I never wanted to bother with the volt-mod for my board though.

Thanks to all who posted in this thread for the memories! Good times, and a great era for OCing

I have enjoyed the nostalgia, too... I raise my cup to the Barton days!

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Why in the world would anyone buy one of these chips today? Some sort of misplaced nostalgia for the "good old days"?

There's certainly no technical criterion in which these chips are "better".

because for $15 i can do some testing on a decent platform due to my find while cleaning out the closet. the barton was an excellent cpu and like psus, many people think they need much more cpu power than they actually do considering the vast majority of people (not here, just in general) just surf the web, read email and may use some type of word processor, all of which would work fine on a p3 or even p2 so in that even eve this would be overkill for that use.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Why in the world would anyone buy one of these chips today? Some sort of misplaced nostalgia for the "good old days"?

There's certainly no technical criterion in which these chips are "better".

Because you can't stick an Athlon64 in a Socket 462 board.

This is nice if you have some old S462 boards lying around without CPUs to go in them, or want to upgrade or replace an AthlonXP in an older rig.

 

[AnandBrowser]

Hmmm. I think all this interest in Socket A boards is finally gonna get me off my @ss and put my old NF7 up on ebay.

 

[DongTran]

a day late and $15 short, the XP2600 and 2800 are $30 on buy.com's website, now

 

[nbarb99]

argh, I saw the lower price on the site today... shoulda pulled the trigger then instead of waiting

 

[fffblackmage]

i wish they had some socket a mobos instead, i still have my barton 2800+, but my shuttle nforce 2 mobo died.

The odd thing is that the mobo stopped working after i tried underclocking/undervolting but not while i had it running at fsb400 up from fsb333. =/

 

[1luckymf]

Up to 49.99 now.....:Q

Got in for a couple at 15.99, Any bets my order gets canceled??

 

[marvdmartian]

Looks like they caught on to the Buy.com difference, and raised those prices too.

 

[gba]

Originally posted by: 1luckymf
Up to 49.99 now.....:Q

Got in for a couple at 15.99, Any bets my order gets canceled??

Ordered one for $14.99 last night from ZZF... just checked, I have a FedEx Ground tracking number.

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: gba

Originally posted by: 1luckymf
Up to 49.99 now.....:Q

Got in for a couple at 15.99, Any bets my order gets canceled??

Ordered one for $15.99 last night from ZZF... just checked, I have a FedEx Ground tracking number.

Mine shipped also. Estimated delivery is Dec. 1st.

Edit: mine were only $14.99

 

[gba]

Oh, must have had a brain cramp.. mine was $14.99, too.

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: waitman

Originally posted by: gba

Originally posted by: 1luckymf
Up to 49.99 now.....:Q

Got in for a couple at 15.99, Any bets my order gets canceled??

Ordered one for $15.99 last night from ZZF... just checked, I have a FedEx Ground tracking number.

Mine shipped also. Estimated delivery is Dec. 1st.

Edit: mine were only $14.99

Ditto. I was honestly surprised when I got the tracking number.