BA Fry's Boxed XP2500+ (Barton) & KT600 mobo $60

[Praxis]

August 3rd & 4th at Bay Area Fry's they are ]hawking the boxed Athlon XP2500+ CPU and a VIA KT600 board for $59.99.

The boxed CPU comes with a reasonably quiet fan & a 3 year warranty. I believe all 2500+ processors are Bartons.

The board is almost certainly by ECS, which has never been a by-word for high quality, but VIA has been making the KT series for a long time, so hopefully most of the teething problems are worked out. The board has onboard Serial ATA, 6 channel sound, and of course LAN & USB 2.0.

Fry's is generally pretty good about keeping its sale items in stock, but I understand this may not be available in San Jose.

Am I the only one, or are other people having trouble posting to this forum using Mozilla or Firewhatever, even with the popup manager disabled?

 

[usernamemax20charact]

That's a pretty good price. An OEM 2500+ Barton runs about $80 right now. And a retail version is ~ $85. Just sell the mobo or something and pick up a better one.

 

[kof]

Originally posted by: Praxis
August 3rd &amp; 4th at Bay Area Fry's they are ]hawking <snip>
Am I the only one, or are other people having trouble posting to this forum using Mozilla or Firewhatever, even with the popup manager disabled?

Nope Ff0.9.2

 

[pxc]

LA/OC has the boxed 2200+ (ad says bare?) and cheap motherboard for $49. I picked one up this afternoon.

 

[AkumaX]

don't forget:

If you would like to purchase products over the telephone using the Telesales office at the Sunnyvale store, please call the Sunnyvale store at (408) 617-1300 and ask to speak to the Telesales department.

 

[YoYoBabyYo]

does a bare cpu sold by frys come with any warranty?

 

[pxc]

Originally posted by: YoYoBabyYo
does a bare cpu sold by frys come with any warranty?

1 year warranty through fry's. And if you have buyer's protection on your credit card, that makes it two years.

 

[KEV1N]

CPU is $80 alone at newegg.

 

[Tsunami982]

does anyone know if this deal is available in SD/SM fry's?

 

[russw]

Thanks for post. As already mentioned, the SoCal area ad has a different item. I wonder if our local stores would "honor" (in quotes because we're talking about Fry's here) an out of area ad?

...russ

 

[SSibalNom]

Originally posted by: kof

Originally posted by: Praxis
August 3rd &amp; 4th at Bay Area Fry's they are ]hawking <snip>
Am I the only one, or are other people having trouble posting to this forum using Mozilla or Firewhatever, even with the popup manager disabled?

Nope Ff0.9.2

 

[multifacitedonyx]

Originally posted by: pxc
LA/OC has the boxed 2200+ (ad says bare?) and cheap motherboard for $49. I picked one up this afternoon.

What was the mobo that this combo came with? I hear it was a PC chips, but do not know the chip set. Can you give me a model number or anything?

Thanks for any help.

 

[fatBrain]

I was lucky getting the last one at Fremont Fry''s around 6:30pm. The code is KQYHA, week 0416. Is this batch good?

Dislike the motherboard though. Thinking about what i gonna do with it. Thanks for headup.

 

[lordbob99]

Any confirmation for which MB this is and if it's any good?

 

[Braxus]

The board it comes with is the ECS KT600-A

Spec wise it's alright. You should be able to hit 3200+ easy with using the 400FSB so ocing with this board should be ok. Not the greatest but good. Supports SATA/RAID 0/1. Onboard audio is "decent". Has an Ethernet port. For what you pay for, you're getting a pretty good board. Only qualms I have about this board is that the NB HSF is a passive one. Gets pretty hot even under idle conditions.

Granted, ECS boards aren't the best, but if you're looking for a no-frills board, you can't go wrong here.

 

[multifacitedonyx]

What is the deal with this board "supporting sempron"? Fry's is not going to try and slip a sempron chip in with this combo are they? That would be a little sleezy.

 

[bupkus]

Is this board better than ECS's K7VTA3?
Are we sure that is a barton? I don't see any mention of it on the ad.

Edit: Not available today in the Phx area. Perhaps tomorrow.

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: pxc
LA/OC has the boxed 2200+ (ad says bare?) and cheap motherboard for $49. I picked one up this afternoon.

Could someone please decipher this for me?

 

[ECartman]

Originally posted by: bupkus

Originally posted by: pxc
LA/OC has the boxed 2200+ (ad says bare?) and cheap motherboard for $49. I picked one up this afternoon.

Could someone please decipher this for me?

What he's saying is that Fry's also has (in his case in the Los Angeles / Orange County area) a motherboard and AMD 2200+ combo for $49. (on sale Wed and Thurs). He is hinting that though the ad says you only get the bare CPU (no heatsink or fan included) and the motherboard, they in fact sold him a boxed version which usually includes the heatsink and fan and includes a longer warranty.

This deal is also available in NorCal at the Sacramento Frys and the Concord Frys. Not sure about other bay area locations.

 

[multifacitedonyx]

Originally posted by: bupkus

Are we sure that is a barton? .

After seeing that notice on sempron, I called and they told me it was a Barton. It would be suck if it was sempron. Basically a Duron.

 

[Braxus]

Originally posted by: multifacitedonyx

After seeing that notice on sempron, I called and they told me it was a Barton. It would be suck if it was sempron. Basically a Duron.

If you looked at the pic closer, that's just the link to the manufacturer website for the board. The "Sempron" pic is just stating that it'll support the microcode of the upcomming Sempron chips.

 

[multifacitedonyx]

Originally posted by: Braxus

Originally posted by: multifacitedonyx

After seeing that notice on sempron, I called and they told me it was a Barton. It would be suck if it was sempron. Basically a Duron.

If you looked at the pic closer, that's just the link to the manufacturer website for the board. The "Sempron" pic is just stating that it'll support the microcode of the upcomming Sempron chips.

I realize that, but because the mobo does support the sempron, and the ad does not specify "barton" and it is such a low cost, and it is Fry's I thought there was the POSSIBILITY that it might be a sempron, not a barton.

I think one would have to admit, AMD really confused things by giving similar code names. An extreme example is the 2800+ . Just knowing it is a 2800+ tells one very little. It could be a socket A Sempron 2800+, a Athlon XP "barton" 2800+, a 754 sempron 2800+ or an AMD64 2800+. see AMD's sempron FAQ here; https://http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_861_11546%7E88040,00.html

Sorry about the lack of a link, but it kept taking me to Microsoft. I loaned my brain out tonight.

 

[bupkus]

Of all these cpu/mobo combos offered by Fry's, do they ever ofer a microATX mobo?

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: bupkus
Of all these cpu/mobo combos offered by Fry's, do they ever ofer a microATX mobo?

That I've seen, no, they don't offer microATX boards in their combos. P

Personally, I've had good experiences w/ the ECS K7VTA3 v8.0 mobo. I've built several PC's for friends and family that keep chugging along using Fry's cpu/mobo deals. Not too sure about this KT600 mobo, might just have to pick one up and see how it goes. Not a bad deal though.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Trey22

Originally posted by: bupkus
Of all these cpu/mobo combos offered by Fry's, do they ever ofer a microATX mobo?

That I've seen, no, they don't offer microATX boards in their combos. P

Personally, I've had good experiences w/ the ECS K7VTA3 v8.0 mobo. I've built several PC's for friends and family that keep chugging along using Fry's cpu/mobo deals. Not too sure about this KT600 mobo, might just have to pick one up and see how it goes. Not a bad deal though.

i have pc2100 memory. i think the k7vta3 supports it.

do you know if pc2100 will work in the kt600 mobo?