Blow Out Special WOW, AMD Athlon 1600+CPU OEM - From Newegg! ($54.99!)

[kimber]

Originally posted by: dago10
what is the best fan to use with this cpu?? plan on o/c

Thanks

theres alot of tests on them, do a search.
basicly it comes down to how much you want to spend and what type of motherboard you have(for mounting compatibility).

 

[stevejst]

This your first day dealing with computer hardware? It's a great price, but there is no CPU deal so hot that it won't be repeated soon. Hell, a month from now when Intel drops prices and AMD follows suit, everyone in this thread will be saying "D'oh!! I paid $60 a month ago and now they're $47.50". If you need a CPU now, sure, jump on this, but if you don't need one for a week or two, wait, they'll be cheaper.

Nope. This price is so low you will never see again this low. I bought 5 myself, and then we went again my wife bought 5 on her credit card, now we intend to ask few more friends to buy for us. You missed the point, these are agoiga code that are better than any of the agoiga codes before.

 

[DaveF]

GagHalfrunt, CPU (Newegg) prices never drop as you would expect them to. They seem to keep some inherent value because they get rarer (upgraders?). Tbird and Duron chips seem to find a bottom price and just dissipate to obscurity from there.

A year ago, in August, I bought these CPUs from newegg: $62 950 Tbird; $45 900 Tbird ; $34 750 Duron. Since the new xp+ processors were coming out, prices were suppose to plummet for the old chips.

Now Newegg has 950 Tbirds for $53 and 850 Durons for $34, basically same bottom price, but a little bump in power. Why can't you find $15 700s? All gone?

The 1.2 Tbird (200 MHz) is another story! This pup just doesn't come down in price- weird since xp+ chips are now the same price, if not cheaper.

 

[CartysCrib]

Just picked one up
Thanks for the deal!

 

[RU482]

silly silly me. I just ordered on @$60 shipped from Newegg. Yes, I'm going to unlock this motha!! Gotta use that microscope at work for something!!

This is really silly, cause it's replacing a 1Ghz duron @ 1.33Ghz. Not much of a step up, unless I can really make it into a ~2000+

 

[bigempty]

I just ordered one with the ECS motherboard

Now I just need to pick up a heatsink/fan, video card, and maybe a new power supply and I should be set.

 

[jazziz]

replacing a 1Ghz duron @ 1.33Ghz. Not much of a step up

I would think from Duron to Athlon XP is a pretty good step up.

 

[NYRanger99]

I ordered one with the k7s5a ECS MB and DP5 HS & FAN. I hope i made the right choice on the mb

 

[DEFIANT1]

Originally posted by: bigempty
I just ordered one with the ECS motherboard

Now I just need to pick up a heatsink/fan, video card, and maybe a new power supply and I should be set.

Originally posted by: NYRanger99
I ordered one with the k7s5a ECS MB and DP5 HS & FAN. I hope i made the right choice on the mb

The K7S5A is a good, stable board....with a couple of caveats: They seem to be overly picky about the quality of the power supply. There's been a number of huge threads all over the web about this board, with a lot of heat being heaped on it, due to random failures. A lot of them seemed to surround the fact that many of them seem to have shipped with dead or dying CMOS batteries, or the CMOS jumpers set in the wrong position - all easily correctable stuff if you know what you're doing. The PSU issue though, is a bit tricky, since I've never seen a concise opinion on just "WHAT" exactly constitutes a "good" PSU for these boards. Try it out and see....You'll probably do fine w/the combo. If not, RMA it....Newegg has a pile of these RMA'd boards that they sell off cheap as "refurbished" all the time. The other issue is OC'ing. I haven't kept up with the latest BIOS tweaks for the board, but if memory serves me correctly, the "updated" BIOS only supports a limited range of FSB settings, and not many of them are going to be in the upper ranges of where this CPU will OC to. FWIW, I've built about a half-dozen very stable systems with this board, and so far haven't had a single complaint about them yet.

Good luck!

 

[petejk]

i bought the ecs mobo from newegg...doa....i would spend the extra 30 bucks or so on a shuttle ak31

 

[jna]

Originally posted by: redly1
silly silly me. I just ordered on @$60 shipped from Newegg. Yes, I'm going to unlock this motha!! Gotta use that microscope at work for something!!

This is really silly, cause it's replacing a 1Ghz duron @ 1.33Ghz. Not much of a step up, unless I can really make it into a ~2000+

It's a nice step up. Maybe only 66 mhz in clock speed, but the cache and improved prefetching makes the difference.

 

[Mookie]

$60 shipped, can't beat it with a stick!

 

[Soulcoughy]

Originally posted by: DaveF
GagHalfrunt, CPU (Newegg) prices never drop as you would expect them to. They seem to keep some inherent value because they get rarer (upgraders?). Tbird and Duron chips seem to find a bottom price and just dissipate to obscurity from there.

A year ago, in August, I bought these CPUs from newegg: $62 950 Tbird; $45 900 Tbird ; $34 750 Duron. Since the new xp+ processors were coming out, prices were suppose to plummet for the old chips.

Now Newegg has 950 Tbirds for $53 and 850 Durons for $34, basically same bottom price, but a little bump in power. Why can't you find $15 700s? All gone?

The 1.2 Tbird (200 MHz) is another story! This pup just doesn't come down in price- weird since xp+ chips are now the same price, if not cheaper.

Factory Unlocked? just a thought. i burnt my 1.2 up a few months ago, cpu fan died :-(

 

[dew042]

if you folks actually expect to get the full potential out of agioa you will need a kt333 mb and pc2700 memory - not cheap components... kt266a might work....


mine runs a 171mhz fsb.....

dew.

 

[rodan]

DaveF

A year ago, in August, I bought these CPUs from newegg: $62 950 Tbird; $45 900 Tbird ; $34 750 Duron. Since the new xp+ processors were coming out, prices were suppose to plummet for the old chips.
Now Newegg has 950 Tbirds for $53 and 850 Durons for $34, basically same bottom price, but a little bump in power. Why can't you find $15 700s? All gone?

You are absolutely right, DaveF, I have been wondering the same thing, prices from the retailers drop to just a certain bottom figure, and, that's it, not lower. You can find some individuals willing to sell their AMD Duron for 25.00, without HSF, but, the bottom dollar for a retailer is about thirty something dollars, OEM. Go figure.

 

[kimber]

Originally posted by: dew042
if you folks actually expect to get the full potential out of agioa you will need a kt333 mb and pc2700 memory - not cheap components... kt266a might work....


mine runs a 171mhz fsb.....

dew.

if you run good memory and have one of the descent 266a mb's this chip should work great.even if your mb wont handle that high of a buss(agp) thats what we unlock them for.

 

[Flaredair]

All sold out at Newegg:|

 

[bearauto]

Any word on when the T-Breds are coming out?

 

[BigJ]

To my knowledge, AMD isn't going to produce an 1600+ Tbred (not worth it is what I heard). I heard that they were only producing 1700+ and above Tbreds and that they were just clearing inventory with the 1600+. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (please do correct me, seeing as a 1600+ Tbred would be sweet).

 

[Floydian]

I also noticed the lack in price lowering on the Tbirds, such as the 1.4 ghz Athlon thunderbird, currently, Price:$103. I bought mine last october for 110 dollars shipped, probably the first time I've ever bought a computer component and it hasn't jumped at least 20 dollars down in price a month after I bought it lol

 

[Shinj1EVA]

Back in stock @ Newegg. Free FedEx Saver Shipping

Edit: OK, not nemore.. :frown: I went to look for more items and now there's no more for me *sigh*

 

[stevejst]

I also noticed the lack in price lowering on the Tbirds, such as the 1.4 ghz Athlon thunderbird, currently, Price:$103. I bought mine last october for 110 dollars shipped, probably the first time I've ever bought a computer component and it hasn't jumped at least 20 dollars down in price a month after I bought it lol

That is because they don't make them any more. The price will go down once people get rid of outdated motherboards. So then and now you can get pulls for new and *refurbished*. They come mostly from overclockers because ordinary users will use them longer happily. So what you get is a CPU that has been near thermal breakdown many times.
Think how desirable that is when you are buying a pull CPU.

Just look at the insanity going on with this XP 1600 Agoia. In two months from now these people will be selling the surplus they bought after they were rocking them as much as they could. Then here you'll have some different $60 XP 2100 core stepping stampede again.

Really makes you want to join in the crowd.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: stevejst

I also noticed the lack in price lowering on the Tbirds, such as the 1.4 ghz Athlon thunderbird, currently, Price:$103. I bought mine last october for 110 dollars shipped, probably the first time I've ever bought a computer component and it hasn't jumped at least 20 dollars down in price a month after I bought it lol

That is because they don't make them any more. The price will go down once people get rid of outdated motherboards. So then and now you can get pulls for new and *refurbished*. They come mostly from overclockers because ordinary users will use them longer happily. So what you get is a CPU that has been near thermal breakdown many times.
Think how desirable that is when you are buying a pull CPU.

Just look at the insanity going on with this XP 1600 Agoia. In two months from now these people will be selling the surplus they bought after they were rocking them as much as they could. Then here you'll have some different $60 XP 2100 core stepping stampede again.

Really makes you want to join in the crowd.

Why do you always knock the XP 1600 every chance you get? You still do not realize why it is a hot deal. You are not an overclocker, so you could not understand why it is hot. When a chip has the potential to overclock 300mhz with minimal cooling (dont get started on the whole SVC heatsink thing, I'm talking minimal cooling in general, as in a 20$ heatsink+fan), and people don't have the 100$ to shell out on the equivalent speed non-overclocked processor, it is a hot deal. And in turn, you are getting a faster performing system clock for clock with the non-overclocked system due to the increased FSB. If you are not an overclocker, and this deal does not apply to you, you have no right to knock it. That would be called thread crapping. Try reading the forum rules again Steve, or better yet, I'll post them:
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What about COURTESY?

No thread crapping. If the subject matter of a deal does not interest you, do not post negative comments about it, or about other members, in the thread.

Possibly the worst examples we have had of this have been in posts for free religious items, such as bibles, etc. If you want to discuss religion, or any other such non-computer topic, do it in our Off Topic forum. The discussions in that forum cover a wide range of topics, but needless flaming and rude, mean-spirited posts are not welcome there, either.

Stick to discussing the deal. Do not post needless rude or trivial comments about someone else's posts. Flaming can only hurt someone's feelings. Nuisance posts, such as "In before the lock," "lBTL" or other needless bumps just recycle bad threads and force good ones off the first page of the forum.

Think before you post. Rude posts can kill a good deal. For example, posts for deals on sexually related items such as condoms and lubricants are ok, but if others cannot refrain from posting lewd or childish remarks, that would be reason to lock or delete the thread.
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And you know what, what's the problem if people sell the surplus they bought? They run for what, 1-4 months overclocked, and then are sold to people who want to run them at default speed? Well sorry if out of a 10 year life span, that 1-4 months of overclocking in your eyes knocked about 5 years off the processors life. But thats 5 years left for running at default speed, which is more then enough for most people.

And yes, its true, if a new stepping comes out, that overclocks to XP 2300+ speeds and above, then there will be a huge stampede over it again, and these processors will be sold, and at most people will take on them is probably a 7-8$ loss for an extra 100+mhz. Well worth it I'd say, considering stores charge a higher premium then that for just 66mhz usually.

And near thermal breakdown many times? Oh boy, so running a processor at 1.85v is near thermal breakdown? Wow, never thought that AMD processors were such wimps when it came to this. Do you think every overclocker is willing to jack up the voltage to 2.1v, use peltiers, and otherwise do extreme things to their processors? No, those are extreme overclockers, and not the mass majority of overclockers.

True, this is not a hot deal for people who do not overclock, but for the people who can't afford to spend the excess amount of money on a higher speed processor and want to try their hand at it, it is a hot deal. This is not Steve's Hot Deals forums, it is Anandtech's, so if it's not hot for you, too damn bad.

 

[ObiDon]

BigJ2078, you must have missed this post earlier in the thread...

Originally posted by: stevejst
Nope. This price is so low you will never see again this low. I bought 5 myself, and then we went again my wife bought 5 on her credit card, now we intend to ask few more friends to buy for us. You missed the point, these are agoiga code that are better than any of the agoiga codes before.

 

[DEFIANT1]

Can I make a suggestion here? Since we don't have an "ignore" button for those trolls and threadcrappers we don't care to hear from (unlike some other boards ANAND----->> HINT! HINT! HINT!) simply SCROLL PAST the posts and don't give them stuff to work with! Steve has managed to hijack the last thread on the 1600's with his ego-feeding need to force his opinion on us....don't let it happen here too! Got a thread-crapping problem? Report it to the mods; they'll take care of it one way or another.