Barass.
The fan that comes with it is the same fan that comes with 1800+ cpu's factory stock. Not a swiftech that costs more than this whole combo shipped.
I have one of these combos with an overclockers bios on the board. 143fsb. 1430mhz with an alpha 8045. radeon 8500.The dam heatsink costs the same as the cpu. But it's stable. voltage modded the cpu to 1.85 volts. is this my main rig no. This is my second rig
Main rig 1.8a p4 northwood at 2808mhz,cooled with a dangerden maze 2.2 with 2 85 watt pelts, 512 pc3000 ram. OC'd to to 415mhz ddr. epox 4bda2+ ,b voltage moded for cpu at 2.03 volts, pny geforce 4600, watercooled. 345core/750mhz memory, 2 western dig 120 gig 8 meg cache raid 0, 40x liteon cdrw, 16x dvd. 2x 20.1 inch dell fp2000 LCD's, also found on this forum for $1260 shipped. They are usually $1699.
Im not afraid to spend money, And i dont buy junk. These boards are stable, and i use these combos to upgrade a lot of computers. What for the price compares Barass?? could you recommed something for under $100.
This is a deals forum and this is a deal. Everyone knows about the board and cpu. And the K7S5A's. Honestly these are the most stable boards i use for amd systems, and i use about 20 a month. I worry everytime i put a via chipset board out to a customer, because they saw the kt266a or 333 is 5% faster then this board that costs less than half as much. This is the only board ECS has ever sold that was worth a dam. They should quit now.
I can get the board for $43 from a distributor,and i do unless i can get them cheaper on outpost. But its hard to get retail cpu's cheap unless you buy a lot. And unless you sell all of them, you lose$$$ So i save $10 using outpost. It adds up.
Dam now im ranting in the deals forum, forgive me all.
I do not sell or solicit any business on here nor would i ever. Im here for the deals like everyone else. Most of my main computer is from deals on this forum. The vid card TCWO for $329 4 weeks ago, the WD's 120's $143shipped The dell deal,the 40x lite on from dell $80 the 16x dvd's $37 dell.
I see you just joined so in here dont trash people we dont need a cold shower, we know what were getting and what we are buying. I bought the 1800+ ecs combo's 3 weeks ago when they were $159. that was hot. This is a nice cheap upgrade for people still rocking the celerons and want a cheap boost.
Please read the forum your in "Hot Deals"
Dam now im ranting in the deals forum, forgive me all.