After spending 4 hours yesterday running between Sunnyvale and Palo Alto Fry's with my friend, trying to get a working processor, I would not recommend any of the Fry's processor "deals".
I bought the $50 AthlonXP 2400+ and PCBits mobo combo a couple of weeks ago from Campbell, I was going to eBay the mobo and use the processor with a DFI Infinity Ultra NFII mobo. However they gave me a dud Thorton (which I thought was the European-only terminology for a Thoroughbred B) . So I returned the processor, they gave me another one. Got home, it didn't work.
Returned it to Sunnyvale Fry's. They had no stock, so were going to give me a 2500+, but it turned out they had no stock of those either - they could only offer me a Sempron 2400+, which is about the same speed as an AthlonXP 2000+ so they sent me onto Palo Alto Fry's.
Got to PA Fry's, they eventually gave me a new processor after having to argue with the checkout girl that this was a straight exchange and not a discount - ah the language barrier! The guy who tests the processors was on his break, so I got my computer out of the van and plugged the processor in - this one didn't work either. I tried it with the PCBits mobo too (I'd proven earlier that the mobo works) it didn't work in that either, so I just gave up and got a refund on the whole lot. They were going to give me store credit until I explained to the manager that Newegg won't take Fry's credit, and that was where I was going to get a real processor from, instead of the useless lumps of ceramic they were selling.
A friend of mine had almost the exact same experience a couple of weeks ago, except on his third attempt, he got a working processor out of them. So that was 1 out of 6 processors that worked - or over an 83% failure rate! This wasn't just a bad batch either, as some of them were brown, some were green, and they had different steppings, and this was 3 different stores! I believe Fry's is buying reject stock from AMD, or they got hold of some bankrupt stock from Europe.
Also note, that PCBits mobo is truly awful - worse even than the ECS.