i5-4670k $190 shipped!

[alaricljs]

So Amazon is having a deal on the i5-4670k that matches the MicroCenter in-store deal. No discount on a mobo to match tho

 

[Zeldak]

It's a good price, though. Sometimes the motherboard discount nudges you in a direction you otherwise wouldn't go.

 

[cubeless]

there's a handful of things on goldbox today... the mouse and extreme2 480 are an ok deal, too...

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gbsl_tit...d_p=1740370942

 

[Tweakin]

The SanDisk Extreme II is a great price at $139...

 

[davmat787]

I just finished an online chat with an Amazon rep, I bought this proc on the 4th at $229 and they issued the difference in no time. In fact it should be arriving anytime along with a compatible mobo I ordered along with it.

A $43.48 credit is decent enough. I even asked to simply have it applied to my account to feed my Fire HDX but she simply issued the refund to the card used to make the purchase, which is fine too.

Was going to start a thread noting this deal and the SanDisk SSD's.

 

[davmat787]

This will be my first K proc. Current proc is a first gen i7 880 I believe. Mainly after the energy savings and less noise, but the extra speed will be nice too. I was surprised how hard it is to find 1st gen to 4th gen benchmarks with most people not upgrading as often now.

Actually, not even sure why I went with the K version planning to overclock. I guess it is just something you do after that first time of OC'ing my Pentium 90 MHZ to 100 MHZ by changing the bus jumper from 60 to 66. I wonder how many here built computers that used jumpers on the mobo, SCSI drives, .etc? This is a pic of a jumper blown up like 996%

 

[Ricochet]

^Yep. The most common usage is to change the master/slave setting on IDE drives.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I miss my first build with my Abit KT7A-RAID. Good times.

 

[texasfury]

......

 

[smartadze]

Pentium? My first build was a 386/25 - friends came to visit just to behold the raw power I bet I burned up or cracked the cores on 50 Athlons! I can't find my GFs Facebook page, but I can still run off thirty lines of DOS 3 from memory.

 

[ClockerXP]

My first build... AMD K5 90.

After than I joined the big boys with an Abit IT5H v1.5 with Pentium 233 @ 290 Mhz, IIRC. Grandfather of overclocking I think.

 

[Awesomedude99]

I just finished an online chat with an Amazon rep, I bought this proc on the 4th at $229 and they issued the difference in no time. In fact it should be arriving anytime along with a compatible mobo I ordered along with it.

A $43.48 credit is decent enough. I even asked to simply have it applied to my account to feed my Fire HDX but she simply issued the refund to the card used to make the purchase, which is fine too.

Was going to start a thread noting this deal and the SanDisk SSD's.

same thing happened to me but i didnt bother going through all that for $8, now i think i should have! didn't know it's possible?
it's not the first time i get something and the very next day price drops lol. so iv learned to choose super saver shipping in case price dropped i can cancel.

 

[MongGrel]

I think I've an old Gigabyte KT7 board laying around here somewhere.

And had a KT5 for awhile, were some of my earlier builds myself.

I think the first mod I ever really did was a CPU upgrade from Pentium 40 to a 60 or something along those lines, heh that was long ago.