Newegg price drop on xp 1700, 1800

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[Tot]

BUMP for a good deal.



I will wait for the Thoroughbred out to upgrade from my cheesy Intel
celeron500@800.

YES I am going to support AMD all the way. Buy their most expensive chip to help them out. I detest intel as they are a bunch of liars
same as those DELL bastard. "no punt intended for any of them that are good"

I will buy an AMD cheap even if they are 500 a pop. Coz they are soo much better then Intels crap.

Long Live AMD
Long Live AMD
Long Long life AMD

 

[Z80]

I'd stay away from those cheap motherboards (FIC, ECS, Shuttle, etc.). One RMA and you'll have wasted enough time that you could have bought two high quality motherboards (Asus, Abit, Soyo, etc.). They are cheap for a reason - poor quality assurance, cheap components, lousy design.
IMHO

 

[ncage]

I would recommend staying away from the k75sa. About 3 weeks after they came out i bought two of them. ECS's quality controls is very bad. Based upon what log you get determines if you will get a good board or not. The first one i bought, i was very happy with and was a very stable board. The second one i bought was horrible. I installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2 and would get all kinds of memory dumps (4 or more a day). It was very strange because the only thing i had in this computer was a 52X CD Rom, 20gig hard drive. There was no sound card or anything. I was running a older Nvidia TNT Card. I was using an antec 400w power supply. I had two 256mb Crucial Memory Sims. I was curious one day and put my "good" board in the computer to see if it would eliminate the crashes (i didn't change anything else). and all crashes stoped. Both boards had the latest bios revision. I had the opportunity to see 5 other boards. Two of which where flaky just like the bad one i had. Oh and the intergrated network card (don't use it). Im an application developer and do a lot of database programming and i kept loosing connection to my database and coudn't figure it out. I put a replacement network card in one of the pc's and it didn't help. I then replaced both of them and i never had the problem again. In general it just seemed to be alot worse than my linksys cards

 

[Cheesemoo]

well i have the soyo dragon + and i love the board so far. i am using the raid0 with two WD 60 gigers. got an XP 1800 @ 1.667 . if you want all the features of the soyo baord i would say go for it.

 

[DrumminBoy]

what price do you think the thoroughbreds will start out at?

 

[MarkM]

<< IF im NOT going to do any OVerclocking or messing with my motherboard at all
would the k7 SOYO DRAGON or dragon plus be a good motherboard for me to have for the money >>



well, i don't overclock, and i have the dragon plus. no complaints. but I also bought a Fong Kai case for more than I could have gotten a more basic case too because I thought the extra level of quality was worth it.

 

[Jolt2]

Newegg prices went back up! XP1700 OEM $120.00.

 

[Ziptar]

tcwo.com has the XP 1700 for $105.00 and the XP 1800 for $125.00 with $6.95 shipping for up yo 150lbs.

tcwo is an excellect reseller

 

[gunf1ghter]

How reliable is tcwo?

 

[gunf1ghter]

TCWO prices have gone back up... newegg is still cheaper... I think it's wise to wait another couple of weeks... I expect that the XP1800+ will be down to $110 for the OEM chip.

AthlonXP 1600+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
117.00

AthlonXP 1700+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
118.00

AthlonXP 1800+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
145.00

AthlonXP 1900+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
193.00

AthlonXP 2000+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
248.00

AthlonXP 2100+ OEM
1 Year Warranty*
339.00

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[kbaxter]

Slycat,

What tweaking are you referring to for the ECS K7S5A? I just turned mine on last night (using XP1600+) and it seemed to require very little tweaking from what I could see. It's not quite performing up to my expectations yet, but it's a bit memory starved right now. A little boost in RAM, plus moving to DDR and I think this is going to be a solid performer.

I can't comment on the quality control aspect, as this is only a sample of one. But I've read really good things about this board (on newegg!) and that's why I decided to go with it. And you simply cannot beat the price!

Good luck out there.

 

[drewdogg808]

man...talk about fluctuations...newegg xp1700 is now $110 and xp1800 is $125 again. the xp1600 is $112, more than the 1700! these are all oem, btw.

 

[CtK]

i have the Soy Dragon+ and it is running GREAT!!

i have 4 HD installed on it non raid just used the raid controllers as regular IDEs
i have my DVD on IDE1 and CDRW on IDE2 and my HDs on IDE3 and 4

it is a very stable board
i have gotten my XP1800+ up2 1.7ghz!!

if i was anyone who wanted to get a new MB i would wait till the KT333A comes out
or the nForce DDR333

 

[klitscher]

Newegg AMD CPU's

1700 - $103
1500 - $108
1600 - $109
1800 - $123


All OEM

 

[LukFilm]

Boy, am I glad that I sold USED, OEM 1600+ for $150 shipped on Ebay last week

 

[JoeFoster]

Through Pricewatch, TWCO has 1700+ for $103+$6.95shipping=$109.95shipped

 

[treemonkey]

The price bounce always happens before a new line of chips comes out. I remember the T'birds kept on creeping up in price before the XPs came out. They do it so they can "cut" the prices later.

 

[DTBH]

need tbred

 

[wildwolf]

Just some FYI, alot of the (most?) of the newer KT333 chipset boards support USB 2.0 now. Although I don't know for sure if they're out yet, I do know alot of them have USB 2.0 specs.

I got the MSI Pro2U board KT266A board for a friend's system recently..and can't setup the hard drives on the RAID controller as plain IDE drives like I can on my Asus A7V133 board. With a jumper, I can disable RAID, and the RAID controller is just an extra ATA/100 controller. You can use the drives on the MSI RAID controller...but setting one up is a pain in the .....and you can forget about adding a 2nd drive to it w/o formatting/losing data. It WANTS RAID. If anybody knows else, please enlighten me.

 

[Kosh69]

F.Y.I. I have a K7S5A with a T-bird 1.4 and 512 MB of crucial DDR...this board was so simple to set up that my cat could do it and it has been running ROCK solid with absolutely no problems for 6 months now....

 

[drewdogg808]

wildwolf, how is that msi board aside from what you mentioned? can you add more than one hd to the raid controllers, with just the master ones running as raid? i was thinking about getting that mb, but i'm having trouble deciding on getting it or waiting for the kt333a's.

 

[weplum]

Tried two of the k7s5a's and ended up sending both back to newegg, this was with 1.2 tbirds and pc2100 mem. The gigabyte board from the xp1800 give away was a piece of crap. I bought a SHUTTLE AK31A and installed the xp1800 and it fired right up no problems. I have used several of the Abit boards running 1.2 tbirds w/133 sdram and never had a problem.