Oh dear....
Think I am going to throw up 8O
Just to think when I started to buy parts for my new upgrade (hope to have it power up the first time this weekend) I was pretty tempted to get the 6000+ but decided not to, instead I dropped 230 (already dropped the day after I ordered a few bucks) on the 5200+
Looks like if I waited I coulda got the 6000+ for the a few bucks more then I paid for the 5200+
Does anyone know of a nice and cheap way to ship me a cpu? I so wish I could buy from the egg. All I want for now is a 4800 x2...
I'm not in the USA right now or I'd help ya out. But just get any of these guys to receive it for you and then they can just stick a $5 airmail stamp on it and you'll receive it in a week or two!
Man I wish I had relatives or something there. All I've got are you guys and I haven't even met any one of you so what a risk it would be. I'd do it though.
Where are you traveling to this time? tsunami-like wheather hit durban this weekend (sounds worse than it is). My soon to be parents in law went there on holiday today...
Man I wish I had relatives or something there. All I've got are you guys and I haven't even met any one of you so what a risk it would be. I'd do it though.
Where are you traveling to this time? tsunami-like wheather hit durban this weekend (sounds worse than it is). My soon to be parents in law went there on holiday today...
Hmm... tsunami weather... that's a new one, but you may be onto something new! Wanna write a paper about it for The Seismic Meteorology Journal?
I'm in Canada for the next week. Visiting 1Tanker. Unfortunately he warned me that he had sent his teenagers out of town for the week so that I wouldn't pervert them. Took a lot of the fun outta the trip!
I'm sure that if you can talk any of the more upstanding THGers they wouldn't rip you off. There's a lot of guys here that are ubertrustworthy!
Wish I was living in canada/usa to be able to visit you guys and all that.
I wouldn't really call it tsunami it's more like VERY high tides. (about 50 meters past the normal shoreline).
I have no problem trusting you or some of the other regulars. I just didn't really chat as easily to the others like with you so I don't know how the trust factor would be there towards me...Anyhow, I'll let you know when I have some dough and want a processor. How much is your cut gonna be?
I'm pretty sure that some of the forum regulars (don't need to name 'em... you know who they all are) would be up for it. As for me, I'd do it for nuthin' and even throw in the stamp, but I won't be back in the ol USofA for a little while. There are lots of nations that require armed coercion to be FREE!
Get used to them high tides! When almost 20% of the Arctic icepack melted, that water didn't just go into Evian bottles! 8)
I'll tell ya... I wouldn't buy a top of the line new rig today even if my San Diego decided to go off to SeaWorld and never come back. I'd make do with a second-hand Sempron/Centrino POS if I had to until the real goodies come out in a few months!
I wonder if either of the Duopolists are working on Global Warming CPUs that function underwater?
Like I said, I'm only planning on upgrading for myself around christmas. Then the hype/high prices should be over.
Oh yeah, by the end of the calendar year, I can certainly foresee all sorts of 45nm goodies going out the door at garage sale pricing. Just the thought of a 2.9 GHz Penryn Quad at US$299 makes me salivate more than Pavlov's mutt.
I really hate to stretch the poor ol 3700 that far into the future, but it's gonna be well worth it! Hopefully the price of RAM will continue to dwindle down to around US$50/GB. Imagine that. A dual socket board, two Quads and 4GB RAM and change back from your thousand dollars! HOT DAMN!
Do you wanna kill me or something? If I won't die from the heart attack of just thinking of that then it'll have to be from the shock I'll get from drooling all over my keyboard.
ATM value ram goes for anything above $133/GB here by me. That is always the big burner in my pocket and why I haven't gotten more than my 1GB...
Jack: 30% is a real nice percentage. Should make buying all those gobs of RAM much easier on the ol' pocketbook! Since it seems like I'm purchasing in Q3 at the earliest, I might opt for 8GB after all!
Dade: Check out the last minute flight sites. I'm sure you can find some ultra cheapo flights to NYC. You might wanna connect out of the UK as they have some dropdead cheap flights there. Globespan is especially good. They'll fly you from London to the States return for about $300 and that's all taxes and fees included. The money you save on a rig will likely equal the price of your flight, and you'll get a vacation for free!
