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Rugger   10-28-2005 at 06:24:50 PM

$152 shipped at <A HREF="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80701-5" target="_new">Zipzoomfly.com</A> and at newegg! What happened to drop those prices?

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endyen   10-29-2005 at 01:59:45 AM
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That's a whole $3 below <A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html" target="_new">MSRP</A>

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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 04:26:35 AM
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Do I have a faulty memory or have they been selling for $190?

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dhlucke   10-29-2005 at 04:39:12 AM
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You messed with bunny and now you've lost your memory. Coincidence? I think NOT!

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 04:55:21 AM
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Want some "chicken" stew?

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dhlucke   10-29-2005 at 04:58:12 AM
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I saved them all. You cooked your own cat or something.

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
(='.'=)
(" )_(" ) Bow down before King Bunny

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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 05:09:49 AM
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You'll never be able to fool yourself...you know the truth. The truth that the bunnies have been slowy wiped from the face of THGC...the truth that King Bunny is a maniacal tyrant not worthy of loyalty. You can try to keep up the facade, but it will eventually crumble like the Berlin wall... :evil:

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dhlucke   10-29-2005 at 05:14:46 AM
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LOL!!!

*electrical shock*

AHHH! I mean you're wrong! King Bunny is a great ruler who will bring peace and prosperity to the forum!

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
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(" )_(" ) Bow down before King Bunny

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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 05:20:32 AM
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*knocks DH out with bat*
Wingy: Use something to corrode the electrical contacts!

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dhlucke   10-29-2005 at 05:28:41 AM
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*locks door to Wingdingium*

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 08:12:39 AM
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He has vays ov opening ze doorz.

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o1die   10-29-2005 at 09:15:50 AM
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Fry's has the 3200 retail boxed with ecs kt800 pro board for $170 this weekend. The board even has some overclocking settings.

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Rugger   10-29-2005 at 09:17:20 AM
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Via
*shudders*
No wonder the board is only $18

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endyen   10-29-2005 at 09:39:49 AM
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ecs
*shudders*
They'd have to pay me to take it.

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dhlucke   10-29-2005 at 04:12:25 PM
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ECS is fine.

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
(='.'=)
(" )_(" ) Bow down before King Bunny

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o1die   10-29-2005 at 08:05:55 PM
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$18 for a board isn't a bad deal. I use an ecs board with built in video and raid, and it works fine. 2 of my family members use the old k7s5a. It's all they need for surfing the net. I may get the Fry's combo deal after I pay my property taxes next week.

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fishmahn   10-29-2005 at 11:49:01 PM
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AMD dropped prices ~10-20% (vary by model) and dropped the 2800+/3000+ so the 3200 is the new low end for the A64 line (exc Sempron of course).

Mike.

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dhlucke   10-30-2005 at 03:50:49 AM
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My old ECS K7S5A is still running. I have it at work now but it's a good board.

<font color=red><b>Long live Dhanity and the minions scouring the depths of Wingdingium!</b>

XxxxX
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(" )_(" ) Bow down before King Bunny

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Rugger   10-30-2005 at 04:58:25 AM
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Gotcha - thanks!

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endyen   10-30-2005 at 09:36:31 AM
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I have two problems with ECS. First off, they charge for every rma, whether they accept it or not. They will keep your money, but refuse the rma, if the board has so much as a scratch on it.
The second is that some of the crap they sold to oems is a major part of why amd had such a bad rep for instability.
The K7S5a is the exception. Mostly because of the chipset, but it was a great board. I still have mine. If I run across a good deal on a chip for it, I may even replace the blown caps.

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Spitfire_x86   10-30-2005 at 12:15:59 PM
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K7S5A was the exception? In the K7S5A days, the motherboard forum had too many "K7S5A problem" threads

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o1die   10-30-2005 at 02:09:56 PM
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I bought the combo yesterday, and installed it this morning. At first it posted at 240, but I gave up on a stable overclock. Not enough voltage settings. You also have to set the command rate to 2t when running 4 sticks of memory, or it won't post. But the board runs fine otherwise. Not a bad deal if you don't overclock. And it recognized the venice core without any problems.

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confusion   10-30-2005 at 08:37:57 PM
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Quote :

What happened to drop those prices?



Opteron 144 939

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Rugger   10-30-2005 at 09:33:41 PM
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IC...no I don't why would Opteron in s939 drop the A64 line prices?

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confusion   10-31-2005 at 01:01:43 AM
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why would Opteron in s939 drop the A64 line prices?


Opteron 144 = 1.8GHz 1mb L2 for <A HREF="http://www.tankguys.biz/opteron-cache-socket-p-1419.html" target="_new">$152</A> = $40 cheaper than 3200+ with much higher OC potential (<A HREF="http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75211" target="_new">link</A> ). (then there is also the stellar $210 OC'er to take into account - the "Opterpwn" 146)

Why wouldn't they lower the price of the 3200+ to keep it as a viable purchase option?

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Zoron   10-31-2005 at 05:08:20 PM
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ECS is fine.



If you like bulging capacitors...

:tongue:

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Zoron   11-01-2005 at 12:21:34 AM
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Tell that to my last three customers that came in with defunct motherboards.

:tongue:

I agree that ECS's newer boards are an improvement... but this capacitor deal has left a bad taste in my mouth. I also know ECS wasn't the only company that put out such boards (I've ran across IBM and Giga-Byte boards with the same issue). Most of the boards I've seen until recently have been ECS... but more GigaByte boards are popping up now.

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endyen   11-01-2005 at 01:24:54 AM
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the motherboard forum had too many "K7S5A problem" threads


True, but most were fixed by putting a decent psu in. Trying to boot a then modern pc with a < 250 watt psu, was just not smart. Then of course there were the people who tried to put SD and DDR into the same board. Not that that forum doesn't still get the odd idiot post, but it's getting fewer cheap idiot posts.

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dhlucke   11-01-2005 at 01:34:13 AM
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There were some bad batches in the begining. Mine was flawless though. There were a lot of people that were trying to run that board with a PSU that couldn't handle it. I got a 400W Antec to run that board which was fine but others were trying to do the same with 250W or 300W generic PSU's and it was just not working.



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XxxxX
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(" )_(" ) Bow down before King Bunny

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endyen   11-01-2005 at 01:48:47 AM
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What really impressed me with the board, was the single chip chipset. I found that palomino cores ran about 5c cooler, than on any other mobo. Some of the alternate bios were also very nice.

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o1die   11-01-2005 at 02:51:54 PM
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I would never recommend ecs for beginners. They should go with Intel or Dell. Has a certain ring to it.

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