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renegade44

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Ok here are the rules. You have to use a 3800 X2 you bought on Black Friday. Since I know there a couple of you sly con artist that will try to pricematch it some place else other than Fry's so you don't have to actually buy it there. But you have to have bought it retail on black friday for the Fry's Price which is 279$ in Phoenix/Tempe and most likely everywhere else. And if you bought it someplace else other than Fry's tell us about the fools who you bought it from for 279$. Please no other results.

And the Tempe Fry's still has PLENTY of them left as of 2:15 PM. So it's not too late to enter.

It may be a few days till I can tell you my results. I have to get my A-- back to work so I can pay for this S---!
 
I wasn't sly enough to do the price match. I am ashamed to say I wasted away 5hrs of my life at Frys... never freakin again!

Well anyway I have my combo with a Ballistix, X300 ATI, RP550 Rosewill PSU and running Memtest Rightnow.

My CPU is not recognised but that will be fixed when I get the mobo flashed later. ONe thing I am surprised is that the FSB options go to 250MHz even though the website says it can only go to 209MHz. Anyway, this should prove to be fun:)

Bryan D.
 
mine is @ 2.6 w/ 1.4v on stock cooler. it does 2.7 stable w/ 1.525 but is almost @60c on stock cooler. This ecs board is great for the money. vdimm to 3.11 w/ new bios, fsb goes to 450 w/ new bios. vcore goes to 1.7 lots of memory settings. The only thisng it does not have is agp voltage.
 
InfiniteThought said:
I about fell out of my seat when I saw that X2 system for $279 in the paper friday morning.

With tax it was 303$ with a crappy motherboard, Newegg has just the cpu at 322$ free ship. Of course I don't have a credit card so fry's has a big advantage over my sending a money order to the egg and waiting a week. Lots of motherboards appearing on e-bay at the moment (gee I wonder why) so I may wait a week to sell it. Average on e-bay seemed to be 40-50$

I had to really think hard but the devil won ;-) Still working on the rent for the first of December :-(
 
OC4life said:
mine is @ 2.6 w/ 1.4v on stock cooler. it does 2.7 stable w/ 1.525 but is almost @60c on stock cooler.

What does stable mean for you? I've been using dual primes with inplace large fft's and a rthdribl for the past few months. I did see a link to a post on dfi street, gonna have to read that sucka.

I picked up an AN8 SLI board and some seriously dissapointing Mushkin basic 2x1GB pc3200. Gonna have to take that crap right back and order somethin from the egg. I've been dating Intel for the majority of 05 and need to brush up on mem timings/htt again. So, let's keep this thread goin' guys!

Right now, I'm playing with fire, hehe...
(haven't ran prime at all yet, so pray for me!)

2700.JPG
 
What does stable mean for you? I've been using dual primes with inplace large fft's and a rthdribl for the past few months. I did see a link to a post on dfi street, gonna have to read that sucka.

dual prime 95 stable overnight. That ECS nforce4 board is a great board for the price. It was pretty crappy w/ the bios that was originaly loaded but after flashing it with the latest I found it had a lot more overclocking options. Actually I cant think of anything else I would want in a mobo.
 
Rules update:

Remember it has to be 3800 X2 from Fry's on BF or a pricematch on BF of the Fry's ad. If you bought it last week at Newegg it does NOT count.

Stable is defined as 12 hours of Prime 95 torture test.

You may post preliminary results but the official leader must post a screen shot of Prime 95 over 12 hours and a suitable clock speed program such as CPU-Z. You must also state the fry's or pricematch retailer.

Contest ends Sunday December 10th at 5PM PDT

Anything I have forgotten?
 
party animal said:
should people be posting the stepping and week? Im curious on what steppings Fry's carries.



Mine was ldbhe week 0541. BV or Manchester

tempe fry's

remember this is a dead deal
 
I'll post a 2.7 screenie in a couple hours after prime gets some time in.
BTW it is on the combo ecs motherboard.
 
Heres the screen shots of my $279 frys combo, I even bought their kingston value ram 2x512 for $59 after rebate to use w/ this cause my 820 required ddr2. This memory is pretty good, Im getting 6450mb/s out of it!!! $59 was a steal.....
screenie.JPG


the bios was set @ 270htt but it is only working @ 269 for some reason

here are my sandra results for this thing.... $279+$59=$338 what a steal... worth the 2 hour line

screenie2.JPG
 
renegade44 said:
Contest ends Sunday December 10th at 5PM PDT

Anything I have forgotten?

Yea!! Whadday we win?!?!

After an 8 month affair with my lil Preshot, I'm delighted to be "chillin'" with the Amd again. :santa:

PS. The ECS board's returnable. :rolleyes:
 

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Jod said:
Yea!! Whadday we win?!?!

After an 8 month affair with my lil Preshot, I'm delighted to be "chillin'" with the Amd again. :santa:

PS. The ECS board's returnable. :rolleyes:

Ya gotta have a prize to want to win???
 
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