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DuckieHo · 03-11-08

BTW, I just read that there's a price drop on the Athlon BE. I want that 2350.... its HSF can be pretty much stop off when idle.

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-43...-X2-4850e.html
Athlon X2 4850e (2.5 GHz) -> $89;
Athlon X2 BE-2400 (2.3 GHz) -> $78 (now $104)
Athlon X2 BE-2350 (2.1 GHz) -> $68 (now $91)

Oh, I contact MotherboardPro and they're going to send me a quote on the Gigabyte 780G. Hopefully, it'll be less than ClubIT.

....Oh, there are different revisions of the 780G... A11, A12, A13. The earliest version is an engineering sample that has issues with Phenom. Also, a Phenom CPU with a HT3.0 seems to improve image quality.

dhrandy · 03-11-08

Keep me updated DuckioHo. I almost ordered the parts today. Guess I'll be holding off for a little bit. Thanks.

dhrandy · 03-11-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by DuckieHo

BTW, I just read that there's a price drop on the Athlon BE. I want that 2350.... its HSF can be pretty much stop off when idle.

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-43...-X2-4850e.html
Athlon X2 4850e (2.5 GHz) -> $89;
Athlon X2 BE-2400 (2.3 GHz) -> $78 (now $104)
Athlon X2 BE-2350 (2.1 GHz) -> $68 (now $91)

Oh, I contact MotherboardPro and they're going to send me a quote on the Gigabyte 780G. Hopefully, it'll be less than ClubIT.

....Oh, there are different revisions of the 780G... A11, A12, A13. The earliest version is an engineering sample that has issues with Phenom. Also, a Phenom CPU with a HT3.0 seems to improve image quality.

I'm confused, is there suppose to be a price drop?

balake777 · 03-11-08

think he was just showing cpus that don't use much power and one of them was cheaper than normal.

dhrandy · 03-12-08

I think I'm going to go with the AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core. First post updated.

DuckieHo · 03-12-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by balake777

think he was just showing cpus that don't use much power and one of them was cheaper than normal.

There's a new EE X2 that was just released last week but hasn't trickled to retail yet.

Two of the three BE CPUs will be getting a price drop.

The rest of the normal X2 will get a price drop in April.

dhrandy · 03-12-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by DuckieHo

There's a new EE X2 that was just released last week but hasn't trickled to retail yet.

Two of the three BE CPUs will be getting a price drop.

The rest of the normal X2 will get a price drop in April.

How soon in April? I'm wanting it now.

DuckieHo · 03-13-08

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Originally Posted by dhrandy

How soon in April? I'm wanting it now.

It was posted in news a few days ago. I believe April 11th?

I researched the difference between the 45w and 65w TDP Athlons. At idle, they consume the same amount of power. At full load, the 65w versions use 20w more.

dhrandy · 03-17-08

I've not had the best of luck the past couple of days. First, my 37" HD LCD tv stops working. I cut on the power, no picture and it won't cut off. I just had it a little over a year, so it's out of manufactures warranty. Luckily I bought the 2 year extended warranty. I called up and now have to wait for a shipping label to ship off the tv to get repaired.

Second, I had a hard drive go out that's in my server. It's also the hard drive that has the OS on it. The good thing is that it's only a 250 gig hard drive and I have my music and pictures backed up. Right now I'm using the disk utility to try to save some of my files. I had just put Meedio on the server and had it hooked up to a 27" tube tv.

So now I'm using a 20" flat screen tube tv and get to stare at my new computer parts until my tv comes back. Right now I still have the HTPC hooked up to the 20" tv using S-video. The new motherboard doesn't have S-video, so I can't use it for now.

I'll also be ordering another 500 gig hard drive for my server soon.

lordikon · 03-17-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhrandy

Current HTPC
-2.4 P4
-760 gig of generic ram (3 sticks)
-9600XT w/tuner
-40 gig 5400 rpm IDE hard drive
-Case
-430 Watt PS
-250 gig IDE hard drive
-DVD Rom IDE drive
-AuzenTech XPlosion 7.1 Sound Card

What I will be using from old HTPC
-Case
-430 Watt PS
-250 gig IDE hard drive
-DVD Rom IDE drive
-AuzenTech XPlosion 7.1 Sound Card

PARTS ORDERED

760gigs of RAM with only 3 sticks?! Hook a brotha up!

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