Just picked one up in Alpharetta, GA (ok, "Milton", whatever). Both retail box for $100. Sweet deal, thx OP!
Also picked up a cheapo HDMI cable for FAR (6049648), a CyberPower 425VA UPS (4296164) for $20 AR ($5), and a CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 HSF (5940604) for FAR.
mddolloff said: i miss not having a fry's by me i think it is the one thing I actually miss about Houston. You should be more techy and fry will come like fly.
Board is P43 Neo with solid and electrolytic United Chemicon, TK, and OST caps. There is no warranty paperwork, but I suspect it's 3 yr?
CPU is boxed E7500 with 4-pin CPU cooler. My sample has pack date of 09/16/09 in Costa Rica with S-Spec SLGTE (Virtualization Technology enabled). Previous E7400 was able to hit 4.2GHz with 1.35Vcore in BIOS.
I got the combo, 4gb PNY RAM ($39 AR), the Diamond PCIE 6450 vid card ($40 AR), the $60 WD 1 TB Green HD, and a $60 Antec 650watt PS. The CSR described to me how FRY's sales commission works. Since the combo is a "loss leader" for Fry's, Fry's actually debits his sales talley by some amount. This is aggregious becuase Fry's actually penalizes their salemen for allowing me to buy such good deals. It is tremendous motiivation for the salesmen to "upsale" me. This shows where the retailer's real motivation is. Not some BS about serving the customer.
I was saddened to have taken money out of the very helpful saleman's pocket, but it made me feel good that I was getting a good deal on every component I bought, save maybe the PS.
I was at the Fry's here in San Diego @ 8:30AM (30 minutes after opening). I tried to get this, but the guy said all they had were the CPU's. The other CSR pointed out they had 1 mobo left, but it was an "open box return". . I passed.
I just left with the FAR HDMI cable.
LOL some idiot was in line with a box full of the FAR HSF's. I mean he had line 40 of them. I wish I stayed around to watch Fry's take all but one and put them under their counter, telling you "One per customer". They did that to me even when I tried buying just 2 packs of FAR photo paper a while back.
dropshadow
New Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 3:30p
FrankSinatra said: Since the combo is a "loss leader" for Fry's, Fry's actually debits his sales talley by some amount. This is aggregious becuase Fry's actually penalizes their salemen for allowing me to buy such good deals. It is tremendous motiivation for the salesmen to "upsale" me. This shows where the retailer's real motivation is. Not some BS about serving the customer.
picked up combo in dallas. didn't know about the sales arrangment i only bought the combo. feel bad from my very nice sales guy who only half-attempted to upsell me additional junk i didn't need...
apranger
Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 3:39p
Confirmed in the ad for Wilsonville, OR -- No idea on availability
FrankSinatra said: I got the combo, 4gb PNY RAM ($39 AR), the Diamond PCIE 6450 vid card ($40 AR), the $60 WD 1 TB Green HD, and a $60 Antec 650watt PS. The CSR described to me how FRY's sales commission works. Since the combo is a "loss leader" for Fry's, Fry's actually debits his sales talley by some amount. This is aggregious becuase Fry's actually penalizes their salemen for allowing me to buy such good deals. It is tremendous motiivation for the salesmen to "upsale" me. This shows where the retailer's real motivation is. Not some BS about serving the customer.
I was saddened to have taken money out of the very helpful saleman's pocket, but it made me feel good that I was getting a good deal on every component I bought, save maybe the PS. DDR2 RAM is expensive now.
jonrule
Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 5:54p
you bast.rds!
gunthonungo
Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 6:11p
Thanks for the heads up OP..... I was just getting ready to build a system with an core2duo E7200 and MSI P35 motherboard that I had bought before.... now I can just sell those to someone and use these instead....
GWBush said: Got one for my Windows 7 Launch Party computer. Still a few left in Woodland Hills, CA.Why? The E7500 doesn't have VT. You can't demo XP mode with this processor.
FrankSinatra said: Since the combo is a "loss leader" for Fry's, Fry's actually debits his sales talley by some amount. This is aggregious becuase Fry's actually penalizes their salemen for allowing me to buy such good deals. It is tremendous motiivation for the salesmen to "upsale" me. This shows where the retailer's real motivation is. Not some BS about serving the customer.
I was saddened to have taken money out of the very helpful saleman's pocket, but it made me feel good that I was getting a good deal on every component I bought, save maybe the PS.
Don't buy into that too much..or at all. Cause my bro actually works at Fry's. He gets no or minimal commission for the super good sales items, but it's not negative. They were just trying to give you a sob story.
kshell said: GWBush said: Got one for my Windows 7 Launch Party computer. Still a few left in Woodland Hills, CA.Why? The E7500 doesn't have VT. You can't demo XP mode with this processor.
???
"CPU is boxed E7500 with 4-pin CPU cooler. My sample has pack date of 09/16/09 in Costa Rica with S-Spec SLGTE (Virtualization Technology enabled). Previous E7400 was able to hit 4.2GHz with 1.35Vcore in BIOS."
Very nice deal. The board has OC jumpers that change FSB and corresponding strap latencies at 800, 1066, 1333, 1600 MHz. I don't think any other brand has this feature.
FrankSinatra said: I got the combo, 4gb PNY RAM ($39 AR), the Diamond PCIE 6450 vid card ($40 AR), the $60 WD 1 TB Green HD, and a $60 Antec 650watt PS. The CSR described to me how FRY's sales commission works. Since the combo is a "loss leader" for Fry's, Fry's actually debits his sales talley by some amount. This is aggregious becuase Fry's actually penalizes their salemen for allowing me to buy such good deals. It is tremendous motiivation for the salesmen to "upsale" me. This shows where the retailer's real motivation is. Not some BS about serving the customer.
I was saddened to have taken money out of the very helpful saleman's pocket, but it made me feel good that I was getting a good deal on every component I bought, save maybe the PS.
I still have my raincheck. Been calling every few days, the damn mobo is never on the truck. Oh well raincheck expires the 8th, hopefully something comes in.
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