OBWan said:And yes, the credit goes to SP33DFR34K at SD

Thanks for letting me know! I'm sitting here clapping in front of my computer screen, and I would have been dong it under false pretenses if not for your timely post. Thanks!

iceui2 said:nvm
Read the time stamp, man.
iceui2 said:Just a suggestion (you don't have to do it): Could you link each of the items? Thanks!
OBWan's original post got the link (to the really original post which consists of all the links) but it was removed by the mod. I'd green to this OP if he gets the real work done.

OBWan said:And yes, the credit goes to SP33DFR34K at SD

technically credit should go to his or her mother or father....I mean without them he or she wouldnt be here.

WHERE does it end??????

billybabe3883 said:OBWan said:And yes, the credit goes to SP33DFR34K at SD

technically credit should go to his or her mother or father....I mean without them he or she wouldnt be here.

WHERE does it end??????
I'd like to thank SP33DFR34K @ SD, John Fry (CEO of Fry's Electronics), the newspaper printers responsible for printing the ad, Fry's ad design team for putting in the hours of work, Microsoft for implementing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, my parents for never giving up on me, and my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

billybabe3883 said:WHERE does it end??????
Geez it's so simple, though not surprised that some of you wouldn't know. It ends when one of the following conditions hold -
1. it ends when there's no troll or @55 in this forum
2. it ends when people know and do what is moral

So you see technically it can end, but it is always those who don't want it to end keep this argument alive.

billybabe3883 said:OBWan said:And yes, the credit goes to SP33DFR34K at SD

technically credit should go to his or her mother or father....I mean without them he or she wouldnt be here.

WHERE does it end??????
Everything will end at Fry's on Monday.

is that cpu mobo a good deal? 150 seems decent for the quad core and budget mobo...

bbmattt said:is that cpu mobo a good deal? 150 seems decent for the quad core and budget mobo...
Yes, easily. The Q6600 is the best price/performance quad-core on the market.

AMD quad-cores are cheaper on average, but not as fast (even at the same clock speed).

Intel's new quad-cores (Q9300, Q9450, Q8200) are priced a lot higher for roughly the same speed and a small amount of power savings.

Newegg has the OEM Q6600 CPUs for $180 shipped, with 93% 5-star reviews. The motherboard is actually decent since it uses an NVIDIA chipset; it has decent built-in video and options. But you can always sell the motherboard and drop the net price of the CPU even lower.

Also, since it uses a 1066MHz FSB speed (as opposed to the 1333MHz FSB of the newer Intel quad-cores), it can be overclocked VERY EASILY using a small piece of electrical tape (it's called a BSEL mod, Google it).

p0tempkin said:Newegg has the OEM Q6600 CPUs for $180 shipped, with 93% 5-star reviews. The motherboard is actually decent since it uses an NVIDIA chipset; it has decent built-in video and options. But you can always sell the motherboard and drop the net price of the CPU even lower.

Also, since it uses a 1066MHz FSB speed (as opposed to the 1333MHz FSB of the newer Intel quad-cores), it can be overclocked VERY EASILY using a small piece of electrical tape (it's called a BSEL mod, Google it).
ECS GF7050VT-M doesn't need the BSEL mod to overclock the 1066-FSB CPUs. The BIOS menu offers FSB/memory clock adjustment down to MHz steps, either "linked" or "unlinked". Anyone can overclock with this board right out the box to the limit where the stock CPU voltage can support. The mobo doesn't support CPU voltage adjustment but one can always find the CPU voltage mod trick via google. One major negative of this board is it's single-channel memory bottleck. It cripples the CPU-memory performance severely so take note if you intend to use this combo to do intensive data computation (e.g. video processing).

BTW, Fry's no longer offers retail-boxed Q6600 in the combo deal. And recent 2008 batches are mediocre overclockers at best - don't expect to get them over 3.2GHz easily.