NOTE: shipping for anything under $100 still costs $12+, so it's just an average deal if you only need 1. (most places are charging around $50 shipped for these) I needed 2 myself now, and got a spare, plus 1 for a friend to get the free shipping.
TigerDirect currently has a 12.2% bing CashBack going on (go to bing.com, and in the search field enter "TigerDirect". Log in, and then go to the website)
Here are the 2 budget processors that I feel are a really good deal right now:
Total cost of $35.11 for either of these is a great deal, especially with the free shipping, and no tax for me.
I am combining one of the E5200 processors with the recent $15 motherboard deal, and that gives me the backbone for a decent dual core system for just $50. I think that's a heck of a great deal to upgrade my ~ 3 year old single core 1.8 GHz system.
IStillPickUpPennies said: Referring to recent Newegg deal on Biostar Intel motherboard - was $15 shipped, limit 2.
IIRC These newer 45nm E5200 chips are not on the supported cpu list for that board. Upgrading another system with the E5200, and moving a Celeron 420 (Conroe core) into the Biostar $15 mobo.
Ordered an E5200 yesterday ~$43 shipped from Tiger through Amazon (couldn't use enough to hit $100 Tiger free shipping & do the Bing thing). Cheaper way to go if you only want or need one chip.
>IIRC These newer 45nm E5200 chips are not on the supported cpu list for that board.
My previous experience with "not supported" on the AMD platform has meant, simply, that the board's BIOS is not updated to properly identify a processor. On an earlier Asus board, for example, it will not properly identify an Athlon II cpu, since that cpu did not exist when the BIOS was coded. However, the Athlon II works just fine on it. At least on the AMD side of things, the motherboard usually only truly has a problem with a newer cpu if the cpu draws more wattage than the board allows.
In this case, the cpu is very energy efficient, and thus is unlikely to draw too much power for the board. Are you saying that Intel motherboards tend to be inferior to AMD based boards in that they simply will not allow newer processors to run when the BIOS does not identify them properly?
IStillPickUpPennies said: >IIRC These newer 45nm E5200 chips are not on the supported cpu list for that board.
My previous experience with "not supported" on the AMD platform has meant, simply, that the board's BIOS is not updated to properly identify a processor. On an earlier Asus board, for example, it will not properly identify an Athlon II cpu, since that cpu did not exist when the BIOS was coded. However, the Athlon II works just fine on it. At least on the AMD side of things, the motherboard usually only truly has a problem with a newer cpu if the cpu draws more wattage than the board allows.
In this case, the cpu is very energy efficient, and thus is unlikely to draw too much power for the board. Are you saying that Intel motherboards tend to be inferior to AMD based boards in that they simply will not allow newer processors to run when the BIOS does not identify them properly?
In this case the newwer intel cpu has a voltage that is not supported by that board, not a BIOS issue. So you could try it but it would probable fry the chip from to much voltage.
protometal
Thrifty Member
posted: Nov. 29, 2009 @ 8:09a
E 5200 is listed as currently unavailable. Too bad, as it would have been a nice upgrade from the E2140 on this machine...
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