Seattle Fry's B&M: Friday board combos.

From the Seattle ad:

PLU: 6176519
Intel Core i7 Processor 930 & MSI x58 Pro-E Motherboard
ATI Crossfire or Nvidia SLI

$369.99 - $20 MIR = $349.99 after rebate.

Newegg price - $294.99 (i7 retail), $189.99 (MSI x58 Pro-E)
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PLU: 6192379
Core 2 Duo E7500 & Biostar G41-M7 mATX

$109.99 - $10 MIR = $99.99 after rebate.

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PLU: 6176509
AMD Athlon II X4 635 & Biostar A770E3

$119.99 - $10 MIR = $109.99 after rebate.

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As always, YMMV for other locations.

(Why am I posting Seattle? Because everyone else has ads online, while Fry's skimps on advertising online for Renton.)

Thanks OP! I hate that the Renton one isn't advertised online anymore.

Nice to see bundles w/o ECS motherboards.

Confirmed that the i7 combo does include a retail CPU - they don't try to sneak OEM in there. My 920 has been a solid overclocker - sounds like the 930 ups the ante even more!

awesome, just for peoples references, here are the passmark scores on these cpus and a passmark/$ computation

CPU      passmark	$	passmark/$
E7500	    1990        $100    19.90
i7 930      5398        $350    15.42
x4 635	    3657        $110    33.25

For those that have access to Microcenter B&M,there are rumors this box cpu only will be available for $229 on 3/8, according to this thread from Anandtech Hot Deals forum....

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2055022

Economist said: Any update for Sunday (or Monday) ads yet? Got a x555 combo, but hoping to get a decent board (that would allow unlocking 4 cores) and a slower AM3 processor for a good pairing. Also, any DDR3/DDR2 deals?
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I`m in the same boat, I want a mATX board that will unlock for the x555...see whats in the Monday morning Chicago Trib..

Don,t get in too big a rush as there anniversary sale will be coming soon with super deals..

ECS is better than they used to be, but I find that their boards always seem to underpreform. I literally had an ECS board burn up once on power up; filled a small room with smoke. I still use them for extreme budget builds if I can get a good Fry's bundle, but I'd much rather have an Asus or MSI.

gooddog said: dogmeat said: Nice to see bundles w/o ECS motherboards.I've had very good success with ECS Boards. I can't get one to go out so I have an excuse to get a different one.
Chris.

Hi! I went to the Renton store on March 5 at 11:15am and as soon as I asked for the i7 combo they told me I got the last one and they put a little paper sign out saying that the combo was sold out. I'm not sure if they make a distinction between a combo sale and the invidivual components. I also asked them how many combos they had originally and the guy said 20.

hwyking said: I went to the Seattle/Renton store today to pick up a combo because they showed in stock online. When I got there they said they were sold out. I asked about the online inventory checker and they said it's not always up to date. OK so I went back to work and placed the order online to see if it would get cancelled. Within 2 minutes my order was ready to be picked up. WTH? So I called and talked to a CSR and she verified 3 CPUs and 25 mobo's in stock. I asked about the combo price and she called components to verify and they said it was such a big loss they decided not to honor that price.

Can they do this? They are going to hold my items for 3 days so if it's worth going back to pick up my stuff with ad in hand I'll do it. Sucks it's 20 miles away though.