BF2S Forums help me cut costs!

Not that I can see, but thank you for giving me better prices on the X2 4200+, I want that for Christmas and the cheapest I found was $190.  Is that 65W version the same as the regular thing?

Edit: Shoot, I was looking for the Socket 939 version.

Last edited by haffeysucks (2006-12-14 16:03:33)

Hard to beat newegg man.. Wallmart for geeks.. I'll look though.

Pricewatch seems to all be pointing neweggs way http://www.pricewatch.com/ .

Last edited by Kmarion (2006-12-14 16:10:02)

why? its dirt cheap, only 239 after mail-ins.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Cut  the 7950...

Atleast give him alternatives and prices... thats a worthless statement by itself.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Ender2309 wrote:

why? its dirt cheap, only 239 after mail-ins.

You make a thread about trying to cut costs, then don't want to cut back on your highest priced item.

I thought he was looking for a place to get those components cheaper, not replace them. I'm confused..lol

Kmarion wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Ender2309 wrote:

why? its dirt cheap, only 239 after mail-ins.

You make a thread about trying to cut costs, then don't want to cut back on your highest priced item.

I thought he was looking for a place to get those components cheaper, not replace them. I'm confused..lol

if they can be replaced with part that will get me more or less equal performance on 2142/bf2 then by all means replace away.

@ des.kmal

my current rig:


athlon 3000+ 754 pin
K8ns-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mobo - by gigabyte
160gb hdd
1 gb generic unmatched cant-believe-it-works-together-bought-separately ram
radeon 9550 256mb (AGP)

piece of shit, eh?


PS: is it a more intellegent decision to go with 939 or AM2 CPU socket. i've heard that amd is moving away from 939, right?


edit:

@flaming_maniac: i just wanted to know what your reasoning behind that decision was. i just don't like to be a lemming, is all.

Last edited by Ender2309 (2006-12-14 17:10:22)

Des.Kmal wrote:

Ender2309 wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

I thought he was looking for a place to get those components cheaper, not replace them. I'm confused..lol

if they can be replaced with part that will get me more or less equal performance on 2142/bf2 then by all means replace away.

@ des.kmal

my current rig:


athlon 3000+ 754 pin
K8ns-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mobo - by gigabyte
160gb hdd
1 gb generic unmatched cant-believe-it-works-together-bought-separately ram
radeon 9550 256mb (AGP)

piece of shit, eh?


PS: is it a more intellegent decision to go with 939 or AM2 CPU socket. i've heard that amd is moving away from 939, right?


edit:

@flaming_maniac: i just wanted to know what your reasoning behind that decision was. i just don't like to be a lemming, is all.

its not a POS comp, just not high end.   anyway, yes, AMD is going to AM2, moving away from 939. also, PLEASE dont wast 40$ unless you ahve it, which you dont because you are trying to cut costs... on a 7950, get a 7900gs, best bang for buck at this point in time.

then later, upgrade to a 8800GTX or GTS

i changed it

and its more like 100

edit: Kmal is my new bf2s god. my dad's probably going to say yes to this list now .

Last edited by Ender2309 (2006-12-14 17:23:40)

my pop said yes. you guys= my favorite evAr!!!111!!!one

I would cut on the Processor. An Athlon 4200+ X2... Oh wait. I just found out that in the US that stupid Athlon thing is way cheaper than the E6300. Then get it ^^

Just one more thing:
GeIL Ultra 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 is better than that RAM you got listed there. And the same price.

personally i would go for

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819103542

i know its $20 dollars more but the 1MB cache is more suited to games so if you can save $20 on you graphics card this will help remember you need to try not to have a bottleneck anywhere is you system, so this chip should last you through the gpu you get now and with some overclocking may even be ok for DX10 cards (technically this chip is the same as the FX62, the FX62 is just the same core clocked higher, granted you would need some extra cooling but thats only on the next upgrade).

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/11/29/ge … st_cpu_uk/

the conroe's seem best with DX10 but using 939 there were surprising results so with AM2 you should have a platform that can keep you going for quite a while(and keep pace with intel)

ps intel fan-boys please read the second link before flaming commences good luck dude !

Last edited by kalisti (2006-12-15 08:57:53)

Stormscythe wrote:

I would cut on the Processor. An Athlon 4200+ X2... Oh wait. I just found out that in the US that stupid Athlon thing is way cheaper than the E6300. Then get it ^^

Just one more thing:
GeIL Ultra 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 is better than that RAM you got listed there. And the same price.

a mobo supporting ddr2 800 is too expensive for me right now.