Intel vs. AMD

I've used bill me later at newegg. 90 days same as cash. only thing is it can only be used for purchases of $250 or more. you can check into newegg prefered account also. 6 months same as cash on purchases of $500 or more.

 

So let me get this right.

You HAVE six months to fully pay?

Can you pay it off over a length of time or is the six months the limit?

 

same as above

 

Well, here, PM'd aabbccdd

 

OMG, i wish i could do that.

is there anyone in the UK that does that?

or do newegg ship to the uk?

 

No, newegg is a US only company.

*to all uk users here* HA! HA! HA!

I love teh newegg.

 

If only!
Quite a few places used to offer Buy Now Pay Later deals. Ebuyer still do:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/help/index.html?rb=0&action=ZmluYW5jZV9oZWxw#bnpl
Aria also offer BNPL
http://www.aria.co.uk/Support/Online+Finance

 

thanks. even then we get shunted on prices

 

Indeed we do. That's something I've had to put up with for a while. Wasn't long ago I paid £327 for a $399 Graphics card.

 

OHHHHHHH

this nearly 1.5x the original price....

but then again, we earn more. (well in london where i live, anyways)

 

sammorris & REAM,

I checked the price of my G.Skill and it's $89.99 USD at Newegg. At the current exchange rate, that should be about 45 Pounds. In reality the best UK price I could find was 66 Pounds including VAT. That kind of sucks!

Clock On,
theone

 

I be ordering my parts today. Nobody had an objection so here goes

I'm excited about the 680i board. They're arguably the best for Core 2 Duo. And the Mushkin Extreme Performance should give me a nice stable OC at higher speeds than my Patriot could safely hit.

And the Armor Series Case will be a godsend. The 8800GTX has about a half inch of clearance from the drive cages. So the Armor should be considerably roomier.

 

Estuansis,

Good luck with your new build!

Clock On,
Russ

 

Thank you!

But I see it as the same build in spirit as long as I have the same CPU. So I'll still call it my EhFrau(german for wife) lol.

 

spiritually I still think my PC the same as it was new, yet the CPU & motherboard havechanged. Numerous parts including the case are still the same. However it probably won't be too long before I change the board again. It's unstable stock! Running at 3Ghz is ok, but if I set it back to 1.8Ghz linked, it will occasionally BSOD and restart when I play a file in mediaplayer classic.

 

sammorris,

I changed everything but the case and one case fan. I bought new MB, memory, CPU, CPU cooler, 40mm NB cooler, PS, video card, 120mm Silverstone case fan, hard drive, DVD-Rom and DVDRW. For all intents and purposes, what with considering it's a higher class of computer compared to the D-940, so it's a new build!

Clock On,
theone

 

I also see my AMD in the same spirit as my oldest dual core. My grandpa gave the X2 3800+ to me as a gift and it's what really started me on the path to faster and better things. Almost everything but the case has changed but I still see it as the PC my grandpa gave me.

And the intel has REALLY changed from when I built it. I started with a P4 540(still gonna keep it) I got for $30, then a 640 shortly thereafter. But when I saw the amazing performance of Conroe I bit the bullet and got my e6600. I did kinda throw my money away on the 640 but it ended up being part of a customer gamer build for my friend's cousin.

So in a few months I jumped 3 CPUs until I found my favorite so far. I kinda jumped the gun several times but now I have a keeper. And soon I'll have even better parts for it.

I hope that'll stay as my final build as long as Core 2 Duo stays popular. Which I suspect it will for at least as long as the Pentium 4 did. I mean, It's just under a year old so far, right?

 

the only hardware I caried over from my old P4 rig is a 300gb hdd, a lite-on 165H6S dvdrw, and a benq DW1650 dvdrw. everything else was completely new. I still managed to build it for under $1,300. I put a benq DW1620 in my old pc and it already had a 80gb hdd so it was still fully functional.

my P4 rig is long gone as I sold it to my brother and used the money from it to put a big down payment on my Dell E1505 C2D 1.66ghz laptop pc. funny thing is my laptop with only a C2D 1.66ghz cpu is about the same speed as the P4 northwood 3.4ghz OC'ed to 3.6ghz was.

I've been considering getting an expresscard sound blaster X-Fi extreme audio notebook sound card that just came out.

 

Mort81,

Funny about that most apps in a laptop are single threaded. My boss has one and it's not as fast as my 3.0 Prescot OC'd to 3.71! Single threaded apps are a great equalizer! LOL!! The 1505 is also a different core. Mermon, I think and they don't have the speed of the E series. The E4300 at 1.8GHz would be a great deal faster than either your old northwood or the 1505!

Clock On,
theone

 

theone,

very true but my T5500 C2D at 1.66ghz will tear up an intel pentium M at 1.73ghz. I was comparing speeds of the T5500 @ 1.66ghz and the P4 3.4 @ 3.6ghz when using rb/cce to encode the same folder. the times were almost identical. neither are even in the same ballpark as my E6600 @ 3.6ghz.