Anyone know who has them in stock? Looking retail box, but will settle with tray if have to.

5/2/2008 1:45:20 PM

i'll tell you if you promise to run folding@home on it

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5/2/2008 1:49:53 PM

next major shipment is May 5th...

5/2/2008 1:59:40 PM

I already have 3 machines on Folding at Home... Looks like the cheapest instock I have found is $390 total on eBay for a new one in retail box.

5/2/2008 4:37:07 PM

oh my bad, whats your name on there?

5/2/2008 4:43:15 PM

sweeeeet

5/2/2008 4:49:01 PM

yeah, I've been trying to get one or two of these suckers. Fry's canceled my order earlier this week. God, they need to get a live inventory tracking feature for their website.

5/2/2008 8:27:31 PM

anyone fine a vendor with this in stock at a decent price?

5/6/2008 2:06:55 PM

I have pretty much given up on locating one "in stock". It seems that all that come in are pre-ordered and I am left out.

So what I have done over the weekend is place a backorder with Buy.com and Amazon.com which both have it on-order. The only reason that I placed a on-order with them is because they let you cancel the order any time without fee's if you do so before the item becomes in stock. Most smaller places will not allow you to cancel a pre-order once you placed it. This way I can cancel them if I locate it somewhere or if one of the two beats the other.

But, with the processor being known for >4.0GHz overclocked. I doubt you will ever see it on a store shelve.

By the way if anyone wanted to know the specs of my new machine I am putting together...

Motherboard: ASUS P5E3 PREMIUM/WIFI-AP @n X48 $379
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 or Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (if I can find one soon!) ~$354
Memory: Corsair DDR3-1600 XMS3 DHX 4GB (2x2GB) 9-9-9-24 PC3-12800 $299 ZipZoomFly.com baby!!!
Hard Drives: 2x (Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB) $169 each
DVD Drives: 2x SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA $25 each Newegg.com !!!
Case: Antec Nine Hundred $119 buy from Intrex, no shipping charge!
Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W $124
Video Card: ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/512M GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 $189

5/6/2008 3:37:33 PM

damn that is one expensive-ass machine.

5/6/2008 3:58:46 PM

yes, parts are very expensive now-a-days

but at least there are a few rebates on some stuff... but you will never avoid the premium prices on mobo, proc, ram.

I actually saved a shit ton on memory, average for 4GB of DDR3 1600 was well over $400 got it for $300.

5/6/2008 4:01:32 PM

Dont forget its tax stimulus time, SO take off $600 and its about $1300, not to bad, very affordable.

5/6/2008 4:03:34 PM

are you building a time machine?

5/6/2008 4:12:27 PM

Its not the greatest machine i ever built, actually its been several years since I upgraded... only thing i cheaped out on was the video card, I could have chosen a 9800 but why spend $600 on graphics when I don't play games, my main goal was processing power.

5/6/2008 4:16:55 PM

379$ for a single-socket motherboard?

hahahahahahahahahaha

you got clowned

5/6/2008 7:47:52 PM

you can get a striker II for like 250

5/6/2008 8:20:31 PM

Quote :

"379$ for a single-socket motherboard? hahahahahahahahahaha you got clowned"

yep

5/6/2008 8:35:20 PM

Wanted a X48 chipset board, with DDR3 ram. Plus its just released so it will cost a little extra being so new.

5/6/2008 9:30:51 PM

you don't play games, yet you bought an 8800GTS? you know you could've gotten and 8600GS for half that price.

5/6/2008 10:16:52 PM

Why is everyone worrying about how much things costs? I never said that the price was bothering me.

^ also to note, NVIDIA never made a 8600GS http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 11:10 PM. Reason : .]

5/6/2008 11:08:05 PM

the 8600 GS was an OE card for several companies. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=51194

5/6/2008 11:28:09 PM

i think he meant 8600GT

[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 11:35 PM. Reason : n/m]

5/6/2008 11:34:31 PM

damnit, some places have them in stock but are selling them at $500... what a rip off.

5/7/2008 5:47:21 AM

I know you saved $50 on the ram but I feel that the loose timings are going to kill your bandwidth. May I suggest http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220275 since you are building a bad a$$ number cruncher and not a gaming rig.

5/8/2008 8:01:10 AM

^ Yes, I previously looked at that memory on newegg, but the reviews and problem people were having with the timings in particular made me feel uncomfortable with it. Plus it $100 more than the Corsair at ZipZoomFly.

I looked all over for ram, and the simple fact of the matter was, if I wanted to get great timings on the memory say 7-7-7-20 or so, it was going to cost me $550+ for 4GB (2x2GB). I wasnt prepared to pay that much.

I had planned on getting the 9-9-9-24 and testing it a bit, and seeing if its good enough for me. I dont feel from a theory that I am going to notice it at all. But for $300 the 4GB, 9-9-9-24 was a great buy.

5/8/2008 11:07:16 AM

Oh ok. At least you researched ram and didnt just see a sale and want them.

5/8/2008 11:45:12 AM

Now in stock at amazon through tigerdirect.

5/9/2008 11:47:33 AM

so exactly why did you choose to jump to DDR3? i haven't seen anything yet that justifies the a) cost or b) performance.

it still seems expensive and nearly all the DDR3 i've seen has horrible timings (yes i know timings are looser than DDR2 by default) but STILL... doesn't seem to help performance by much.

5/9/2008 12:46:44 PM

well, since most of the new motherboards are DDR3 only, thats the way things are going...

later on down the road I will be able to put better timing ram in it, but I wasn't really worried how much it costs

as for the dual socket response, i wasnt ready to spend twice the amount on the three main parts, proc, ram, mb

5/9/2008 12:54:24 PM

X38, X48? P35? nforce 780i? these are all semi-new chipsets that support DDR2, not ALL new chipsets are DDR3

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 1:08 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2008 1:07:19 PM

and I picked X48, so?

by the way TigerDirect is now sold out again of the Q9450's.

5/9/2008 3:07:13 PM

400$ for a board is quite comfortably into dual socket territory, and 350$ for the processor leaves you room to drop back a couple speed ratings on the processor while still nearly doubling your performance

5/11/2008 7:50:05 AM

GO! GO! GO!
$299
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0287628

5/12/2008 11:39:21 AM

Cant buy this from micro-center online, you have to luck out and one of the Brick and Mortor store have one.... Thats a long shot, no one has these! Micro-Center is famous for doing this, its basically a draw to get you into the store. And often you can read reports of, if you call them they want tell if they have any in stock, only to come and see!

Just got my tracking number for mine I ordered from Amazon through TigerDirect on Friday!!!!

[Edited on May 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

5/12/2008 11:44:24 AM

yeah their marketing efforts suck ass.

5/13/2008 12:04:01 AM

Tigerdirect says they're in stock now. I just ordered mine tonight, expected ship date tomorrow.

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 6:22 AM. Reason : oh you already knew that]

5/14/2008 6:21:22 AM

Congrat's!

Mine is being delivered today!

Looking forward to overclocking to 3.2GHz, its really a great value to buy a $350 processor and get the performance of the Core 2 Extreme ($1200).

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM. Reason : .]

5/14/2008 11:01:04 AM

FRY's has these in stock for $339.99

http://shop2.frys.com/product/5539940

5/14/2008 1:33:30 PM

dammit, just bought some other things, hopefully it'll be in stock next week when I can order it.

5/14/2008 11:14:15 PM

my 2.4ghz quad oc'd to 3.12ghz with just an fsb increase

5/15/2008 9:00:13 AM