[vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting

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Pricewatch is by far my favorite choice, but i'll sometimes check
www.nextag.com as they have a nice way of searching that includes
shipping to a zip code included.

Of course google wants in on the action with froogle.google.com...

Mark


--- Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> wrote:
> based on specs (haven't read reviews yet), this is the motherboard of
> my
> dreams:
> 
> Thunder K8W (S2885)
> 
>    dual opteron
>    dual memory channels (4 PC2700 DDR EEC for each CPU)
>    SATA
>    AGP 8x/PRO 110W
>    USB 1.2 (oh well.  can't have everything)
>    integrated stuff i'll never use
> 
> the only thing i can't find is which opterons the board supports, so
> i'm
> assuming it'll take me all the way up to opteron 248.
> 
> 
> one problem: it's pricey.  pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436
> in
> CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex.  at that price,
> i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU.  :)
> 
> i've always bought my stuff through pricewatch because other than a
> few
> years ago when memory prices shot sky high, hardware has been so
> cheap
> the past 5 years.  it wasn't worth my time to bargain hunt for 10 or
> 20
> bucks.
> 
> have people found better prices than what pricewatch lists?  are
> there
> any favorite price hunting sites that people have been using lately?
> 
> thanks,
> pete
> 
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