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Until March 8th, 2006, get nForce motherboards for free with an AMD FX-55

NVIDIA has worked out a deal with a number of etailers to give away free nForce 4 SLI motherboards for free if the customers purchases an Athlon FX-55. Considering that AMD has positioned its FX-60 as the flagship enthusiast processor, FX-55 units must be moved out. The FX-55 is still a formidable processor, delivering some of the best performance still seen today. It is however, not a dual-core processor, so those who are looking for such may have to look elsewhere.

The deal apparently ends on March 8th, so there's not much time left.

The etailers that are participating in this promotion include: Motherboard choices are available from ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI.



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Ya really!
By tjr508 on 3/1/2006 5:51:15 PM , Rating: 2
Completly sweet if it was a
3000+
3700+
3800+ (X2)
Opteron 165

I guess part of targeting the enthusiasts market is everyone has enough since not to buy clocked up versions when even AMDs 9x multiplier chips reach 2.5ghz with ease at 1.525v or so.

Looks liek they gotta pull some new tricks out of the ol hat to sell the higher clocked models.




RE: Ya really!
By bighairycamel on 3/1/2006 5:53:54 PM , Rating: 2
Ditto all those. For ~330 the Opteron 165 will overclock well past the FX-55 to the level of the FX-60 (minus the extra L1 cache) on AIR!


RE: Ya really!
By Myrandex on 3/1/2006 10:12:48 PM , Rating: 2
Umm the Opty's and the FX Dual Core have the same amounts of L1 cache (and L2 cache).
Jason


RE: Ya really!
By bighairycamel on 3/2/2006 7:09:14 AM , Rating: 2
All except the FX-60 which I specifically referred to.

Opty 165
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
64+64KB L1 cache

FX-60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
128+128 L1 cache


I'm still to poor for that combo.
By latino666 on 3/1/2006 5:19:01 PM , Rating: 2
How about that same idea but with the Athlon X2 3800+?




By phatboye on 3/1/2006 5:26:04 PM , Rating: 3
Yeah that deal would have been sweet if it was a X2 CPU onstead of a FX CPU.


By MrSmurf on 3/1/2006 6:18:30 PM , Rating: 2
I think the price may be a difference here... may.


ATI 3200
By Spinne on 3/1/2006 6:26:16 PM , Rating: 3
Is this Nvidia's response to the ATI 3200 chipset?




RE: ATI 3200
By johnford64 on 3/1/2006 10:50:31 PM , Rating: 2
buddy, a little late arent you? The Nvidia SLI X16 chipset has been out for months. I have had mine since around 2 months before the RD*4*80 was released, so i would say that this is ATI's response!


RE: ATI 3200
By Cript on 3/2/2006 6:18:26 PM , Rating: 2
I believe he means nvidia is responding to ATI's new chip by creating this "deal"

I bought a retail fx-55 in may last year for $700 brand new. I find it hard to believe the price has barely changed for a cpu that came out in what, oct of 2004?


Pretty wishful thinking here...
By Sanctusx2 on 3/1/2006 6:48:14 PM , Rating: 5
Um, they wouldn't be offering the promotion to clear out FX-55 s if everyone was buying them. So I would think the reason that you don't see this pairing with the best-selling cpus is pretty self-evident.




The processors arn't discounted
By Schmide on 3/1/2006 5:28:22 PM , Rating: 3
The total lameness of this deal confounds me.

At a couple of sites, I didn't check out all of them, the FX-57 and the FX-55 were the same price. Whether or not you get the motherboard. So they're basically adding the price of the motherboard to the chip. Duh. Lame. Sucky.




Why no Newegg?
By SunAngel on 3/1/2006 5:41:09 PM , Rating: 3
Ditto!




By JarredWalton on 3/3/2006 2:16:08 AM , Rating: 3
Let's see, I just bought:

http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=393... Opteron 146 $216
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=FAN-CLP114&c=pw Big Typhoon $45
http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=220... DFI SLI-D $163

Total: $424.

I could buy two of those (almost) for the price of this "free motherboard" deal. Did I mention that the system is happily running at 280x10 for the equivalent of an FX-57? That's at 1.450V and 49 C max CPU. Oh well - this is a "guaranteed" 2.6 GHz, all for the low price of $820.




dual core
By Rampage on 3/1/2006 5:31:32 PM , Rating: 2
For my money, I'd rather have a low end dual core than a high end single core.
Yep. Even though I enjoy games!




Soon old
By Lega Nord on 3/1/2006 6:49:54 PM , Rating: 2
Well, there is a new platform coming up, so dump the 939 stock




Know what
By shaw on 3/1/2006 8:55:01 PM , Rating: 2
FX-55, what a strange choice of processor. Obviously just a way of trying to clear inventory.




A better deal.
By drunkenmastermind on 3/2/2006 1:36:29 AM , Rating: 2
I would rather have a DX-33.




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