CompUSA Sale

[Jack]

--- On Fri, 6/17/11, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: CompUSA Sale
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 2:23 PM
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> On 06/17/2011 04:17 PM, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > My dad forwarded this add to me: 
> > http://www.compusa.com/email/compusa/COMEM853.asp?SRCCODE=COMEM853TT&cm_mmc=EML-_-Main-_-COMEM853-_-compusaemail853
> > 
> > Looks like it might be a pretty good deal - any
> comments?
> > 

> Well, it was a good CPU in its day, for sure. 99% of
> reviewers on NewEgg
> gave it 4 or 5 eggs.
> 
> Thing is, it's EOL:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103648
> 
> So you're buying an obsolete CPU. Not necessarily a bad

EOL? I run my business desktop on this obsolete CPU. Maybe not this exact model, but close enough. There are still plenty of systems on the market that are far less powerful than this. I wouldn't EOL it just yet. It still falls in the middle range of rankings of currently available CPUs. Nothing stellar, but more than enough to power Dad's PC.
It's got 8GB of RAM and a 1.5 TB drive and a 1GB video card. That's a rock solid deal. Heck you should buy this deal just for that. You can always get a better CPU, but with that video card, I doubt you'll need it.

I may get 4 for my render farm.

Jack