** SOLD OUT ** -- AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Boxed CPU /w ECS N2U400-A Motherboard - $99.99

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** SOLD OUT ** -- AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Boxed CPU /w ECS N2U400-A Motherboard - $99.99

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http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4062752

Outpost has a decent deal on an AMD Athlon XP 2700+ boxed CPU with ECS N2U400-A motherboard. Shipping is a little under $5. Comes with built in Lan, USB 2, 6 channel audio. Supports up to XP 3200+ and 2GB 3200DDR.
 
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Are you sure it comes with built in graphic card?

Here are the Specs:
Special Features
FSB 400
Dual Channel DDR400
AGP 8X <----------------------- This is a slot for an AGP card
6 Channel Audio
Color Map
10/100 Lan
Processor
Socket 462 for AMD AthlonXP/Athlon/Duron processors
FSB
400/333/266/200 MHz
Chipset
nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 & MCP
LAN
VIA® VT6103L 10/100 Mbps Faster Ethernet controller
IDE
2 UltraDMA 100 / 66
Expansion Slots
1 AGP 8X slot
5 PCI
Form Factors
ATX Form Factor, 305*244mm
Memory
3x184-pin DIMM sockets support two 2.5V DDR SDRAMs (Dual-DDR400/333/266/200)
Maximum: 2 GB for DDR 400, 3GB for DDR333
Audio
CMI 9739A 6-channel CODEC
Compliant with AC97 2.2 specification
Back Panel I/O Ports
1 x PS/2 keyboard
1 x PS/2 mouse
1 x Parallel Port
1 x Serial Port
4 x USB 2.0 Ports
1 x RJ 45 Port
1 x Audio I/O (Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in)
Internal I/O Connectors & Header
20-pin ATX Power Supply connector
4-pin ATX 12V Power Supply connector
Dual PCI IDE interfaces, 4 IDE devices
360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
1 x S/PDIF out header, 1 x CD-in header
1x USB card reader header
1 x USB 2.0 header support additional 2 USB ports (USB3)
HDD LED, ACPIMSG LED, Reset Switch, Power Switch headers
CPU / Power / Chassis FAN connectors
Front Panel MIC/Line-in out header
BIOS
Award 2Mb Flash EEPROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Muli Boot, DMI
Full Support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification

I don't see any indication that this board includes video.
But for this price who cares. The processor alone is woth the price. The board is for free.
So anyway it is a great deal!!!!!!!!
Thanks
 
According to the specifications listed on the website, this board does NOT have built in graphics. It has an AGP slot but no built in graphics/
 
ECS is a very bad motherboard

Living in CA I have Frys Electronics in my back yard (outpost.com is Frys Electronics). The have SO MANY ECS motherboards at their store that I think I could build a house out of them. Most of them (75%) are returns from peolpe that purchased it.
In CA (Northern) Frys has specials every weekend, most of them for motherboard & CPU combo are for the ECS motherboard & they range from $49 - $109.

ECS motherboards most common problem is that they do not like certain types of memory, it is actually hard to find a memory that will be read by that mobo correctly (aspecially the speed).

Do a search on google.com for ECS & look at other forums, you will see what people think about it, especially their customer support. ( two weeks to return your call ---- too long for me)

Mark
 
I THOUGHT THE "nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 & MCP "
PROCESSOR HAD VIDEO CAPABILITIES.... ITS NVIDIA AFTER ALL...
 
N2U400-A does not have on-board graphics, as mentioned before...who cares, this still is a hell of a deal.
 
I have recently purchased two of the ECS MoBo's mentioned in this deal from Fry's Electronics/Outpost.com. One for a friend at work the other for family. Niether of the boards had been purchased and returned. Both were very well layed out and easy to install. The BIOS is straight forward - No overclocking features. There is NO onboard graphics with this board. I had no problems with memory. One system took budget Corsair PC2700 256MB the other recieved no-name PC3200 512MB with ease. For the money you cant go wrong. Trying to price out the CPU alone would cost more. Upgrading the CPU is not possible. If you looking for a bare 3200 CPU the cheapest I have found it is http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hmx?SCriteria=ba03123

Happy computing
 
MexIndian said:
I THOUGHT THE "nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 & MCP "
PROCESSOR HAD VIDEO CAPABILITIES.... ITS NVIDIA AFTER ALL...
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Thats the chipset and audio card I'm pretty sure as my board has it aswell but obviously it's not video.
 
MexIndian said:
I THOUGHT THE "nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 & MCP "
PROCESSOR HAD VIDEO CAPABILITIES.... ITS NVIDIA AFTER ALL...
Click to expand...
The nVidia nForce2 Ultra400 refers to the northbridge controller chip (for AGP and PCI slots) and the MCP refers to the southbridge chip (for memory and other things). They are the controller chips that help with communication between the CPU and the peripherals on the board.

If I understand right, the nVidia chip in it is something that nVidia came out with as a way to help them sell more stuff (lots of northbridge chips means extra income?) and something to help them make their graphics cards work even better with motherboards since they have designed and produced both the graphics card (if its an nVidia card) and the northbridge chip handling the communication between the CPU and the AGP card.

So, even though the board does not have graphics built in to it you should have a very nice, extremely compatible chipset in there for any nVidia card you want to put in. Just because you are using an nVidia northbridge chip you are not limited to using only nVidia cards, though.

Now that I have written all of this I should point out that I do not have a board with an nVidia chipset or an nVidia graphics card so I do not have any first-hand experience with this. Everything I have written is based on knowledge and information gathered from reading documentation and other people's experience with these things.
 
Shultz put it well I myself use an Sapphire (ATI) graphics card and I couldn't be happier just whatever you do for audio DO NOT update the drivers with Microsofts ones,totally screwed me up.
 
On the page is says, "Product currently unavailable." I don't see any indication anywhere if they will restock or have an equivalent offer.
 
ecs is garbage folks, even when you can get it to work its very slow compared to other boards with similar chipsets. basicaly ecs is a gamble for a cheap system. if it works and your happy, great but its not worth the potential hassle.
 
I was looking at buying this combo awhile back and a friend (Fry's Employee) told me to stay away from ECS. The issue with the memory was a question then too, so I spent more money and got Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 with the onboard ATA/SATA Raid controller and support for ATA 133. I'm glad I went with this board instead of the ECS
 
Case said:
Shultz put it well I myself use an Sapphire (ATI) graphics card and I couldn't be happier just whatever you do for audio DO NOT update the drivers with Microsofts ones,totally screwed me up.
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They screwed me up too. That was a nightmare. :cry:
 
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