[nearmiss]

AMD's quad core thing isn't working out very well but the Intel one, the Core2Quad Q6600 2.4ghz cpu, is SCREAMING (and before this cpu I was an AMD user since 1998). Even with stock cooling 90+ percent of them will do 3ghz. Everyone I know who has one either runs it at 3.2 or 3.6 -- EVERY SINGLE PERSON. The thing is pure sickness, and multiple cores are the wave of the future. Games can very easily take advantage of multiple cores, its not nearly as tough as, say, writing a new engine from scratch for DX10. :wink:

Edit: And you are correct about Fry's but it is funny you say that because I just bought the first thing I've bought from them since 2002 or so, my wife's Core2Quad Q6600 cpu a week ago when they had a sale for 179.99 vs Newegg's price of 249.99 -- SICK EH. It went fine but I did buy it online and not at an actual Fry's store. They even delivered it to my door 22 hours after I ordered via the cheapest shipping method available, DHL ground!

The last two computers I built I used AMD processoers and memory I bought at Fry's the price was right and the products - Corsair or Patriot Memory and AMD or Intel. .. Well Fry's can't mess with that, because the companies have very strict qualtiy control.

I visited with a rep from Intel a while back, and he advised if I bought a highly recognized name brand Mobo at Fry's it should be fine. I've always found Mobo better priced than Fry's.

I recently bought the Acer X241W 24 LCD monitor from MicroCenter. They had a $100 rebate on $399 purchase. I got the rebate about 60 days later, but I did get. My brother bought a monitor from Fry's with a rebate and he got a lawyer buddy to write them a letter and got his rebate directly from Fry's. It can be done,but most of us would have to pay the lawyer.