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**Flasherly[_2_]** · September 13th 14, 04:02 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 04:10:41 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

No wonder it had been sitting unsold for years.
Not a bargain after all!

I remember Jetway, they go back a long way. Never did have much
credence, tho, strictly bottom of the heap. Working condition for
effectively nothing does tend to redefine the perspective, and 65watts
is better than 95 or 125watts in my book. Especially when you know
better than to use anything "unofficially" more. My AMD2 Gigabyte is
a better MB, I bought new for real MB money, not off some slag heap,
and though I am now disappointed at a severity of limitations for the
MB, even if I could trade it for an AMD3 Jetway, I wouldn't.

It's support chips do run hot, not to rule out an Intel videochip on
that particular MB. Nor is a 65watt ADO4200IAA5DD helpful in that
regard -- a better processor possibly involving a higher wattage CPU,
600Mhz faster at 2.8Ghz, I can swing off Ebay for $10-15. Looking at
them the other day, as a matter of fact. Only, I don't see much past
middling benchmarked parity, really, in what upgrade prospects I do
have.

Now, take that LGA774 Gigabyte and a completely different story - much
more robust, value and performance options in the Intel field (pretty
much Conroe processors). Enough to give pause before AMD3/+ possibly
for considering the next generation of Land Grid Arrays.

I got a sneaking, lowdown, suspicious feeling about something I'd
never live to see -- that Intel, price/value wise would ever consider
selling a bulk of its processor offerings at direct cost-per-umph
value, where AMD has traditionally held its ground. Intel has always
spelled premium, and that's what you pay. Obviously, I'm very biased
against Intel. It's like eating my own straw hat to consider LGA1155.
Whenever. I'd have to dig in deeper for pricing options, only seeing
cream rise lately from nanoarchitecture, and another Intel score, on
Haswells;- rather nor really, quite the deal, as much as a game, when
the Haswell processor has already popped up a couple times on Newegg
"flash sales," coupled with a MB to effectively cost average either/or
to a $15 MB/CPU: One-hundred percent markup off wholesale at roughly
$70 is how to read that go-to-jail card.

Nor, equally obvious, would any MB involved in such a sale be one to
write home to mom about. (I neither especially like a lot of these
newer namebrands in MBs - MSI/Gigabyte, & I just can't afford no
stinkin' ASUS for $300.)