just opened my email, and found one of those "sale" emails from a guatemalan seller.... would you look at that:



sigh.....

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AMD Athlon II X2 440 @ 2.7 GHz (Sempron unlocked)
2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 AMD Black Edition
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX
MSI nVidia GTX460 1GB Hawk
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
Antec TruePower New 650W

I think you're mistaken... "and much more" refers to the included Vapochill unit. Only $999... can't pass that up.

Seriousely, though, I've seen similar ads here in the US. Can't name anything specifically, but I've seen AXP's marked as GHz equal to performance rating.

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crap stuff is what it all is, cheap parts that will die in a few...
i bought an old ss7 (when they were the biggest thing) computer with a 300Mhz k6-2 and it died in a year, now that i know more about computers i think it was psu and/or ram realted.

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QUOTE (sambjo @ Mar 16 2005, 01:57 PM) I think you're mistaken... "and much more" refers to the included Vapochill unit. Only $999... can't pass that up.

Seriousely, though, I've seen similar ads here in the US. Can't name anything specifically, but I've seen AXP's marked as GHz equal to performance rating.
oh well, can't say i blame them. i thought like that like 2 years ago...

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AMD Athlon II X2 440 @ 2.7 GHz (Sempron unlocked)
2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 AMD Black Edition
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX
MSI nVidia GTX460 1GB Hawk
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
Antec TruePower New 650W