XFX Radeon HD 6850 CF + ST31000528AS - $438.84 Shipped @ Newegg

imho its not much of a deal.. 369 for a pair of the saphire/gigabyte/powercolor/his 6850's.

So in the end its a 70 dollar premium for the warranty & a POS drive.
 
Not a very good deal. Very specialized in its nature. Someone who is putting 6850s in CF is doing so for bang-for-your-buck performance, and the HDD in that combo adds $35 to the final out-of-pocket price.

If you sold the HDD then it would be better.
 
bore_u2_death said:
Not a very good deal. Very specialized in its nature. Someone who is putting 6850s in CF is doing so for bang-for-your-buck performance, and the HDD in that combo adds $35 to the final out-of-pocket price.

If you sold the HDD then it would be better.
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the hard drive is barely worth the 35 bucks.. If it were a Samsung f3 or WD Blue it would be another story though.
 
bastage said:
imho its not much of a deal.. 369 for a pair of the saphire/gigabyte/powercolor/his 6850's.

So in the end its a 70 dollar premium for the warranty & a POS drive.
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bastage said:
the hard drive is barely worth the 35 bucks.. If it were a Samsung f3 or WD Blue it would be another story though.
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Oh look another threadcrap by bastage. Seriously. Every sophomorically condescending and bullying post in here is you. The 7200.12's are very fast 500gb/platter drives with quite a following in the Storage section. Definitely not "POS." It's a deal if you need a 1tb drive and were looking at the XFX 6850's.
 
ordovician said:
Oh look another threadcrap by bastage. Seriously. Every sophomorically condescending and bullying post in here is you. The 7200.12's are very fast 500gb/platter drives with quite a following in the Storage section. Definitely not "POS." It's a deal if you need a 1tb drive and were looking at the XFX 6850's.
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It's still not a great deal, you paying $200 for each card and ~$40 for the drive, you can get 1tb drives on sale all the time for $50 (whether or not the seagate is good is another story.
 
munkle said:
It's still not a great deal, you paying $200 for each card and ~$40 for the drive, you can get 1tb drives on sale all the time for $50 (whether or not the seagate is good is another story.
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Yeah, you're right. But still, no need to be mean.
 
ordovician said:
Yeah, you're right. But still, no need to be mean.
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practice what ya preach buddy..

Edit: and for the record. There is also a following that believes the sky is green... Doesn't mean there right.. I also never said that that seagate drive was slow. I said its a POS.. I can also dig through my emails & find the info for all the past RMA's I have had to do on seagate drives to back that up.. Hell I have a Running 30gb IBM 75gxp (ie. the deathstar) that has proven more reliable then any seagate drive I have used from the ".9" series on up)
 
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ordovician said:
Yeah, you're right. But still, no need to be mean.
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really dude...? it actually seems like you may have a history with him and that's what's skewing your perception of what he posted, I didn't see anything "mean" in either of his posts and he's definitely not the only one poo pooing this "deal"...
 
this is a hot deals section of the forum ...

is it a hot deal, no ... is it a deal at all, um i think no

is the hardware good, yes ... no reason really to crap on it
 
I don't think it's a very hot deal either, sorry OP.

Maybe if it were a WD black =)

Or they were 6870's.../drool
 
I think it's a decent deal if this is exactly what you were looking for. I happen to be such a person, too bad I can't afford it right now.
 
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