From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 22:59:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3121F16A402 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from green.dls.net (green.dls.net [209.242.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DA913C45E for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from emailrob.com (216-145-235-166.rev.dls.net [216.145.235.166]) by green.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8850E411EC4 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:38:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46180F62.6040309@emailrob.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:38:42 +0100 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fbsd_chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [ot] seeking usa vendor of two_year_old technology X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:59:58 -0000 yes, this --is-- off_topic, but i --am-- going to install freebsd on them, so please don't flame me too badly. i've spent yesterday and today seeking a usa vendor of intel mobos. i'm buying parts for 12 systems, using the 865g, 915g and 945g chipsets and a mix of appropriate p4 and cd in the lga775 package. my frustration is that the major online retailers have a distinct "latest, greatest and most expensive" mindset, i guess because their target market only buys one machine at a time. specifically, i seek the boxd865gsal and boxd915gavl, four of each. i haven't identified the 945 yet, but i find lots of those, so far, so i'm not worried. i --did-- find one vendor, "ncix", that claims it will special order these [ two weeks ], but i've never heard of them [ that doesn't mean they're bad, of course ]. intel's website considers these to be current product. anyone in the reselling game on this list ? anyone care to recommend a vendor with whom they have had good fortune ? anyone have access to intel's distributors ? i send this as a shot in the dark. thanks in advance. rob