Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:59:56 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 06:35:12, Bigler David wrote: >Hi all ! > >I just updated my AMD XP 2600+ to an AMD 64-3500+ I wish I could also get AMD 64 3500+ in Israel for WCCC. I do not know if it is possible today to get it in Israel for less than 4000$. It seems that today I have no chance to get something significantly faster than AMD3000(2ghz) unless I pay for somebody who already have a computer to come with it to Israel and go back and I guess that it will cost more than 4000$. AMD 3200(2ghz) that I could buy instead of AMD3000 is probably not significantly different. It seems that even if I am ready to spend 4000$ on a new hardware I cannot get it here or maybe I needed better advisors how to get it inspite of the fact that as far as I know the people who tried to get better hardware for me wasted many hours on that but unfortuantly it seems that they know nothing about the time that it is possible to get things and a week ago they expected that I get the AMD clearly faster. I also understood from them that it is possible to order opteron248 from the company that I ordered the AMD faster than IBM inspite of no quarntee that I will get it and it turns out that the only possiblity to get opteron is to order it directly from IBM and it means price of almost 5000$ and no promise to get it in less than a month(the alternative that I can think about to pay to somebody who go to Israel to give me an opteron is probably more expensive and I also do not get responsibility for the computer in that case). I ordered 8 days ago AMD64 3000(price slighly more than 1000$) and I still did not get it. The people that I ordered from them already have the computer but they still did not install operating system there yesterday so the computer was not ready to be taken from them. They did not work today about it because they do not work on friday and of course they will not work tommorow(saturday is not time that people are working so the computer will not be ready before the first day of the tournament and I guess that I will be able to use it only from the second round). They do not work on friday or on saturday and they start to work again only at the day of the beginning of the tournament. I was also interested in buying opteron248 or opteron250 even if I can get it only near the end of the tournament but unfortunately they can sell only opteron142 or opteron246 that is no option for me. Uri
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