I know it’s cheesy sounding, but I didn’t have anything to else to talk about, so I wanted to show you some great deals I’ve found on the intarwebs during my browsing sessions the past week or so:

nVidia 6600 GT AGP for below $100 at 3B Tech

While I’m personally an ATI guy myself, I have to pay obeisance to the raw power that was the nVidia 6600 GT in its time. This card was — and for the AGP slot, still is — one of the fastest cards that was ever produced. It was like a fire-breathing dragon, eating up any benchmark or performance test you could throw at it.

And now it could be yours, for below a hundred bucks. I can’t even begin to imagine what it must’ve cost brand new back in the day.

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Pentium III-S Tualatin 1.26GHz for $25 at StarMicro

Well, this site has a weird name (and their layout is rather… spartan), but they have great reviews on “Pricewatch.com”:http://pricewatch.com, so I trust it.

What you’re looking at is one of the “Tualatin” core CPU’s that Intel made in the waning years of the Socket 370 platform. It was the last inception of the Pentium III, introduced in 2001-02, and it was by far the fastest — faster even than many inceptions of the Pentium IV (I’ve tested this personally myself).

Right now it’s a _damn_ good deal because, with a simple slot adapter, you can put one on many old Socket 370 boards (all of we computer aficionados have a couple of _those_ laying around). Doing this will give you a computer just about up to par with anything you could have today (save the fastest and most expensive new chips).

This site, “http://starmicro.net”:StarMicro.net, also has a good selection of PC133 SDRAM, including some hard to find low-density chips… those are getting harder and harder to find these days.