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I think I will skip this generation of CPUs...my current one's still plenty fast.
I do appreciate AMD finally getting back into the ballgame, lets just hope they can have these sell well.
if the Athlon 64s didn't come out a few years back we'd still be stuck with an overpriced intel pentium 4 reiteration of one sort of another.
it's a great jump from K8-like performance to penryn-like performance without having to swap motherboards. but i agree. conroe/kentsfield arch is good enough and nehalem is not the leap intel said it would be, particular for its cost.
Off topic.Does anyone remember what the FX-60 sold for?
When it was new around $900 street price. They are hard to find these days, and still fetch a nice price. Being the best cpu you can get for socket 939.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyber
Wow and people now think, that putting out $300 for a Quad is too much?
I have that FX,got it in 07 for $350 along with a free mobo and case.
I just did a quick check on ebay and there is a fx-60 with a thermalright heatsink with bids going for over $200:eek:
I tell you the truth,if it wasn't for the desire to upgrade I had.I would still be using that FX-60,I o'ced to 2.8 @ stock v and it runs great.Quote:
Originally Posted by pwalker1
"I tell you the truth,if it wasn't for the desire to upgrade I had.I would still be using that FX-60,I o'ced to 2.8 @ stock v and it runs great. "
I came to that conclusion after buying one and then sold it. Then reinstalled my x2 3800 like 2 years ago MY 939 board lasted 3+ years still plays COD world at war sweet and any other game the 8800gt helps
but she died when the Northbridge fan went out unnoticed last week now I’m in the market to upgrade although I do realize it's a sickness but I have been so good:)
Wake
My kid still runs it,the board is a K8N-Neo4 with 2 gigs of Kingston Hyper X.
An ASUS 6800GT stock is the video part.
I hear the SB600 is a serious limiting factor in overclocking of the Phenom II's. That chip just can't handle overclocking well. Getting one of the newer boards alone would probably net you 200 mhz at least, on the kind of cooling you were talking about. Although I agree that AMD over hyped the overclocking capability. I haven't heard of anyone actually hitting 4 GHz on air cooling with one of the retail chips yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by bldegle2