Phenom II: An AMD that actually is on the "buy" list!

[pwalker1]

I just did a quick check on ebay and there is a fx-60 with a thermalright heatsink with bids going for over $200

[Cyber]

I just did a quick check on ebay and there is a fx-60 with a thermalright heatsink with bids going for over $200

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.

[wakeboarder]

"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

[Cyber]

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.

[MrBrett]

my disadvantage is two fold, Vista 64bit is a bear at top end clocking (prolly lose 100 to 200 MHZ to 32bit OS), and clocking with an older sb600 chipset is not optimal....

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.