What's good cheap AMD to bench?

[Patch]

My 7 year old, bless his little heart, told my wife he wants to get me a "motherboard" for Christmas.

My wife, bless her heart, told him dad "already has one and doesn't need another".

:laughing:

After we had a good chuckle together, I got to thinking this might be a sign from the stars to try a little AMD benching.

I've never benched AMD. Any decent sub $50 AMD boards I can steer them towards that would help the team? (newegg or ebay-style - I'd have to be way too involved for a second hand forums purchase)

Something for which I could easily find cheap buckets of chips.

[GFDuke]

I know the ones i looked at were 200 or more. But as benchers we need the whole 9 yards. You know and i know that cheap and good almost never work together.

[Patch]

I'm talking old tech for hardware bointage.

Ok, doesn't have to be good. Just old and cheap. Think ebay.

[Witchdoctor]

939 boards go pretty cheap these days and tons of chips on that platform that are heavy hardware hiiters

Phenoms will cost you a bit more MC has some decent deal on the new

http://www.microcenter.com/specials/promotions/AMDbundlePROMO.html

http://www.overclock.net/t/1181867/phenom-ii-720-x3-be-am2-am3-gigabyte-ga-ma790x-ud4p-ddr2-4gb-800-ddr2-2gb-677

http://www.overclock.net/t/1181388/feeler-fs-ft-msi-870-g45-am3-motherboard


http://www.overclock.net/t/1165208/asus-m4a78lt-m-am3-mobo

[Patch]

Cool, thanks.

Socket 939 looks like what I'm talking about. This is more about making my little guy glow a bit on Christmas morning than it is about hardcore benching. I can ebay a few CPU's ahead of time so I can say, "Perfect! I have these processors but haven't had a board to put them in!". Then we can prep and bench together during the break. :thumbsup:

Any 939 suggestions with pcie slots? Or with both AGP and PCIE?

[Witchdoctor]

I am not sure they made one with both,

If you get an AGP let me know and I will send you the fasted GeForce 3 Ti500

A8N32SLI deleuxe was a pretty sick board, basically the ROG of that era .... LOL


if XP chips are you bag the 133MHz Abit was king back then

[GFDuke]

I have a A8n sli Deluxe and a A8n SLI Premium Socket 939. I also have a AMD FX 60 s939 cpu. Check out my fs thread. The premium has very few hrs on it.

[HybridChiller]

sempron 145 for Wprime 1x cores

[Splave]

Hey patch look no further, Im going to hook you up. Pm me your address again, I have a nice board for you. No cost for being a great dad.

[Patch]

Thx guys. :thumbsup:

Now to go chip hunting.

[Neuromancer]

For AM2+ AM3 benching, most boards will be fine.

for overclocking nonBE chips you need a AM2/DDR2 board to really push past 50% OC. Biostar has cheap boards that will do it, Gigabyte has some too.

790FX to 990FX I found limited to about 300-315 HTREF clock something like the sempron 140/145 will do that on stock cooler though :)