What's good cheap AMD to bench?
 

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.

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.

I'm talking old tech for hardware bointage.

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

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/...ndlePROMO.html

http://www.overclock.net/t/1181867/p...0-ddr2-2gb-677

http://www.overclock.net/t/1181388/f...m3-motherboard


http://www.overclock.net/t/1165208/a...8lt-m-am3-mobo

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?

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

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.

sempron 145 for Wprime 1x cores

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.

Thx guys. :thumbsup:

Now to go chip hunting.