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My almost 3GHZ Athlon 64 beast

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Reply 20 of 22, by Skyscraper

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I buy every Asus A8n32-Sli-Deluxe I see if I can get it for less than ~$60.
The same with socket 939 DFI boards.

Socket 939 prices seem to only change in one direction and Asus A8n32-Sli Deluxe and the DFI boards are well built and will with luck last for another 20 years or so.
The rest of the boards will fail alot sooner as they do not use solid caps in their power circuits.

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 21 of 22, by kithylin

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Skyscraper wrote:
I buy every Asus A8n32-Sli-Deluxe I see if I can get it for less than ~$60. The same with socket 939 DFI boards. […]
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I buy every Asus A8n32-Sli-Deluxe I see if I can get it for less than ~$60.
The same with socket 939 DFI boards.

Socket 939 prices seem to only change in one direction and Asus A8n32-Sli Deluxe and the DFI boards are well built and will with luck last for another 20 years or so.
The rest of the boards will fail alot sooner as they do not use solid caps in their power circuits.

That's one of the reasons I bought mine. I also got a nforce4 SLI board for socket 754 recently, kinda neato to have too.

Reply 22 of 22, by ahendricks18

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I saw a custom built athlon 64 at church the other day. It was donated, but I asked if I could take a look at it, didn't think that I needed it, but I thought it would be a nice light use PC. Was in real clean shape too.

Main: AMD FX 6300 six core 3.5ghz (OC 4ghz)
16gb DDR3, Nvidia Geforce GT740 4gb Gfx card, running Win7 Ultimate x64
Linux: AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1.5GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro FX1700 running Debian Jessie 8.4.0