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First post, by ahendricks18

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Hey!
Today we went into town. (Well, one of them) and we picked up all this stuff from craigslist for $60! Now, although its not old, I thought you guys would like it. I got an old foxconn destroyer mobo in the box. But that's not all-I also got a 250Gb HDD, The CPU, and 4 gb of DDR2! I have a spare ATX case that I'm going to put it in (its from the 90s though) so it'll look old, but oh well. The CPU is an AM3, and although this board is AM2+, I read that some am3 processors work in am2+ boards. This one is a 3.2 ghz quad core, so that's nice! I have 4gb more ram at home so I'll have 8 total. I'm going to put in my Nvidia quadro fx 1700 in it. I will have to post some pics later when we get home, this thing is epic!

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

Reply 1 of 2, by ODwilly

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Just to note, if you have issues getting the am3 chip to work in your board use an am2/2+ chip and update the bios to the latest version. That thing should make a killer and deceptive gaming machine/web browser!

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 2 of 2, by ahendricks18

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Well, sorry for the extremely delayed response 😊
Anyway, here are some pics of my unsuspecting machine. Also, I did not have any problems with the included AM3 quad core cpu. Works like a charm!

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