AMD A4-3300 APU with AMD Radeon 6410 HD Graphics 2.5GHz Socket FM1 65W Dual-Core Processor $12.99 Shipped (prime) new OEM

[funboy6942]

ENJOY!! Looking to build a retro or emulator rig, need something on the cheap? Or have a mobo laying around, like me, wanting to put together a XP rig for old classic gaming, I happen to have like 3 motherboards, and a ton of ram just laying around, with a few pcie old graphics cards, but I didnt have a FM1 cpu, so this was a steal imo, and had to pass it on!

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[VirtualLarry]

I got a whole bunch of these, a few years ago off of ebay, someone on these forums let me know about them, they were around $9 on ebay.

My advice is to look for (new? good luck), FM1 quad-cores. The iGPU portion isn't any better than the dual-cores, for the most part, but the extra cores (these days) will come in handy. A dual-core FM1 APU is pretty slow for modern PCs.

Then again, that's a reasonable price for "new", from a "legit retail outlet".

Maybe I should mention, Newegg currently has BNIB Retail-boxed Skylake Celeron G3900 CPUs for $44.99 + $0.99 shipping.

And Monoprice had some H110 BTC+ ATX mobos for $20 ea. Makes a great little combo deal, just add some DDR4.

Getting back to OP, I've gotten (supposedly new?) FM1 mobos from Ascendtech on ebay, they may be cleaned out by now, but they had them for $30 or less.

It was a fairly decent deal, FM1 mobo $30-35, dual-core APU $10, heatsink $8, just add some DDR3 (2x2GB DDR3-1600 was like $20 at the time). Fairly inexpensive, and some boards offer some (mild, bus-clock-based) overclocking. Just beware of AHCI port bus-clock OCs, they often couldn't take more than 106Mhz base-clock speed before the SSDs would crap out on you.

The good thing about FM1 (may depend on board), is that they are fully-supported under Windows 10, at least my "Win8.1-certified" boards were.

Edit: I just checked ebay, "amazonriver_az" has some Gigabyte NIB FM1 A55M mATX mobos for $55 or so, with slightly qty. discount. Not as good a deal as I got, and those boards don't have HDMI output directly, though one could probably use an "ATI HDMI DVI adapter" to get audio out of the DVI-D port and convert it to HDMI.

 

[Torn Mind]

Mobos usually have a hard price floor of 40-60 bucks, sometimes more due to scarcity and being "higher-end". Not worth it unless you don't want a prebuilt for $70 shipped or craigslisting/Facebook marketplacing complete desktops

 

[SimMike2]

If you have a compatible motherboard these make good DVR computers. Just keep in mind there are no more updates for the video card part of this CPU, so if you add a newer AMD video card, you can get some serious problems that will crash your system. I recommend using a Nvidia card if you want better graphics.