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AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (939) retail @ TD for $49.99 Plus About $7 for shipping

It's nutty that the 939 FX-60 still sells for 275.00 to 400.00. Crazy. You could get a new motherboard and much faster CPU for 400.00
 
Something tells me these are left over from the EOL that AMD put down which pulled all the 939s from retailers. They've reprogged all the chips and now they're all X2 3800+. Pretty sure there's going to be a huge variation in terms of OCing these things. Good stuff though.
 
what does this mean "They've reprogged all the chips and now they're all X2 3800+."

so x2 4800+ and opty 165's are rebadged x2 3800+? find this very hard to believe
 
moot now, they appear to have sold out

I was debating whether or not to upgrade an old A64 3000+ but the need really wasn't there even for $50... if only I had checked earlier I could have grabbed one along with that $30 (AR) 2GB kit of 2-3-2 Patriot DDR deal as well. Would have been a very significant upgrade for less than $100 when all said and done.

Oh well.
 
i personally didn't bite, but buying my X2 4200+ for $79 the week they sold out of dual-cores on newegg was the best purchase i've ever made. The jump from my 3500+ was huge. Single threaded applications thrived with double the usable cache, and multi-threaded applications perform incredibly well. To whoever bit on this deal, bravo. It'll make that 939 last another year.

I have a separate system that is s939, 3500+ (I have 3 of these processors) and 1GB of PC3200 (w/x1650pro 512mb) and its incredible at anything light that you can throw at it. Most people do nothing but surf the net, check e-mail, download pictures, burn DVD's and play casual games. I think were getting to the point in which the average person doesn't need all of these powerful computers. Most people seem to be limited by the speed that they themselves operate a computer rather than how the computer operates with them. I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw a "budget" entry level system at fry's that consisted of a Phenom 9550, 8GB of PC5400, 640GB (320GBx2) of sata HDD's, Dual light scribe burners with built in wireless and HDMI out for only $599.

$599.

And then i look at this system i just picked up from goodwill for $8.
Celeron 666Mhz (I overclocked it to 715 or something similar immediately)
256MB of PC100
10GB HDD (My own drive)
Geforce TNT 32mb.
52X CD Burner
100Mb Ethernet Controller

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and my parents couldn't tell or care for a difference between that and the 3500+ system I built them.

Anyways, /end rant. I'm taking this over to cpu's later on. I think i have a good point.
 
Wow, those are hard to find. Nice one OP!

Of course a whole system build is so cheap these days, it just amazes me. There isn't much need to upgrade an old system unless it is to fix a problem and you don't have much cash.
 
the 1MB cache would be a nice upgrade, but I already upgraded to a Q6600 w/ 8GB RAM, so my old 3800 X2 is just doing light side duty these days.
 
Ugh, I wish I had gone for an X2 when they were selling out on Newegg. I'm still operating on my 3700+ San Diego...this proc has lasted me awhile, but it's just not keeping up anymore...
 
Ended up buying one to replace an Opty144 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra D. The Opty was a great OC'er even in a crappy Asrock board, but for the life of me I can't tweak it at all in the Lanparty. The issue has to be the complexity of the DFI BIOS, which just boggles my mind compared to how easy I find the C2D chips are to overclock. It will replace an NF3 S754 Venice 3400+ in my wife's PC, so I splurged on the 3800+ and now have an Opty144 without a socket for a home.
 
Originally posted by: killster1
what does this mean "They've reprogged all the chips and now they're all X2 3800+."

so x2 4800+ and opty 165's are rebadged x2 3800+? find this very hard to believe
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I guess you didn't get the memo that some Opterons were Toledo cores.
 

I picked up an Athlon X2 4400 (2.2 Ghz stock, 1 MB cache per core) for $66 shipped off of eBay last year in December.

It replaced an Opteron 148 (2.2 Ghz stock) that could overclock 25% to 2.75 Ghz, but maybe it's worth it to go dual core. Unfortunately my 4400 only overclocks to 2.42 Ghz. Was that a good deal?
 
Originally posted by: WT
Ended up buying one to replace an Opty144 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra D. The Opty was a great OC'er even in a crappy Asrock board, but for the life of me I can't tweak it at all in the Lanparty. The issue has to be the complexity of the DFI BIOS, which just boggles my mind compared to how easy I find the C2D chips are to overclock. It will replace an NF3 S754 Venice 3400+ in my wife's PC, so I splurged on the 3800+ and now have an Opty144 without a socket for a home.
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There's always the Anandtech cluster hardware donation thread in the Distributed Computing forum.
 
Originally posted by: WT
Ended up buying one to replace an Opty144 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra D. The Opty was a great OC'er even in a crappy Asrock board, but for the life of me I can't tweak it at all in the Lanparty. The issue has to be the complexity of the DFI BIOS, which just boggles my mind compared to how easy I find the C2D chips are to overclock. It will replace an NF3 S754 Venice 3400+ in my wife's PC, so I splurged on the 3800+ and now have an Opty144 without a socket for a home.
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Yeah, the DFI Lanparty bios is just crazy. I still have my DFI SLI Dr Expert board with 3800+ X2 doing HTPC duty. I had it overclocked to 2.6GHz at all stock voltages.
I'm not a gamer, and I don't do the SLI stuff. Overclocking to me is just something to play with. I just left 99% of the bios settings at the default. Very easy overclock.
 
Larry, thanks for the suggestion ! In fact, I was a bigtime DC'er back in the day, contributing 16+ PC years in 5+ calendar years until United Devices essentially closed their cancer genome DC research ... a sad day for me, indeed.

Geezer, I read that the DFI was also problematic when using an Opteron, so this X2 3800+ deal was worth a look to see if it was in fact my problem. Finding any DFI resource is quite a challenge since DFI-Street closed its site. If any DFI guys want to help me out, I'd be most obliged.
 
Originally posted by: WT
Larry, thanks for the suggestion ! In fact, I was a bigtime DC'er back in the day, contributing 16+ PC years in 5+ calendar years until United Devices essentially closed their cancer genome DC research ... a sad day for me, indeed.

Geezer, I read that the DFI was also problematic when using an Opteron, so this X2 3800+ deal was worth a look to see if it was in fact my problem. Finding any DFI resource is quite a challenge since DFI-Street closed its site. If any DFI guys want to help me out, I'd be most obliged.
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The DFI street was a wonderful resource. I did have a Opteron 165 X2 overclocked to 2.6GHz for awhile in the same DFI expert board. It was OK too, for me anyway. But yours, of course, was a single core, so maybe it was different for use in a DFI board.
I do remember having ram problems with 2 X 1GB sticks. DFI street said to use the orange slots, and that worked for me. It was also picky about power supplies.
 
Originally posted by: WT
Larry, thanks for the suggestion ! In fact, I was a bigtime DC'er back in the day, contributing 16+ PC years in 5+ calendar years until United Devices essentially closed their cancer genome DC research ... a sad day for me, indeed.

Geezer, I read that the DFI was also problematic when using an Opteron, so this X2 3800+ deal was worth a look to see if it was in fact my problem. Finding any DFI resource is quite a challenge since DFI-Street closed its site. If any DFI guys want to help me out, I'd be most obliged.
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I thought that they were still around, they just changed their name to DIYstreet.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: WT
Larry, thanks for the suggestion ! In fact, I was a bigtime DC'er back in the day, contributing 16+ PC years in 5+ calendar years until United Devices essentially closed their cancer genome DC research ... a sad day for me, indeed.

Geezer, I read that the DFI was also problematic when using an Opteron, so this X2 3800+ deal was worth a look to see if it was in fact my problem. Finding any DFI resource is quite a challenge since DFI-Street closed its site. If any DFI guys want to help me out, I'd be most obliged.
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I thought that they were still around, they just changed their name to DIYstreet.
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yeah, but it just isn't the same, however there are newer official forums that are just as helpful - http://csd.dficlub.org
 
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