Microcenter B&M: AMD Athlon II X2 250 and Biostar A780L3G mATX Motherboard, $58

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KDKPSJ

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Great deal, just the thing is it's been there for a while :) I picked up the exact combo back in November. Shame it didn't go down! (but good for me) lol
 
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Creig

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Why are all of their newer CPU's available for local pickup only? They can figure out how to ship motherboards but haven't been able to work out how to ship a CPU along with it?
 
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mizzou

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Creig said:
Why are all of their newer CPU's available for local pickup only? They can figure out how to ship motherboards but haven't been able to work out how to ship a CPU along with it?
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Probably they want the foot traffic in store. They want you going home with some cans of air and other misc stuff.
 
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kmmatney

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I've bought 8 or so cpu+MB combos from my local microcenter over the last few years, and they are all working great. The last free motherboard I bought even had decent overclocking controls and was able to unlock extra cores. I've been very happy with these combos.
 
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Brother Ali

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Running msi 785GM-P45 with x2 250 and I am happy. For $58 AR this is an amazing combo. While people are paying $300 (on sale) for sandy bridge/mobo im paying 1/6th that and honestly its plenty of performance for most people.

The cpu is pretty equivalent to the e5200 from intel.

FYI, the core unlocker is pretty much useless, everytime I unlocked my x2 phenom to x4 the board would die. Turns out the board can only handle 95W. Still excellent mobo for a budget board but I would pair it up with an althlon X4 instead of a x2 phenom hoping to unlock it.
 
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Vincent said:
You could substitute this better motherboard and end up paying about the same after a $20 rebate

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0342512
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That's a really good deal w/ an HDMI port. As most people will be using these as HTPC's and portable type systems anyway. I'm kind of rebated out though. After last weeks memory deals and HD's and what not, I'm in like 5 rebates deep now... I don't really track either, so any more would be too many.
 
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Zap

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Brother Ali said:
Running msi 785GM-P45...

FYI, the core unlocker is pretty much useless, everytime I unlocked my x2 phenom to x4 the board would die. Turns out the board can only handle 95W. Still excellent mobo for a budget board but I would pair it up with an althlon X4 instead of a x2 phenom hoping to unlock it.
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See this thread of the same mobo with a 95W CPU... CPU got overclocked and Prime95 was running... board died.
 
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I just got in on this great deal! I've been looking for a really cheap combo for a while. This will be my first time going to a microcenter. Thanks for posting!
 
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yottabit

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Just wanted to say I got the Athlon II 250 and biostar combo together today. I was concerned about the '760g' graphics chipset and how it compared to the 780g, notably I believe it lacks hardware h264 acceleration. I can definitely say it's fast enough to watch 1080p on youtube though, with about 40% cpu utilization.

I paired it with the $30 after MIR Patriot memory deal going on at Microcenter. To use this memory on AM3 you'll need to overvolt it.. I'm running a memtest on it right now at 1.7 V and I'll find out in the morning if it's stable. Not a bad first purchase from microcenter :)
 
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