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Info Working pull. Gigabyte AM2+/AM3 combo

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All those and no NVME slot?
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On a budget mATX board from 2009? Although... somewhere I have an even more budget next-gen version using the lesser 760G chipset instead of 785, Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3.

IIRC it was a dirt cheap build, mobo something like $50 after rebate, that I threw a $35 single core Sempron 140 in, then it unlocked the *hidden* 2nd CPU core. My notes show that I o'c that to 3.71 GHz (13.5 x 275 MHz) @ 1.536 V with a leftover aftermarket heatsink as the stock Sempron sinks were really tiny, but with stock sink meant only for a single core at stock speed, it was something like a 45W TDP CPU before u/l and o'c.

PS2 dual function kbd/mouse port, VGA and DVI integrated video outputs in addition to HDMI. Still had 1x PCI, a parallel printer port header, and IDE but they removed the floppy header at that point. At least it had USB3, and dual bios! I recall one time it was powered on, shows bios scrambled/whatever message and offered to restore from 2nd bios - saved the board, then it didn't happen again.

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IMO it was an era when board lifespans significantly increased due to phasing out electrolytic caps in some key locations, a trend that had trickled down to median and lower end boards.

By then I was no longer building, only occasionally repairing systems for others so my sample sizes got much smaller, but I'm having a hard time remembering the last motherboard I had, or came to me in a dead system, where the motherboard failed. Everything else since was retired for other reasons.

I've got a circa '09 Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 build in my workshop that has survived two PSU failures and a few upgrades (lol) but keeps on going. Best I can recall that was the last Newegg refurbished board I ever bought and possibly the last Newegg refurbished thing I ever bought.
 
The combo I posted has 4x1GB DDR2 800.

On mainboard durability: The only retail boards I've had fail since the bad caps era, I was responsible for.
 
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