On Jan 31, 2008 3:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 31, 2008 2:56 PM, John Massengale <<a href="mailto:johnrobertmassengale@gmail.com">johnrobertmassengale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Funny, I am in the same boat, socket 754 motherboard, sempron 3100<br>
><br>> i have found athlon 64 3200+ on eBay for $30 to upgrade to, but any faster<br>> than that, and the price goes up exponentially, what gives? I would think it<br>> would be easy to find inexpensive cpus for this platform.<br>
><br><br></div>My guess is that there are not that many out there, and retailers have<br>long ago ran out of stock. I am sure I can find a much nicer CPU from<br>a gen or two ago cheaper, but that won't fit the mobo. Maybe I should<br>
be looking at the 3200 route or just give up, and realize this is the<br>best performance (or near best) performance I will get out of my mobo.<br></blockquote></div><br>Fry's regularly advertises motherboard/CPU combo deals. I recently picked up a ECS AM2 socket motherboard with built-in nVidia graphics and an AMD BE-2350 Althlon X2 CPU for about $80.<br>
<br>I'd pursue a deal like that rather than invest any additional money in a socket 754 system.<br><br><br>Tom