Yes, I'm being serious. Ok, let's say $78 is the max you want to spend, and you have a new AGP video card you want to use. Fine, you can grab an AM2 with AGP (they exist, SIS) for about $33. Grab an AM2 Processor for $35, and a stick of 1G for $10. Bam. You just spent $78. And you ended up with a LE-1150, yeah, a "blah" board but you support your video card, and off you go.
Sure, you'd still be cooked to find out it was your power supply, which is a given, but on the other end, your DDR and other components (like the Asus board) would sell to make up about 1/2 the distance. :) I'm not talking about spending a ton of money.. but an LE-1150, a chip you can grab OEM for less then $35, would be easily the equal and superior to a Sempron whatever SocketA, the board wouldn't be, but you'd keep the AGP card so who cares, and you'd get better SATA, USB, etc. support. Just saying, if your budget was $78, the combo is out there ;) CW -----Original message----- From: j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:51:34 -0700 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Need AMD XP Sempron CPU > "Bite the bullet?" thanks Chris, you writing the check > on that new system for > me? AM2, Are you serious? Personally I'm waiting for > the Asus Rampage to ship & > I will build a Q6600 Intel system, screw AMD. > > Meanwhile the XP box is more than capable of playing > HL2 at decent frame rates > and has a brand new AGP video card (had to replace > that dead 9800) useless on a > PCI-E system. In other words perfect for the kids to > game on, hell it's been > enough for me. > > So no I did not want to spend $75 on a CPU only to > find it was another shit > Antec PSU that is now out of warranty. Certainly did > not want to then have to > spend another $50-60 on the seemingly no longer made > by any quality company ATX > 1.3 PSU. To dump an otherwise functional system over > $150 in repairs to keep it > running vs. $1000+ for new makes no sense to me esp. > with two kids and only one > other game pc in the house. > > Saving grace, I may be able to resell the XP-M that is > not the problem after > all. I know I could resell the Sempron & break even > despite Chris' surprise. ;) > > Chris Reeves wrote: > > $78?!?!?! Seriously a le-1640 at $25 less would > wipe the floors. Just bute the bullet go am2 and be > done. :) > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:46:55 > > To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com > > Subject: Re: [H] Need AMD XP Sempron CPU > > > > > > Yes, silly me! Picked up a new Sempron 3300+ for $75 > > which is essentially a XP > > 3200+ Barton. Unfortunately it ended up being my > (2nd) > > shit Antec TruePower 480W > > toasting caps on the 5V rail which is what Asus > A7N8X > > uses for vcore causing the > > problem. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
