AMD Athlon X2 6400 Winsor 3.2 GHz... Free to good home.

[STMahlberg]

I was originally going to try to throw together a rig with this CPU; however, I'm not sure it is worth the cost to buy a AM2 motherboard for only 2 cores.

Perhaps someone out there already as a spare board that this will run on, so I figured that I would offer it to any of you that could put it to good use.

This CPU and fan have approximately 6 months of run time on them; they have been sitting in a box for about 2 years. The only reason I changed out the CPU's on an old rig was to go to a quad core 955.


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[trigggl]

So, not worth buying a Motherboard for?

[STMahlberg]

So, not worth buying a Motherboard for?

Well, I guess it's all a matter of opinion. I was looking for an AM2 board and I found a few (I forgot where) but the inexpensive ones only support the <95w CPU; the 6400 is a 125w processor.

I would have to go to a more expensive board but if I did that I would rather put a quad or hex core system together. Hard to justify, for me at a least, the cost of a system to run only a 2 core processor.

I figure if someone here already had an old board in their parts box that support the AM2 but didn't have the CPU for it, then perhaps they could use this.

[DrPop]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157210R
It's an open box special, but for $36 it should work! ;) If it can take a Phenom X6, it'll take this CPU as well.
Just an option for anyone that's interested...

PS - I used to have one of these CPUs in a rig I ended up giving to a friend for an AutoCAD workstation, and it's a surprisingly fast CPU. I don't know if it's because it runs so high frequency or what, but that was a very "snappy" feeling machine.

[Dandasarge]

I could use it to upgrade my 5200 if no one needs it. I would hate to stop an extra cruncher

[joker]

I got a 5600+ that could use an upgrade.


Wow, Dandasarge beat me to it by 1 minute!

[STMahlberg]

I could use it to upgrade my 5200 if no one needs it. I would hate to stop an extra cruncher

Looks like it's yours if you want it. :cool: Just PM me your address and I will get it out in the mail.

[joker]

A better upgrade then mine. More power to the team. :)