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Yellow&Nerdy? · Mar 17, 2010, 08:52 PM

6 cores, 3.0 GHz and 125W TDP? Sounds nice to me. If AMD manages to keep the price under 300 bucks, these processors could kick some Intel ass. Pair a Thuban with the upcoming Crosshair IV Formula (which looks sweeet from the previews I've seen) and a 58X0 and you've got a kick-ass rig

System Name:	Chepest thing EVER.
Processor:	AMD Athlon II X3 435 @ 3.26
Motherboard:	ASUS M3A76 (Cheapest I could find)
Cooling:	Stock! Crappy Fujitsu case can't fit anything.
Memory:	4 GB OCZ Gold DDR2 800 MHz
Video Card:	Powercolor Radeon HD 4730
Hard Disk:	Old crappy 160GB 5.4K RPM
Optical Drive:	Labelflash something.
Case:	Stock piece of s**t Fujitsu
Sound Card:	Integrated
PSU:	400 Watts of pure crap.
Software:	Good old XP.

Mar 17, 2010, 08:52 PM	#16
Yellow&Nerdy? Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denmark Posts: 307 (0.23/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 42 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	6 cores, 3.0 GHz and 125W TDP? Sounds nice to me. If AMD manages to keep the price under 300 bucks, these processors could kick some Intel ass. Pair a Thuban with the upcoming Crosshair IV Formula (which looks sweeet from the previews I've seen) and a 58X0 and you've got a kick-ass rig