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Seen quite a few 2600ks on ebay for under 40 bucks and a couple i7 2700ks for 70 ish the other day. Although a hundred bucks gets a ryzon r3 that will hang or beat with both those chips as well as have the upgrade path down the line.

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+1 my old a64 asus a8n 32 sli deluxe mobo in the basement runs without a video card 24/7 as a file sharing/ torrent box. i access remotely with radmin. all i had to do was set the bios to not hault on errors

yes, more than enough.the regular hd gpu on the pentium's and the hd 2000 gpu is just a few features. otherwise they are identical in every regard. the only features that interest me are audio over hdmi, and 264 acceleration. the standard hd gpu does that.

would be surprised if you got a overclocked sandy down that far on air cooling. they seem to run pretty warm.

the apu was crapping out just shy of 4 gig. if you were using one with a discrete gpu and liquid nitrogen 5gig might be attainable.

the thuban prices have gone up because they are out of production. i believe this is the last month distributors can order them from amd. last reports (pre bulldozer launch) was that supply at best would last less than two months. demand has gone up so that's shorter now. amd will sell tons of...

the sb-e quad is cheaper than the 2600's now, the mobo is expected to only add $20-$30 over the current z68 motherboards. that price competitve with the 990x chipset on the amd bulldozer boards.

current i 7's are 6 core's and the sb-e's are 8 cores with 2 disabled to pit in the 130w tdp limit of current desktop boards. you can buy 8 core xeon's if you really want. were not seeing 8 cores on desktops because there is very little need for it. amds design can be reifined but cannot be...

i would say so, current numbers for the slow 2p 8c opterons are within striking distance of a current i7 hex core, the sb-e hex should close that gap and save you a few bucks down the road on your power bill. the upgrade path on the g34 allows you room to grow at least to more cores.

bulldozer has been tested on windows 8 and its not much better.

for a htpc you dont need nearly that much. a pentium g620, a cheap itx mobo, 4 gigs of ram, a ssd and a larger laptop drive all runs on less than a 100w power supply. the sandy bridge hd is like the hd 2000 except it doesnt have quick sink, 3d acceleration or a few other little things. it does...

im still rocking my 939 x2 4200+ and still have a 3500+ on an asus sli mobo in the basment complete with the water cooling still attached.

windows 8 isnt doing much for bulldozer either. toms had a preview on it.