What is the best AM2/AM2+ Processor?

[Joey_MM]

I have a couple of old Asus motherboards and wanted to give them the best Processor for socket AM2/AM2+ and was wondering if anyone could help a fella out? 

[Boomwebsearch]

Just now, Joey_MM said:

I have a couple of old Asus motherboards and wanted to give them the best Processor for socket AM2/AM2+ and was wondering if anyone could help a fella out? 

 

I believe that the fastest CPU for that motherboard socket would be the AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition, although you may have a hard time finding one at a reasonable price since they're out of production.

[Nena Trinity]

what board? it has a supported list on the website.

[Mateyyy]

A tri-core Phenom II 8750? 4 and 6-core Phenoms were on AM3 I think, though to be fair I'm not very familiar with chips from that era, or at least my memory hasn't quite kept up lol

[Joey_MM]

4 minutes ago, Nena Trinity said:

what board? it has a supported list on the website.

I’m currently at work so I can’t check the boards, but I’ll definitely check their website out when I get back.

[Joey_MM]

9 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

I believe that the fastest CPU for that motherboard socket would be the AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition, although you may have a hard time finding one at a reasonable price since they're out of production.

Yeah I’ll probably have to search up and down eBay or CEX for one of those, thanks for the info!

[Joey_MM]

8 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

A tri-core Phenom II 8750? 4 and 6-core Phenoms were on AM3 I think. Though I'm not very familiar with chips from that era, or at least my memory hasn't quite kept up lol

I found a Phenom 8650 that’s installed in a full system for £50, Do ya think that’s probably worth it?

[aisle9]

Here's one useful hint: do not ever buy the most powerful anything on a dead platform. Case in point: Core 2 Quads. The Q9650 still goes for $50-60 for some ridiculous reason. The only difference between that and the Q9550 is 170MHz and $25--the 9550 goes for $25-30. If you step down a couple more rungs to the Q9400, you get prices around $15, but you also start to lose cache and clock speed in a hurry.

 

That said, if it were me, I'd be looking into the Phenom II x4 line. The 940's a pretty cheap, very safe bet by AM2+ standards.

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Here's one useful hint: do not ever buy the most powerful anything on a dead platform. Case in point: Core 2 Quads. The Q9650 still goes for $50-60 for some ridiculous reason. The only difference between that and the Q9550 is 170MHz and $25--the 9550 goes for $25-30. If you step down a couple more rungs to the Q9400, you get prices around $15, but you also start to lose cache and clock speed in a hurry.

 

That said, if it were me, I'd be looking into the Phenom II x4 line. The 940's a pretty cheap, very safe bet by AM2+ standards.

Or even athlon II's. Those thing can be found in the single digits for a athlon II x4.

[Joey_MM]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Here's one useful hint: do not ever buy the most powerful anything on a dead platform. Case in point: Core 2 Quads. The Q9650 still goes for $50-60 for some ridiculous reason. The only difference between that and the Q9550 is 170MHz and $25--the 9550 goes for $25-30. If you step down a couple more rungs to the Q9400, you get prices around $15, but you also start to lose cache and clock speed in a hurry.

 

That said, if it were me, I'd be looking into the Phenom II x4 line. The 940's a pretty cheap, very safe bet by AM2+ standards.

Found a couple of Phenom II x4 940 on eBay ranging from £30 - £40, so that sounds pretty good.

[Guest]

Phenom II x6 1100T or 1090T would be the best processor for AM2+ platform including the AM3 platform, the hexa core just as fast as FX 8 cores multi Threading and faster single core performance.