Does anyone still carry Socket 754?

[izanbardprince]

I checked Newegg and Tiger Direct, and the processors they have for Socket 754 are all slower than the one I already have.

I have a Sempron 3100+, and as far as a budget CPU that would probably go for $20 now, it's really kicked some ***, but I believe that AMD went as far as making a Socket 754 Athlon 64 X2 3800+, I've been unable to find one though, I was thinking that and a Geforce 8800 would suit my needs pretty well, and at the same time, wouldn't force me to abandon all the other hardware I had on this board.

[igknighted]

Athlon64 3500+ was the fastest I have seen. I ran a socket 754 Athlon 3400+ for a long time, it was a great chip. But no, they did not make dual core chips for that socket. Your best bet is to upgrade to AM2, for $300 I got a board, cpu, ram (needed 240 pin) and a graphics card (needed a pci-e one), so I think its a very economical upgrade. I really don't think you will get anything that is enough better than your current chip to be worth it on that mobo.

[izanbardprince]

Well, just going from a Sempron to an Athlon doubles my L2 cache and gives me HyperTransport, plus whatever extra Mhz I get from the chip upgrade itself, but you're probably right, I just hate throwing out more stuff than I can justify. :P

[a12ctic]

Just stick with the sempron until your ready to refresh your whole rig. Id wait a year for quad cores to become economical tbh.

[jgrabham]

Look at my sig.

That pc didnt cost $250

with an am2

[w4ett]

Cheap socket 754's:

http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=socket+754&group1=2&sci=3&c=Microprocessors