[Leaplist] [Hardware] Socket-AM2+ mainboard for $45 - $20 rebate at NewEgg ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

I know a great number of you self-assemble desktops.  Right now DDR2 memory
is the cheapest and most common, making 4GiB easily achievable for a few bucks,
and AMD Socket-AM2+ boards are some of the cheapest.

NewEgg has an ECS Socket-AM2+ with the low-power AMD 740G (integrated
ATI Radeon 2100, basically the same as the 690G only a 55nm die-shrink) for
$45 - $20 rebate.  The Socket-AM2+ supports the new 45nm Athlon II X4, which
is a new quad core processor retailing at $99 (basically the Phenom without L3
cache, reducing the transistor count 2-3x), and excellent at multitaking as well
as well multi-threaded titles.

Just FYI for those interested ...  
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135231

I fully assume an onslaught of comments about AMD, ATI, ECS, etc... will follow.

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