JCarsonkit :
I need recommendation for my old but still good Opteron 1354.
I'm hope that this response is not too late. I have a similar processor, so i speak from experience.
ASrock has released last year in the fall a motherboard for older processors like ours, named GC-GS FX, which can support am2/am2+/am3/am3+ processors. I have bought one to replace my older asrock a780lm-s, but i have found the
new one to be similar in every aspect to the old one (chipset, graphics,ecc and performance), there are small differences in the layout, the new one has 6 sata and support ddr2 and ddr3 separatelly. I highly recommend it because you can buy a newer opteron and it will fit too, i have a 3380 which works as well. Beside this is brand new, something happens you can replace it, if you buy a second-hand one can be problematic, not all of them have in bios the code for opteron processors.