How often does AMD CPUs go on sale?

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I have been wanting a Athlon x4 860k, and I know Cpu prices doesn't really drop or increase like gpu(when the bit mining craze happened), what I don't know is if a 80 dollar will go on sale for like upcoming Summer Sales or even Cyber Monday or Other Holidays, what vendors are usually know for sales, Reason for asking this question is because I don't want to buy this cpu and end up feeling sad when it goes on sale or price drop which happened to me with every part of my pc.
 
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AMD doesn't really do sales... Microcenter has an ongoing $40 off motherboard with purchase of qualifying AMD CPU. Some retailers will drop their price by $5-$10 when they need to move some units. That's about it.

If you need a motherboard as well, I would get an FX-6300 from microcenter if you can. You can bundle it with a motherboard for free, and the lowest price on an FM2+ board would raise it to the same cost as the FX-6300.
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AMD doesn't really do sales... Microcenter has an ongoing $40 off motherboard with purchase of qualifying AMD CPU. Some retailers will drop their price by $5-$10 when they need to move some units. That's about it.

If you need a motherboard as well, I would get an FX-6300 from microcenter if you can. You can bundle it with a motherboard for free, and the lowest price on an FM2+ board would raise it to the same cost as the FX-6300.
 
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You do know that it isn't a good thing making multiple threads on the same topic in the same forum. It is the quickest way to get people to avoid your threads. An $80 cpu is not going to see any kind of a real price drop if any at all. The margin on it is paper thin as it is.
 
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The motherboards they bundle free or cheap are the ones they can't sell. I live within driving distance of four Microcenters in NYC. You need a good board with an FX cpu. Not the kind they give away.
 
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They're free because they're old, not bad. The FX line itself is old, so if you hunt for a bargain you get decent performing boards in that 0-20 dollar price range. The majority of the new high priced AM3+ boards are designed around the 8 core line, as there's no reason to get a high end board if you aren't using a high end CPU.
 
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As someone who as owned probably 20 AM3+ boards and probably a dozen FM2 and FM2+ I can say you are totally off base. A good board will have 6+2 phase power on the FM2+ side of the equation and a AM3+ board will have 8+2 phase power with a beefy northbridge and mosfet heatsink and be full ATX. The bundled boards on the AM3+ side are usually 4+1 phase boards that thermally throttle with even a four core. They usually aren'r even 990FX boards but an older chipset. And we are talking FM2+ anyway Kalishnakof.
 
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yes, I have a a78 chipset mobo so not the best and don't need over clocking but it lacks a bit behind fx 6300, i guess he was trying to change my mind about getting am3+ socket? lol

 
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Also running an a78, my FX-6200 is running at slightly below average 6300 OC speeds with a 212EVO cooler.

Only complaints I have about the GA-78LMT-USB3 is that the lack of clean power shows up on USB DACs when you turn up your amp significantly (Of course, if any intentional noise comes out of your pc while it's boosted that much it will blow out your eardrums). I'll certainly be getting a better board for my next build, but I'm going SLI for that, so it's not really an option to go budget.

The darn thing was $10 open box 2 years ago when my old AM3/+ board got fried by my old OEM PSU. I'd say it's a bargain.
 
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