Can't find Retail AMD 939 4400 x2 for upgrade. Get OEM?

Thanks much for your reply!

There's one/Retail version available right now on the most famous auction site (w 'Buy it now') for the price I mentioned ($280 w ship). That way I also get phone support and warranty for 3 years. (I think it's BIOS 1017)

While a site we all know and love has the OEM version for 180 w/o the HSF which can be had for 30-50 bucks; total 230.
(And that HSF will probably be better.)

I don't know if naming Retailers or auction sites is allowed here- thus the vaguer references.

oem fx-60's have a 3 yr warranty -so whats the issue? $300 at tiger


put an am2 mobo and use the same brand chip set - the hard drive most likely will fire right up to the windows screen

unistall all devices and delete the drivers - fire up the system with the old hard drive and load new drivers

if it does not fire up - reinstall windows

There are still 939 chips around. They are mostly Opteron but the 1xx series is really cheap right now and Opteron OCs much better than X2. Newegg has all of the Opterons. The 180 is less than $300 at 2.4GHz. It will run close to 3GHz.

thats what happens to me all the time

if you want a good cheap cooler try this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835185125

oh nevermind they use to be 19.99 i got mine for 39.99 for the first one
and 29.99 for the secound.

60$ bucks 8O

There's got to be Millions of Single Core 939's out there and yet AMD won't even help us out with continuation of them.

You would think, especially now that Intel has the faster chipS, AMD would at least help us Stay AMD.
If I wanted to spend more now I wouldn't even buy a 939, but a e6600 or e6700 system.

I think dealers might be making more now off these than they were when new. It's a real seller's maket because of all the 939's out there.

thats what happens to me all the time

I realize now what happened.
Tigerdirect ran out this morning of 4400 OEM's... hours later Newegg Raises their price $10.

Ahh capitalism

So.......
Newegg raised it another $10 today to 199. for OEM

The guy who was selling 2 NIB retail 4400s for $268 sold them both...
BUT.. he had a third one, open box but with Heat sink untouched, that he just tested a MB with and it was the 89W version for 269... as opposed to to the other 2 which were 110W.

So screw newegg- they made my decision ..I bought the ebay sellers Retail open box 89W version.

I think this works better for my [New] 430W Thermaltake power supply and because this processor is the lower watt version, the Stock Heatsink will probably be just fine, where on the 110W I probably would have replaced it.

Also be happy for the support on my first self-installed CPU upgrade and of course the 3 year AMD Warranty.

I'll keep you posted.
Can't wait to put in OCZ 2GB (2-3-2-5) and the 4400 Dual... should make a significant difference.
What with Norton Internet security Gobbling memory and always running- I'm Multitasking as soon as I open just one IE window!

thx

Good Deal on MB and fx-60 above

Some past recent prices on ebay.

AMD 4800 x2 BNIB- 345+19 ship= $364
AMD 4600 x2 BNIB- 255+15 ==== 270.

and current on Retail versions with 4800s all easily over $300 and no 4400's or 4600's available in boxed format:

http://search.ebay.com/search/sear [...] %29+retail

In fact, 4800s are selling as well or FX-60s

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