Giving away a Phenom x4 9500 *CONTEST OVER*

Inspired by: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -announced

I have a few rules for this:

1. You have to have an old CPU you're upgrading from, obviously.
2. Your motherboard has to support it.
3. If you do a bios update and it F***S up your computer, don't blame me lol.
4. Must be willing to pay postage fees - I live in Canada so it might be around $15 or so to US (I'll get an exact quote for the winner).
5. Post here with your computer specs (including motherboard make and model), and why you want the processor.

Please be honest with your computer specs, and I will choose the winner based on who I think needs it most. If there is more than one person who needs it the most, then I'll do a random drawing from a hat.

Also, I lost the box for the processor a long time ago and along with it I lost the HSF. However I recently upgraded to a PII x3 710, and I have the box and HSF that came with that, so I'll be shipping it in that box with the x3's unused HSF.

Edit: I suppose I should put an ending date too lol... I'll give it a week for entries, so wednesday november 11, 2009 at midnight is the deadline.

Woah, nice dude! =p

Nice, first annisman gives a gpu away, now you're giving a quad away. This community rocks haha.

Anyways, how old is old for the cpu?

My specs are as follows

Athlon X2 4200+
ASRock A780GXE Motherboard
4GB DDR2 Patriot RAM
Nvidia 7600GS
Rosewill 630w PSU.

I would love to have it because this was my first build, started in January. Building my own computer has always been one of my greatest desires. Unfortunately, I've never been able to swap out my parts for better things due to lack of funds. I'm still a jobless high school student, can't find any work. So my build had to be left right at that, which is essentially where I started. With college not too far off at this point, it doesnt look like I'll ever get a chance to finish this. I would be extremely grateful for just being able to enter the contest.

Yeah, I understand what you mean. But thanks for doing this though.

Athlon 3400+ 2.0 ghz (OC causes random restarts), Radeon x700, 1GB DDR466 RAM.

My dad'd be willing to buy another motherboard. His main concern right now is keeping any upgrades I ask for under $80, and at that rate I can only get a Sempron processor.

Im really pleased at this community. Helping another gamer in need. Respect to hibyprime and annisman! =D

939 ouch

Great idea. hopefully the person who wins is very happy!

I have more than one computer and one was recently scrapped. Plus I forgot to update my profile after a upgrade. (gpu for sli)

+1

If any one wants me to make cooling mods let me know. Chipsets, power vrm and other.

Hes giving it away so its up to him if he wants to check to see if anyone is tryin to get a freebie than could benefit someone else more than him...

Just thought id bump this so others get a chance to see it.

You'd need new RAM as well as Phenoms take DDR2 and you have DDR. I would just upgrade the entire system when you have money as you're basically wasting money in upgrading an old 939 system with something faster. You can't buy DDR RAM and socket 939 X2s for giveaway prices yet on eBay, so I'd just get an entirely new system. I'm in the same boat as I am also on Socket 939 with an X2 4200+ and 4 GB of DDR400. I'm just riding it out until I get finally done with school and get a paycheck.

Got a sempron LE1250 Am2 on an MSI board with Nforce 570-sli chipset.
2x512mb + Radeon X1650 with 2x500 gigs.

Just kidding that's just one of my 5 computers :S
The guetto linux server. Tho the 9500 would help as I run Xen to run different VM's + the sempron doesn't do virtualisation required if I want an vm of a windows server.

Best sent to anyone who has an am2 single core. I would think the AthlonX2's perform just fine next to the quad compared to a single core.

hehe, you're so nice...

Ooooh pick me!

Core 2 Duo...
Gigabyte G31...

Just joking Keep up the good work.

Just a few more hours, get your entries in if theres anyone else.

Contest closed, congratulations to Shadow187, he is the winner!

What AMD hardware?

I work for Intel now

lol... wont fit
The 9500 is for am2, this board is unfortunately 2 generations behind and considering it's a sis chipset, it was one of those CPU+Mobo combos (I have one tho sempron3000)

The best CPU that can go on your system is an Athlon64-3700 with 1mb l2 cash but those are rare and pointlessly expensive.
Your cpu is still part of the kings of single cores.

Unfortunately upgrade wise everything must change so milking the pc to then get a new one and have a great secondary is the best bet.

Yeah, we might get a 780G, or something along those lines. I was surprised that the phenom has a TDP of 95W; that means more boards will support it.

I agree in full. +1

Don't know how to really prove anything with pics, and I can't shut down at the moment to disassemble anything.

Card is readon x700, last pic is to show the short brown slot, which is only included with older mobo's.
Second card is an (unused) wireless adapter.

My dad and I have been trying to put together various builds for awhile, but they're all so pathetic...Sempron processors with integrated HD4200 graphics for gaming, etc...
He wants a new computer, not trash that's been polished.

Note to people reading:

If you have a part lying around that someone else could put to good use, but you'll likely never use your self: Do what Annisman and I did, and give it away. At worst, it'll cost you a little bit of your time and maybe some bus fare (or gas) to get to the post office.

Nearly all of us have had to deal with crap machines in the past, and even something as old as a Pentium D or an nVidia 6600GT could make someones life all that much easier

Sheeez...

I pity you...

I wish I could mail you something cool.

Like a Sempron...