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.

Athlon 64 3500+ orleans with Ga-ma790x-ds4 oc to 2.60ghz (240 base) with every thing else stock except cool &quiet. PSU antec neopower 550w. 3gb ddr2 667. x1900xt some times will swap out for a 8800gtx if needed depending on the app.

Anything that performs worse than the 9500 will be considered, but the person needing it the most is going to get it.

I can imagine a situation where if a person had a low end dual core but a midrange GPU, they might benefit greatly from the upgrade, as opposed to someone with a high end dual core and a low end GPU. See where I'm goin?

So yeah, you're definitely being considered xelios.

I forgot to say that it takes me up to more than an hour to encode a 4gb fraps file with windows media encoder.

You deserve it more than I do since I have my 3500+ at 2.6ghz how ever I already have the board and cooler.

Athlon 3000+, but I am going to be buying a new MB/memory/graphics.

I purchased Fallout3, when it came out, installed it and found out just how (lame) out of date my CPU/MB/graphics card is.

I have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+

This is my Mobo

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145329

I see there are older ones than mine here, but no harm in posting hey.

Why would i like your CPU?

Your CPU > mine. Good enough reason to want it rite? And i actually do want a new one aswell.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] mendations

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Come on guys, there is no need to go witch-hunting for people who *may* be decieving people of their computer specs just to get a free part. Good will needs to reign here on both sides of the equation.

Just being thorough, thats all. I suppose if I have any more questions like that I'll do it in PMs.

So many entries!! lol

Hi,

My computer is as follows
- Athlon X2 4600
- Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3
- NVidia GeForce 9600GT
- 430W Thermaltake PSU
- 2GB DDR2 800

A better processor would be great because I do some video editing as well as gaming and the rendering takes forever.

I am not interested in the CPU (I have 2 more powerful systems) but want to point out that the Phenom 9500 was used in a low cost build of Tom's Hardware Marathon in March of 2008.So you can look at the benchmarks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,1794.html

One more day for entries!

I'd actually like to pull myself out of the competition. Seems people here need it much more than I do, and from talking to my brother, I might snag a P2 940 as an early Christmas gift. So good luck to you all.

Whatever happened to your undervolted Athlon X2 BE on the 690G board?

Good luck to those who need it more than I. If they got a compatible board while having a sempron they need it unlike those with those X2 cpus. I'll limp on my 3500+ (am2 35w) for a few more months till I get a job and buy a nice 45nm.

Thought so.

Congrats m8, let us know how its running once its in .

And nice one HibyPrime for being so generous.

o.O

Thanks a bunch! I provided you with the screens you requested, though I'll post them here as well;



1GB of DDR-200mhz, actually.

I believe his dad is going to buy him a new motherboard.

Just hope you know what to look for m8.

I would add "Take a pic of your PC" to the rules....

I would ask for a PC pic, but he's posted on these forums almost 600 times before this contest even started, so I would imagine he's not just here to grab a CPU and ditch the site.

Just get a good board, ram, and psu plus a good cooler.

No need to disassemble anything, those pics are fine, now if everyone would do the same as you we would have at least some proof.

Like people gaming on integrated,

I have a Radeon 9250, and a wireless PCI card. It's not much, but it's all I have to give away (there's also a full tower (30gb HD, 1ghz athlon, etc)) but anyone who's posting on this forum has a better computer than that, :s.