Just in time. My old K8 box is about on its last legs and I’ve already started pricing out options for its successor.
You must be happy with very little performance....
the neutered quad Black 555 and DDR3 memory is a pretty good performer...and cheap;...
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AMD K8 family is the eighth and the latest(??)(Not sure that is now true ) generation of AMD microprocessors. The first members of this family, server-class Opteron processors, were introduced on April 22, 2003
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And the early ones ran Hot!
The new stuff runs rather cool.