what price range, and to help me understand, what was rong with the ones i posted, i thought you would want an asus, anything HERE will work, but dont get open box
The original Phenoms, not so much, but the Phenom II's provide fantastic bang for the buck and a better upgrade path than the i7 line as intel is discontinuing the LGA 1366. Its about on par with the highest end Q9XXX's, slightly better or worse in a given scenario. The lower end processors are quite good as well (For the price) The Tri-core 710 is quite popular.
The Phenom II processors AMD makes are great quality.
Won't going with a Socket AM3 motherboard be cheaper since the Phenom II Tri-Core 710 processor is about $50 cheaper than any Socket AM2+ Phenom II processor?