Whats the best on this page four around $103
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2048Megabytes
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With the price limitation and what is available on that page I would also favor the Athlon 7750 Dual Core (2.7 gigahertz) processor for $117.
bomberboysk
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Yeah, the 7750 would be the best. The e5200 would be a little faster, but with 775 you lose the upgradeability of an am2/am2+ mobo.
WELL THE 7750 is really a Phenom Quad with two cores shut down.. clock for clock faster then an athlonx2
bomberboysk
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That include os/monitor/keyboard/mouse?
2048Megabytes
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The Athlon 7750 other two cores were shut down by the manufacturer because they are defective. Even if you could activate them you would most likely be activating defective cores.
CardboardSword
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In most cases yes, but I seem to recall a thread a while ago about a tri-core phenom II being unlocked where not all the tri-cores fourth cores were bad. While in general the cores are defective and therefore deactivated, some that are fine are deactivated to meet demand of the processor. Either way, you could try, and if you start getting stability issues, simply deactivate them again.
Oh, forgot to mention, its a great budget processor, you won't be disappointed with it for the price.
bomberboysk
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Actually you cannot even try to activate the cores on a 7750, as you can on the phenom II X3's. The phenom II's can be unlocked by turning on ACC, but this only works on a handful of motherboards with certain bios revisions, and it can also depend on whether or not your cpu has a good fourth core.