Anyone still using an AM3 setup?

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I happened to have some parts laying around (FX4300, 8GBs 1600, Asus 760g board, 120GB SSD, and a GTX 750.

Threw it together. Loaded up Ubuntu MATE (looking at giving Solus a try). Machine works pretty damn well, plays War Thunder compfortably at 1080p Medium settings. Internet browsing an such is fine. Heaviest game I play is War Thunder (maybe RO2? But thats windows only). So far I'm impressed for older hardware but, my needs arent exactly demanding.
 
yeah that's still a decent basic use system and mild gaming.
putting a 212 evo or better on it and oc to 4.5ish would give it a good boost. my 4100 did that no prob.
 
Built summer of 2009, MSI AM3/Phenom X2-550, was my main PC for 3 years (unlocked to a X4-965), for past 4.5 years its been streaming movies/youtube and stuff to older 50" TV. Still going! :)
 
Have an 8150 as a HTPC machine. Will likely stay that way since it can play Rocket League at 60fps.
 
My 2k8 Windows server is running on an MSI 790GX-G65 with an Athlon X3 720 still to this day. I guess it has been running for about 6 or 7 years 24/7.

Sadly I couldn't unlock the 4th core with this chip but I knew it was a roll of the dice.

When my main rig flaked out because of an old worn out power supply, I snatched out one of my GTX 660's and ran it on the server so I could game some until I got the cash to get a new power supply about a month later.

I forgot how much I like gaming on Windows Server. I used to ALWAYS use a server OS for my main rig back in the NT/2000 days but found good stability with Win 7 and never went back to Server OS'es for my main rig.
 
Still using an Phenom II x4 955 BE system I built in 2009? I don't do much on the computer now so haven't needed to upgraded. I'm on it a few times a month for just a few minutes really.
 
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My 2k8 Windows server is running on an MSI 790GX-G65 with an Athlon X3 720 still to this day. I guess it has been running for about 6 or 7 years 24/7.
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I used to have an old Phenom x3 710. Loved that little thing. Later had an overclocked X2 555. Both were great CPU's.

Currently have my 880K an FX4300 both seem to be great CPU's for what I do. Currently thinkin bout selling the 880K/board/RAM an puttin the money back for a Ryzen rig later this year.

Honestly the heaviest games I play regularly are War Thunder an Red Orchestra 2. Probably end up with the FX4300, maybe a cheap 6300 and another 8GBs of RAM. Grab a cheap RX460 off ebay and run with it. Dual boot W7 an Linux.
 
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I am on my 8350 with 16Gb 2400 ram 256GbSSD 3Tb HDD and a XFX290. Still a beast but I am getting Ryzen later this year, just not sure if I will splurge on TR or just go the R7 route. Now sure what I will do with my 8350, media server probably and finally have a reason to use Linux.
 
id still be rocking my am3 but I pushed too hard and frank gave up the ghost, I burnt out the vrm, big scorch mark on the back of the mobo. :( have a 970 mobo but the cpu seems to be toast too, need a cpu now...
 
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id still be rocking my am3 but I pushed too hard and frank gave up the ghost, I burnt out the vrm, big scorch mark on the back of the mobo. :( have a 970 mobo but the cpu seems to be toast too, need a cpu now...
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sorry to hear. My MSI died, Thank God for miracles. Got an ASUS now which has far more tweaking settings for more stable OCs.
 
Private_Ops said:
I used to have an old Phenom x3 710. Loved that little thing. Later had an overclocked X2 555. Both were great CPU's.

Currently have my 880K an FX4300 both seem to be great CPU's for what I do. Currently thinkin bout selling the 880K/board/RAM an puttin the money back for a Ryzen rig later this year.

Honestly the heaviest games I play regularly are War Thunder an Red Orchestra 2. Probably end up with the FX4300, maybe a cheap 6300 and another 8GBs of RAM. Grab a cheap RX460 off ebay and run with it. Dual boot W7 an Linux.
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Yea, this box is also a dual boot to CentOS that I try to keep up to date and play with on occasion just so I am not one of those old crusty Windows only anti-neckbeards.
 
Got an old Phenom-II as my plex server. Not sure what to do with my 8350 - it's a good proc, but it's on one of the boards [H] listed as "Worst 5 boards of all time". And I had EVERY issue Dan had too.
 
Still have a Phenom II X4 980BE setup here with a GTX660, and frankly it's still quite a fine machine even if not chart-topping. However my other older system with tri-core Phenom II+DDR2 (single channel perhaps even) feels sluggish with today's bloated os and web browsers.

Never built a Bulldozer system. Already built a Ryzen system.
 
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This still is used here at work 24/7/365 (after 13+ years / still using the same rolling OS / never reinstalled):

dev6 shell-scripts # uname -a
Linux dev6 4.11.7-gentoo-20170627-1648-dev6 #1 SMP Tue Jun 27 16:59:28 EDT 2017 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

dev6 shell-scripts # lspci -v
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, NUMA node 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: fc900000-feafffff
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [f0] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, NUMA node 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at ffa0
Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE

00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at cc00
Kernel modules: i2c_amd8111

00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI
Flags: medium devsel, NUMA node 0
Kernel modules: i2c_amd756

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, NUMA node 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fc400000-fc8fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff500000-00000000ff5fffff
Capabilities: [a0] PCI-X bridge device
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface

00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [IO-APIC])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0
Memory at febff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, NUMA node 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: fc300000-fc3fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff400000-00000000ff4fffff
Capabilities: [a0] PCI-X bridge device
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration

00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [IO-APIC])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0
Memory at febfe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
Kernel modules: k8temp

00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 1
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 1

00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 1

00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 1
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
Kernel modules: k8temp

01:03.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 27, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at 8400
Memory at fc3ff800 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Memory at fc3fa000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Expansion ROM at fc3a0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sym53c8xx
Kernel modules: sym53c8xx

01:03.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 28, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at 8800
Memory at fc3ffc00 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Memory at fc3fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Expansion ROM at fc3c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sym53c8xx
Kernel modules: sym53c8xx

02:02.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 24, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at 9800 [disabled]
Memory at fc8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fc8e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fc600000 [disabled] [size=2M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [98] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [68] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Kernel driver in use: mptsas

02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Subsystem: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 25, NUMA node 0
Memory at fc8a0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fc890000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fc880000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Subsystem: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 26, NUMA node 0
Memory at fc8d0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fc8c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fc8b0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

03:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 USB OHCI (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 USB OHCI
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19, NUMA node 0
Memory at feafc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci

03:00.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 USB OHCI (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8111 USB OHCI
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19, NUMA node 0
Memory at feafd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci

03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATALink Controller
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at bc00
I/O ports at b400
I/O ports at b000
I/O ports at ac00
I/O ports at a800
Memory at feafe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at fe980000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sata_sil

03:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage XL PCI (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage XL
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11, NUMA node 0
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at b800
Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2

03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 S Server Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11, NUMA node 0
Memory at feafb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at a400
Memory at feaa0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
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It's connected to a dual drive LTO2 autochanger with 24 slots. With that said I am (soon) going to replace the autochanger with a single LTO7 drive and put that into a server with 70+ TB of space.
 
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typing on a socket am3 board I bought in 2011, with an fx 6300 I got at release.

Waiting for ddr4 and will be moving to ryzen and then this will replace the socket fm1 with an a8 3870k that has also been running nonstop since release with zero problems ever. Thinking about putting it in the car for road trips and for the times where my job means I am sitting in a parking lot for an hour or more sometimes.
I gotta find a use for all this ddr3 I stocked up on.

My dad's still on an am2+ board I built for him with a phenom 1 in it, works just fine for his netflix habit.
 
lopoetve said:
Got an old Phenom-II as my plex server. Not sure what to do with my 8350 - it's a good proc, but it's on one of the boards [H] listed as "Worst 5 boards of all time". And I had EVERY issue Dan had too.
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Socket Am3 mobos are about to get silly cheap I suspect.
 
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