FINALLY! Barcelona(s) + Asus L1N64......

[karbonkid]

It's a tough call. If you find nice B3 2360 with K10stats you can fine tune its vcore and bring it down to 85W or so @2.5GHz. 8 cores @2.5GHz for total of 180W is not so bad.
I found on ebay 8360SE for 50$ per piece and I'm really in a doubt.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
BTW, from my own experience those 8xxx CPU are a little bit better power consumption wise then 2xxx models.

Thanks for the info. The board itself is very power-hungry, I see ~26W in standby! And overall consumption under load, with _less_ hard drives is higher than similar system running in MSI K9ND!

I saw those CPUs too, searched as soon as I saw your post Fantastic price, really want to snap them up before they go, but can't justify spending £70 on this, when I don't have a job atm

If I were you, I'd go for it..