Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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Dropped my 4850e back last night, picked up 4450e X2 2.3G instead. Waiting for another MSI and DFI 790FX board now. Also dropped my 780G back and picked up the 740G instead.

Build cost:- £130

AMD Athlon X2 4450e 2.3G 45W - £40
Corsair 2x1GB 800 4-4-4-12 - £25
Gigabyte 740G - £35
Seasonic S12 330W - £30

First dime I spent on PCs since 15 months.. very happy with that

Nice that 740G is ~20€ ceaper here that the 780G and still sufficient for office usage. I wait for Asus Barebones like the PUNDIT with an 740G/780G chipset here.
As an alternative to Barebones I have build a machine with an Aerocool M40 Case ~50€ and 780G 75€ and S12 330W ~50€. It's ~50€ more expensive than the Pundith.
740G was not available at that time, will reduce costs to ~150€. Might be over all cheaper than the barebone. In the past nearly all of the barebones required a new psu during lifetime. Bad side that M40 Case has twice the sice of a barebone, so it's abit huge for the desktop.

I have a few benchmark results here with an BE2400 in the M3A in case you wanna compare. 4850e at 2GHZ/1V pulled max 1.3A here btw, posted a few results in the M3A thread.
The BE2400 and my 500BE require the same voltage than the 4850e for 3GHz, the 4850e howevere needs less vcore for 2.5GHz than the BE2400. I can not find specs for the 4xxx chips at the amd site, do you know the differences between the 4450e and the BE2400?

Extelleron noted that the Corsair HX 520 has no 18A limit on the 12V1-12V3. That might help on the MSI with only one 4pin connector.

Will you get an M2R or an M2RS?