New Socket A

Good morning, I'm in the process of building a budget PC for a good friend and I'd like to stick to Socket A as I have a fair amount of good bits here which I can interchange to keep the cost down - eBuyer are selling socket A boards but not the processors that I can see.

What's the best place to get new Socket A processors from these days and what's the highest spec?

Thanks - Blue

I think Socket A processors are long since discontinued.

There's a Sempron 3300 on ebay for

I havent seen anyone selling "new" socket A processors for quite some time. There are probably some about in the same way that you can buy new P233MMX's from specialist suppliers but be prepared to pay big bucks as they are made on very small production runs so with no economies of scale

On the other hand if you're prepared to spend a little you could get a tidy little system

775 board

Edited by deleted (Wed 13-Jun-07 10:17:36)

I think as you say Rich, a 775 mobo seems to be the way forward - I certainly look at your spec and give it some thought.

Thanks to all - Blue

That'd be the way i'd go with it plus everything is under warranty then too.

Good luck with it

Not worth going back to socket A, give it a few more months and the boards will be difficult to get, so if the board you buy have a fault, you will be stuck.


I know it is annoying that the goal posts are moved so often, but that is progression, well that is what they tell us.

You can get some pretty cheap AMD AM2 boards around and Semprons to go on them, it depends how powerful you want the moachine and what you want from it.

You could go for a 939 board, I think they still uses DDR1 memory.


If you really want to stay with socket A, then you could try Ebay, not that I recommend it mind you.

But it is Intel, poor lad, fancy trying to make him go for an Intel

I've used RL Supplies quite a bit and no problems

try here

Have used Asrock boards with no problems - posting this using one with XP2200.

Hes not after the board hes after the CPU

Whatever, ffs it was an example nothing more nothing less to show what you could do with little money as for 754/939 whats the point in suggesting that old stuff that wont be around much longer either when the new stuff is the same price and the cost of DDR2 RAM in nothing anyway

Edited by deleted (Thu 14-Jun-07 11:12:14)