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Given the current price of components, I think I will dust off a Phenom X3, CPU cooler, DDR2, GT 720, SSHD, 2TB hard drive, and DVD burner and build a new computer with it.

That should be twice as fast as our Bay Trail AiO.
 
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DDR3 and flash demand has been high, too.

Plus, CPUs will be bugged for quite a while.
 
I bought a new AM2+ motherboard and the Phenom X3/4GiB/SSHD PC feels better than I thought.

So back to hoping for a 22FDX FX to just swap the X6 next year.

The AM2+/AM3/AM3+ zone rules.
 
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I am happy that the AM2+ motherboard allowed me to reuse an IDE DVD burner from 2004.
 
Haha. I was just told the Phenom X3 machine feels "lightning fast" (compared to the Bay Trail AiO).

The X3 has 4GiB dual channel 1066MHz DDR2, SATA 1.5Gbps and a second gen Momentus XT SSHD (7200RPM).

The AiO has 8GiB single channel 1333MHz DDR3, SATA 3Gbps and a third gen Laptop SSHD (5400RPM).
 
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The AM2+ is my first Gigabyte motherboard. I had MSI, ASUS, and ASRock before (I think they all failed, but the last one was repaired).
 
Ryzen is amazing.
 

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I see only lower end AM4 motherboards that have at least one PCI slot (some also with poor placement).

And none of them which have more than one M.2 slot.

Very bad in those: none with more than one 3.0 slot, none supports DDR4-3600, none with USB 3.1 header.

No such X370 boards that have both USB-C and TPM header.
 
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I'm not liking these SATA ports on the edge of E-ATX motherboards. It means they would not fit in a Corsair Carbide 500R, for example.
 
So, motherboards should really have at least 2 M.2 slots.

And no TPM header on Fatal1ty X399, really?
 
And I would prefer a Mini-ITX board with 4 SO-DIMM slots rather than just 2 DIMMs.
 
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