Zoot
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Sometimes Amazon's Best Sellers show up very interesting stuff.
One of the things that's quite interesting at the minute is that the AMD Sempron 145 is #5 in the US. This is despite it being about as low end a CPU as you can get, not to mention it's very long in the tooth at this stage. Although it's very cheap, so cheap, it's a wonder AMD can sell them for that price given the production costs and actually make money.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...lectronics/229189/ref=zg_bs_nav_e_3_193870011
The reason it seems is that people are buying really cheap CPUs and motherboards for mining Cryptocurrency at the minute, it doesn't get any cheaper that that Sempron and a motherboard like a 990FX/970 board in order to load it up with GPUs like the 7990 for a mining rig. For a mining rig you don't really care about anything other than the GPUs.
The UK Amazon then has the FX-6300 as the best selling CPU at the moment.
One of the things that's quite interesting at the minute is that the AMD Sempron 145 is #5 in the US. This is despite it being about as low end a CPU as you can get, not to mention it's very long in the tooth at this stage. Although it's very cheap, so cheap, it's a wonder AMD can sell them for that price given the production costs and actually make money.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...lectronics/229189/ref=zg_bs_nav_e_3_193870011
The reason it seems is that people are buying really cheap CPUs and motherboards for mining Cryptocurrency at the minute, it doesn't get any cheaper that that Sempron and a motherboard like a 990FX/970 board in order to load it up with GPUs like the 7990 for a mining rig. For a mining rig you don't really care about anything other than the GPUs.
The UK Amazon then has the FX-6300 as the best selling CPU at the moment.
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