/me gloats in her own small way.
around two years ago I built my system anew - I got a gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 motherboard and a zosma black edition unlocked to thuban x6, oced to 3.5GHz and running ddr3 at 1600 9-9-9-24. The cpu section of this shows exactly what I researched through at the time (by looking at the x6 1100t) for the $125 I spent on the cpu new retail I got one hell of a performer, especially in FP ops.
I wanted (and needed) the most raw processing power I could get for the money on a very low budget build, and to this day it still holds it's own and then some, especially considering it's price. It even bests the piledriver '8 core' (which I consider 4 fullcore plus 4 halfcore) in some tests at stock speeds. My choice of motherboard also appears to have been just as good seeing as it is tri SLI approved and tri crossfire approved, and does it in x16 x8 x8 mode... I can extend the gaming life of this box with just dropping in some new video cards.