Best CPU By Category - AMD

Sort of like the Oscars... curious what people would choose for:

Best Bang For Buck:

Best Gaming CPU:

Best Business CPU:

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it:

Best Bang For Buck: 1075t or 955BE (6 vs. 4)

Best Gaming CPU: 965 BE or 1090t (4 vs. 6)

Best Business CPU: 555 BE or Athlon II 620 (2 vs. 4)

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it: Dell

Best Bang For Buck: 1055t (6 cores at $200 is hard to beat)

Best Gaming CPU: 555 BE (Most games do not utilize all cores yet at $100 this is a great cpu for the budget) and 970 BE is best price point without overclocking.

Best Business CPU: Athlon II 620

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it: Dell, HP, or Acer

Best Bang For Buck: 1055t (chip only) + Cooler Master 212+ for OC it

Best Gaming CPU: 1055t (chip only) + Cooler Master 212+ for OC it

Best Business CPU: Athlon II 620

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it: Dell (good price), HP (look nice)

Best Bang For Buck: Sempron 140 when unlocked to dual core and overclocked to 4ghz

Best Gaming CPU: Phenom II X4 OCd

Best Business CPU: client side - Athlon II X4, server - Magny-Cours (Opteron 6000's)

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it: used dual cores, socket 939/AM2/AM3 (i hand down my old cpus)

Best Bang For Buck: 140/145 Sempron - Can't beat the price for the speed and OCability - Even better if it unlocks.

Best Gaming CPU: X3 720/740BE Heka - These chips run cooler than most multi-core chips while gaming / under a heavy load and the price is right, esp for an unlocked chip.

Only con is availability since the 720 is apparently gone from most if not all vendors. One additional thought is nowadays you'd need to get a cooler for either since they are being sold as OEM chips (No cooler included).
Most of us don't bother with the stock unit if it was there anyway, so it's not a real con.

Best Business CPU: X2 Regor - Cheap, runs cool and has enough power to do about anything in an office plus the extra core would help in some office situations such as running an end of the day report. Would have went for the 140 Sempy in this one but there's no guarantee of a second working core so this is it.

Best CPU for that family member or friend that needs a computer but isn't smart enough to use it: Anything spare you have lying around....