Last amd hardware without botnet ?

If I was wealthy enough to make regular financial contributions like that, then sure. For now, I'll just stick with buying hardware that's already got open-source/libre software for it. see

alright i think im going for something sub 100w
probably a phenom 2
some AM3 boards can take 2000mhz memory this should give it a nice boost assuming most benchmarks back in the day was made on 1333mhz memory

Just FYI, I use a Phenom II x945 (quad core, 3 GHz), and it's a bottleneck sometimes. I can mostly, say, compile a new kernel while playing music (with mpg123), but I'll occasionally get pauses in the music. Can't play HD video at full size even if that's the only thing I'm doing.

odd im using a lower performing A-series cpu right now and it flies

Richland and Kabini.

Ax-6xxx series APUs and FX 'dozers.
now get out

FX-9xxx were basically factory-overclocked parts. the FX-8370E had a very reasonable 95W TDP while being barely ~20% slower.

So do 12C & 16C Threadrippers. It's a matter of how much do you push the clocks.

This is retarded. Piledriver will give you much better performance (also per Watt). You don't need to buy the high-end 125W FX parts, ffs.
I suggest an APU on the FM2 platform. You'll get a much more modern chipset with better peripheral interface choice, at the cost of topping out at 4 cores.

Nice up those compile jobs, fgt. I had silky-smooth music playback (and even video, with a sufficiently low complexity codec and bitrate) while compiling on an ancient Pentium III back in the day.

It's nice in winter tho.

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Richland and Kabini is 2013 and certainly possed
Trinity is late 2012 but probably has it as well, looks like they decided to go botnet with the fm2

So the only A series that is safe is Llano fm1