My New Athlon II

[ocgw]

I bought a AMD Athlon II Regor core X2 245 2.9Ghz from newegg

The first 1 was DOA and I threw the box away so I had to RMA it thru AMD, just 5 minutes on the phone, and about a week later I have the new cpu

I installed this lil' $66USD cpu in my 2nd PC to replace a aging 140w TDP AMD 6000+

The oem hsf is so dinky it looks like a stock hsf for a AMD 2000+

I installed the 245 w/ the 6000+ 2-pipe hsf

@ stock clock w/ +.1v (didn't bother to change v because I wanted to see what kinda' OC I could get right away) the 245 idled @ 24c*

I cranked up the system bus from 200 to 235, the cpu is running @ about 3.4Ghz, my Crucial Balistix Tracer DDR2 800 is running @ 940 (raised the cas from 5 to 6) and it is idling @ 27c*

hasn't crashed yet

gonna' run some stability tests before I really start pushing it

seems like a nice cpu for the money so far, I think it has potentual

edit: bumped up the system bus to 245, clocked @ 3.550Ghz, DDR2 800 @ DDR2 980

edit: bumped up the system bus to 250, clocked @ 3.625Ghz, DDR2 800 @ DDR2 1000 (cpu temp 26c* @ idle)
ocgw

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=788124

edit: up to 3.7Ghz now lol

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=788124

edit: 3769Ghz

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=788124

edit: system bus 262, 3.8Ghz, mem @ 1024 no CTD's or BSOD's yet, gonna' just run it @ the clock for a day or 2 before venturing further

3.850Ghz

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=788124

3.875Ghz

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=788275

Finally BSOD @ 3.9Ghz after Windows finished loading, this m-atx mobo has limited cpuv options, probably could get 4Ghz on a oc mobo

gonna' roll back to 3.8 Ghz

ocgw

peace

[budz]

Nice OC....I've been checking out some low price Quad AMD cpu's. I haven't had a AMD cpu in awhile now. Is the AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core any good? It's only $100.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103706

How would it compare to a low end Intel Q8200 cpu? I'm thinking about that AMD Quad since it's cheap. I could build my cousin a new pc with it. Or sell her my Intel E8400 system and buy that AMD Quad.

[ocgw]

Nice OC....I've been checking out some low price Quad AMD cpu's. I haven't had a AMD cpu in awhile now. Is the AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core any good? It's only $100.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103706

How would it compare to a low end Intel Q8200 cpu? I'm thinking about that AMD Quad since it's cheap. I could build my cousin a new pc with it. Or sell her my Intel E8400 system and buy that AMD Quad.

Sup budz?

I read a Tom's Hardware article that showed that expensive, super fast "on die" L3 cache does very little to help encoding speed, which I think is the only reason to buy a quad other than super heavy multitasking

You can see here that the E8600 whips the Propus 620 when the app isn't heavily threaded, and the Propus 620 whips E8600 when the app is heavily threaded

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-ii-propus,2414-11.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-ii-propus,2414-9.html

The Propus encodes not too shabily compared to the much more expensive Phenom II X4 965 and the Intel Q8200, it "woops ass" in encoding w/ multi threaded apps for the $

Notice in the Main Concept 1.6.1 benchmark (fully threaded) the Propus is close right behind the Q9550 and AMD 965 lol

Actually I had planned to put the Propus 620 in my 2nd PC, but I am getting a nice OC out of the Regor 245 so I will put those plans "on hold" for a while

imho

ocgw

peace

[lacywest]

interesting

[MJA]

Nice OC....I've been checking out some low price Quad AMD cpu's. I haven't had a AMD cpu in awhile now. Is the AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core any good? It's only $100.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103706

How would it compare to a low end Intel Q8200 cpu? I'm thinking about that AMD Quad since it's cheap. I could build my cousin a new pc with it. Or sell her my Intel E8400 system and buy that AMD Quad.

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

[budz]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

Hey! ocgw: Thanks for those links! It's very interesting how that low end AMD quad cpu comes very close to Q9550 & AMD 965 when using Main Concept.

[ocgw]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

Hey! ocgw: Thanks for those links! It's very interesting how that low end AMD quad cpu comes very close to Q9550 & AMD 965 when using Main Concept.

Your most welcome budz lol

I am reencoding the Movie "Obsessed" (BD remuxed to main movie and one 5.1 standard audio track and no subtitles) to BD-25 w/ BD Rebiulder

W/ both cores pegged @ 100% utilization the temps are 44-45c*

Hot damn!, that 45nm process is the chiznit!

Too bad it has a locked multiplier, no telling what it could do if it were unlocked

ocgw

peace

[MJA]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

They didn't release the names of the winners of the October 24/25

[deadrats]

@ocgw

i picked up a X2 550 to replace my phenom 9500 and what a f'ing difference!!! with my phenom 9500, at stock speeds, with a huge thermaltake copper heat sink, 1 80mm case fan, 1 120mm case fan (dedicated to just cooling my hdd's), 4 hdd coolers (for the 3 500 gig and 1 640 gig hdd that run really hot) and a 9600 gso, the heat output was ridiculous, the side of my case would be hot to the touch, to the point where i really believe if you left your hand on it for a minute or so you would end up with a burn. as a matter of fact it was so hot that the thermal grease turned into a sort of glue and when i went to pull the cooler off i found that it was stuck, and in the process or trying to get it off i actually ended up pulling the phenom up with it (stuck to the bottom).

at first i was worried that i had damaged the motherboard, but luckily i hadn't. at any rate, like you, i was completely underwhelmed by the stock, small all aluminum cooler that cam with the 550, but i figured it would use it for a while until i had a chance to buy a better cooler (or yang the phenom off my thermaltake, would you believe they're still stuck together?). as it turns out i quickly discovered that this cpu runs extremely cool, even with that cheap stock heatsink my pc runs cool, even after 24 hours of non-stop running, including tons of downloading and encoding, the case is still cool to the touch and i have actually disconnected the 80mm case fan because it was making too much noise and it was annoying me.

as for overclocking, this thing, thanks to the unlocked multiplier, easily hits 3.6ghz (from the stock 3.1ghz) with no voltage tweaks, stock cooling and no heat increase and stable as can be. i would be surprised if this couldn't be clocked to 4.2ghz just by upping the multiplier with just a bit of extra voltage and some good air cooling.

next time do yourself a favor and pick up a BE amd cpu if you're planning on overclocking, for $90 i personally consider the X2 550 the best buy under $100, better than the 620 and the new tri-cores, and needless to say it's way way faster than the 9500 it replaced.

[ocgw]

@ocgw

i picked up a X2 550 to replace my phenom 9500 and what a f'ing difference!!! with my phenom 9500, at stock speeds, with a huge thermaltake copper heat sink, 1 80mm case fan, 1 120mm case fan (dedicated to just cooling my hdd's), 4 hdd coolers (for the 3 500 gig and 1 640 gig hdd that run really hot) and a 9600 gso, the heat output was ridiculous, the side of my case would be hot to the touch, to the point where i really believe if you left your hand on it for a minute or so you would end up with a burn. as a matter of fact it was so hot that the thermal grease turned into a sort of glue and when i went to pull the cooler off i found that it was stuck, and in the process or trying to get it off i actually ended up pulling the phenom up with it (stuck to the bottom).

at first i was worried that i had damaged the motherboard, but luckily i hadn't. at any rate, like you, i was completely underwhelmed by the stock, small all aluminum cooler that cam with the 550, but i figured it would use it for a while until i had a chance to buy a better cooler (or yang the phenom off my thermaltake, would you believe they're still stuck together?). as it turns out i quickly discovered that this cpu runs extremely cool, even with that cheap stock heatsink my pc runs cool, even after 24 hours of non-stop running, including tons of downloading and encoding, the case is still cool to the touch and i have actually disconnected the 80mm case fan because it was making too much noise and it was annoying me.

as for overclocking, this thing, thanks to the unlocked multiplier, easily hits 3.6ghz (from the stock 3.1ghz) with no voltage tweaks, stock cooling and no heat increase and stable as can be. i would be surprised if this couldn't be clocked to 4.2ghz just by upping the multiplier with just a bit of extra voltage and some good air cooling.

next time do yourself a favor and pick up a BE amd cpu if you're planning on overclocking, for $90 i personally consider the X2 550 the best buy under $100, better than the 620 and the new tri-cores, and needless to say it's way way faster than the 9500 it replaced.

I agree that the 550 or 620 would have been better for my 2nd PC, but I never bought this cpu for my 2nd PC, I bought it to upgrade my daughters PC from the 3.2Ghz P4 641 (Cedar Mills), since the first X2 245 was DOA I gave her my old X2 3800+ and mobo (Manchester core 939 pin) that I had sitting on the bench in the basement and used her new mobo in my 2nd PC

Since she is up and running Windows 7 (RC) just fine streaming blu rays from my MozartTx HTPC when I got the X2 245 back from rma I put it in my 2nd pc in place of a 6000+

Now that I have a 6000+ available I will switch out my daughters 3800+ and give her the 6000+ (since I have to Install Win 7 retail anyway)

I think I will still get a 620 for my 2nd PC just for encoding after I take care of some other higher priorities

Yeah, BE's are nice, my HTPC has a X4 940 BE

ocgw

peace

[budz]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

They didn't release the names of the winners of the October 24/25

I know dammit!!! I get my copy of W7 on Tuesday.

I think I will still get a 620 for my 2nd PC just for encoding after I take care of some higher priorities

You know you're gonna buy it right!
I just emailed my cousin to ask her when she wants her new pc built. I gave her some specs of a system with a Intel Yorkfield Quad E8200 cpu & Pentium Dual Core Wolfdale E6300 cpu and of course the AMD Quad 620.

[ocgw]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

They didn't release the names of the winners of the October 24/25

I know dammit!!! I get my copy of W7 on Tuesday.

I think I will still get a 620 for my 2nd PC just for encoding after I take care of some higher priorities

You know you're gonna buy it right!
I just emailed my cousin to ask her when she wants her new pc built. I gave her some specs of a system with a Intel Yorkfield Quad E8200 cpu & Pentium Dual Core Wolfdale E6300 cpu and of course the AMD Quad 620.

She can't go wrong either way

ocgw

peace

[ocgw]

Been reencoding a blu ray all night (both cores @ 100%), the cheap oem thermalpaste I put on this Regor X2 245 has "settled" a bit, temps @ 41-42c*

BD Rebuilder, the worst torture test of your cpu oc I know

ocgw

peace

[ocgw]

double post

[budz]

I'm also looking to build a new system,but I'm waiting for the newegg.com 7 For 7 Sweepstakes to end

I wanna win something off that newegg 7 for 7 sweepstakes too! I was surprised the first day someone from Maui won!

They didn't release the names of the winners of the October 24/25

They did today and I still didn't win anything.
Just 2 more days to go for this contest!

[ocgw]

Seems to be running stable @ 3.9Ghz now

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=850055

ocgw

peace