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Phenom II who has built one and what are your thoughts?
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i've just got back from shopping. now i'm ready to test it.
Good good
Probably OCZ Freeze, I haven't heard about a O/S being 32/64 affecting an overclock how so? Got a link for me to have a read?
How much did it cost you roughly to upgrade then? Motherboard/RAM/CPU wise I mean...
As I might do it one day (funds pending) as im still on my X2 4400
64bit uses more of the cpu. its always been the case with amd cpu. my old phemon 9850 can run at 2.9ghz with stock volts on 32bit of xp/vista. but on 64bit vista it can only get to 2.7ghz with stock volts..
i will look for some links after i've set this up.
Wrong! after you have set it up & overclocked it.
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How much did it cost you roughly to upgrade then? Motherboard/RAM/CPU wise I mean...
As I might do it one day (funds pending) as im still on my X2 4400
Well seeing as I bought the chip on release, about £500. However, my old X2 4200 sold for £50 on the MM, motherboard for £30, DDR RAM for a total of £32 so when you think about it, I practically got a component free
I'm happy with what I paid for it all
Not to mention my GTX 280 for £240
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I keep getting tempted to grab a Phenom II 940 and a new board.
I have no need for one, as i'm on a Q6600 at the mo, but I just keep getting tempted back to AMD, if only to 'have a play'.
That's exactly the reason I did it
Just something new to play with, and been out of the AMD-loop for so long I wanted to try clocking a Phenom.
I've been wanting to upgrade to a phenom from my X2 4200 for ages, but I dunno if I should wait till AM3, since I only have an AM2 board (M2N32) that probably doesn't support Phenom 2s.
Anyone know what the roadmap for AM3 motherboards/CPUs is?
Seems like a great chip (in comparison to recent AMD offerings).
Anyone know what the roadmap for AM3 motherboards/CPUs is?
Seems like a great chip (in comparison to recent AMD offerings).
hehe...
now its setup. i've clocked it to 3.5ghz just by upping the mutiplier first on stock volts. so far its stable. next thing is to up the fsb...
AMD OverDrive stabilty test and prime95 and afew rounds of CINEBENCH R10 64bit..What are you using to test stabilty?
But looking good so far
for my chip, 3.5ghz is max just with 17.5x on stock volts in 64bit, upping the fsb should help to get alittle more. in 32bit im guessing it'll do 3.7-3.8ghz
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vista 64bit i use as main os..Which O/S do you use as your main one?
Either way providing you have the cooling shoould be plenty left with a bump of voltage
as for voltage, upping the voltage in the bios doesn't up the vcore, it up's the cpu vddc,
lol. i don't know whats cpu vddc... i thought cpu vid is vcore on amd chips..How strange
I put together an upgrade using a Phenom II 940 BE on a DFI UT 790FX M2R this morning, so far I am very pleased with it, and I haven't overclocked it yet, I'm going to run it in for a few days first, I always like to do that with new CPU's. Right now I am using the stock HSF but I do have an Noctua N12 on my C2D which I will switch over in a few days, when I am certain everything is ok.
I upgraded from an C2D E6600 at 3ghz. As you might imagine, at stock 3Ghz it isn't widly faster than the C2D where the extra cores are not needed, but for the type of multi tasking I do the system is much smoother and outright faster over all.
I play a lot of Supreme Commander, which does utilise more than 2 cores and that is much better, that is probably the area I have noticed the biggest differance so far today, it's very smooth indeed and stays smooth as the game progresses, unlike the C2D which would be ok, perfectly playable, but not totally smooth, and zooming in while much was going on would cause stutter on my C2D, not so on the Phenom II.
Temperature is ok, it's idling at 40c right now, but as I said, I am only using the stock HSF and I just used the ready applied thermal compound. My case isn't the greatest in terms of cooling though, I built it more with being quiet in mind, I use a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 with 4 120mm Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 fans in. When I put the Noctua on using some fresh MX2 thermal compound in a few days, I expect to see temperatures drop dramatically, then I will try some overclocking after the thermal compound has cured, so another day or so I reckon.
Oh incidentally, I am using Windows 7 Beta 7000 at the moment. One problem I did find is that the latest official Bios for my DFI, that allows it to support the Phenom II, disables the onboard LAN (both of them) under Vista 64 and Windows 7 64. I already knew it did under Vista but I did not know that it would under W7 as-well. Fortunately I have a few old NIC's lying around, it's running fine with a Realtek nic right now, hopefully they fix this little issue with the next bios release.
To be honest though, for an official bios that is a bad mistake, it should not have been officially released with such an error in it, fortunately I knew about it before hand and was prepared to deal with it. That will not be true of everyone though.
I upgraded from an C2D E6600 at 3ghz. As you might imagine, at stock 3Ghz it isn't widly faster than the C2D where the extra cores are not needed, but for the type of multi tasking I do the system is much smoother and outright faster over all.
I play a lot of Supreme Commander, which does utilise more than 2 cores and that is much better, that is probably the area I have noticed the biggest differance so far today, it's very smooth indeed and stays smooth as the game progresses, unlike the C2D which would be ok, perfectly playable, but not totally smooth, and zooming in while much was going on would cause stutter on my C2D, not so on the Phenom II.
Temperature is ok, it's idling at 40c right now, but as I said, I am only using the stock HSF and I just used the ready applied thermal compound. My case isn't the greatest in terms of cooling though, I built it more with being quiet in mind, I use a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 with 4 120mm Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 fans in. When I put the Noctua on using some fresh MX2 thermal compound in a few days, I expect to see temperatures drop dramatically, then I will try some overclocking after the thermal compound has cured, so another day or so I reckon.
Oh incidentally, I am using Windows 7 Beta 7000 at the moment. One problem I did find is that the latest official Bios for my DFI, that allows it to support the Phenom II, disables the onboard LAN (both of them) under Vista 64 and Windows 7 64. I already knew it did under Vista but I did not know that it would under W7 as-well. Fortunately I have a few old NIC's lying around, it's running fine with a Realtek nic right now, hopefully they fix this little issue with the next bios release.
To be honest though, for an official bios that is a bad mistake, it should not have been officially released with such an error in it, fortunately I knew about it before hand and was prepared to deal with it. That will not be true of everyone though.
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I'm using an 940 on the same mobo & using the latest beta bios which does not have the lan issue.