AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 550 3.10GHz Black Edition

littlepuppy · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:27

Anyone running with one of these?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-249-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

Be interested to know how you are finding it?

wbc1 · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:30

Isn't that just a phenom II 955 with 2 cores disabled? (whereas 720 had 1 core disabled?)

edit: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/phenom-ii-x2,review-31594-4.html

gt_junkie · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:37

That would be awesome in a low power HTPC rig.

Great price too.

gt

Balb0wa · 2 Jun 2009 at 14:43

come on someone buy one :-)

these look great chips

Trunks9486 · 2 Jun 2009 at 16:08

The Athlon is actually more interesting to me, albeit kind of expensive IMO.

Spooter · 2 Jun 2009 at 17:04

Looks pretty good, be lucky if you get one that has 4 working cores like in the above review.

jak731 · 2 Jun 2009 at 17:29

Would be freaking awesome if you get one that became a X4 955, saving around £100. The 720 became a 940 i think so it was good to get an extra core but not nearly as good as this.

siumatfung · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:56

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-cpu-overclock,2304.html

and

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-x2,2324.html

Happy Reading

jak731 · 2 Jun 2009 at 19:13

More success, at 3.8GHz

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/phenom-athlon-ii-x2_15.html#sect0

http://www.xbitlabs.com/misc/picture/?src=/images/cpu/phenom-athlon-ii-x2/4cores.png&1=1

musicman53 · 2 Jun 2009 at 20:50

I would get one but only just gone and got a 7850 BE.
Might sell it in a week or so and get the 550

owenbglos · 2 Jun 2009 at 20:57

wow looks gr8 value for money fair play

gamesaregood · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:23

Very tempted by one of these! Not that I have a chance of unlocking with my motherboard

Balb0wa · 3 Jun 2009 at 09:29

so which motherboards with ACC allows you to unlock these then?

ive got a dfi 790FXB-M2RSH but apparently that doesnt unlock them.

"A product manager from Biostar says that any board with an SB750 southbridge can technically achieve the unlock. ASRock confirms the same, and gave us its test data with a number of CPUs indicating a fairly even split between chips that will unlock and run stably, chips that will unlock but aren’t stable, and chips that won’t unlock at all. "

biuro74 · 3 Jun 2009 at 17:51

Biostar and ASRock only AFAIK.

Balb0wa · 3 Jun 2009 at 18:10

ive heard these do :

Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 rev 2.0 £58.11 ish
Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 (jes, nForce ulocking PhII well as SB750 ) £50 ish
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P (AM3 board with DDR3 DIMM Slots)

Things took a turn for the better when we switched to the triple core Phenom II X3 720 as the Gigabyte has a trick up its sleeve. In the BIOS you can use a hidden option Ctrl-F1 to enter Advanced Chipset Features and then you can enable Nvidia Core Calibration and turn on the fourth core in this triple core processor. Gigabyte is somewhat coy about this feature as Ctrl-F1 isn't mentioned on the POST screen and neither does it appear in the manual. We would have been none the wiser if we hadn't been shown a Gigabyte marketing presentation that explained how to unleash the fourth core.

wupwup · 3 Jun 2009 at 22:34

wait! this is a quad core using only 2? why would they bother. surely its cheaper to make dual cores?

jlss · 3 Jun 2009 at 23:02

Could be upgrade time for me

Tonyator · 3 Jun 2009 at 23:08

wupwup said:
wait! this is a quad core using only 2? why would they bother. surely its cheaper to make dual cores?

They are the quads that don't work properly, having faulty cores, the same as the X3's having one faulty core.

Balb0wa · 4 Jun 2009 at 11:58

ive gone for a 550, will see tomorrow if my mobo can unlock the extra cores.

apparently the first batch out , the cores work ok.

we shall see

wupwup · 4 Jun 2009 at 22:06

so your runniny faulty cpus? dosnt sound verry...