AMD Opteron price reductions effective today!

[Sean_UK]

Temps on my old 4800+ would sky rocket to 65c+ with AMD's stock 4 heatpipe aircooler even when just o/c to 2.7Ghz. So in went one of Scythes high end coolers, o/c to 3Ghz and temps never went above 46c in warm room. So yeah a high end air cooler will make a huge diff.

 

[El Jimben]

Temps on my old 4800+ would sky rocket to 65c+ with AMD's stock 4 heatpipe aircooler even when just o/c to 2.7Ghz. So in went one of Scythes high end coolers, o/c to 3Ghz and temps never went above 46c in warm room. So yeah a high end air cooler will make a huge diff.

I never got the heatpipe cooler, as my Opty was OEM but the AF64 keeps it cool enough for my liking.

 

[birelwf]

ok, took cooler off and cleaned with Akasa TIMClean and lint free cloth. Reset using Arctic Silver 5 but used about a grain of rice size, twisted cooler slightly to 'spread' and now getting the following readings on Speedfan when running Acronis Trueimage Backup

CPU 37-41C
SYS 42C
PWM 44C
Core 1 43C
Core 2 36C

System fan at 2940rpm and OTES 1 & 2 now running at 4320 rpm. What is going on, removed previous thermal paste, which was probably too much but reading various threads etc it states about a grain of rice size but these temps are no better, would it now be worth stripping down the PC removing the M/B and fitting the Zalman fan, thinking of getting the CNPS9500 but already have the CNPS7000, anyone any idea's, haven't even started o/c yet

 

[birelwf]

re-set the cooler and changed the AC5 again. got the following readings ARE THESE BETTER ???

CPU 27 - 30C
SYS 36C - Stays at this all the time
PWM 42C - varies between 41C & 43C
Core 25C - although varies between 24C and 37C mostly around 25C
The above is from Speedfan
Core 1 40C
Core 2 26C
From PC Wizard 2007

PC is idle with speedfan, PC wizard, Firefox and some background stuff running, Task Manager reports 0%- 2% activity. Using Vista Ultimate Opteron 170 running stock with stock cooler, M/B Abit AN8-Sli Fatal1ty

 

[moogie]

have nabbed an opty 175
will drop it in tom afternoon and see what i can push it up to

have my opty 146 at 2.9ghz so fingers crossed

 

[slap ed]

i have sold my x2 4600 and used the money to buy a opty 180 , a good deal me thinks

 

[Sean_UK]

Sold x2 4800 939 (for £75 more than i paid for it new!), Asus mobo, 2Gb G.Skill memory and spent zero £'s extra on upgrade to E6600, Asus P5K, 2Gb Geil Ultra, amazing what some people will pay for older equip sometimes. So went ahead & sold my two bro's equip to upgrade there rigs with little extra funds added, A2Z comment on the first page was correct tbh.

 

[Ross1234]

aare they better than an athlon 3500+ ?

 

[moogie]

the E6600 by a large margin

the x2 are dual cores and will also outperform

 

[moogie]

up to 2.85 @stock volts

temps low 40c's