AMD Socket 939 X2 4600 back in stock at only £119.99+VAT !!

El Jimben · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:22

Bah, you won't get the max overclock out of your CPU if you use such a conservative amount of voltage

joeyjojo · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:27

El Jimben said:
Bah, you won't get the max overclock out of your CPU if you use such a conservative amount of voltage

Truth. Give them 1.55 and see what happens :cool:

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:37

joeyjojo said:
Truth. Give them 1.55 and see what happens

any recommendations on fsb/ multiplier settings?

currently (as you can see 285/10x)

Mattus · 8 Jan 2007 at 00:26

Not really seeing the point in buying these if you're going to overclock. For less money you can get an Opteron 165/170 which will probably clock better and has 1MB cache/core.

malcolm · 8 Jan 2007 at 07:37

I have an Opteron 165 in one of my PC's and it maxes out at 2.5Ghz. That's probably because it's in an ASRock 939Dual motherboard. The board hits 270 plus FSB with ease, but the x9 multiplier means the CPU speed is limited. I nearly bought one of the DFI RD200 boards when they were on special at £30 plus vat, but now DFI street is shut down I'm glad I missed the chance!

So I've bought one of these 4600's and will swap the 165 into my nForce 3 rig which is running an old 3500+ Winchester @ 2.6. This way I might get both of my rigs closer to the 3 Gig mark, and, more importantly, they will both be dual core.

DJKahuna · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:52

That's the thing with the multis, a 4600+ has 12 which means 250x12 as opposed to a 165 which only has 9 which means 333x9 which on most boards isn't possible. The 170 only has 10 which means 300x10 which again, on most boards, isn't possible. Most boards can reach 250 without a problem, most memory can reach 250 without a problem (i can get 320 out of mine on a good day as long as CPU multi is way down (at about 7)).

In games like UT2004, if you're adding 64 bots (start with 32 and then add another 32 in console once game has started) then clock speed is all that matters (even if a 1ghz can just run 32 bots with the occasional lag). Same idea with HL2 and GMod in Particular (if you've spawned like 100 NPC's that are gonna be fighting, then a 3Ghz dual core is gonna be better than a 2.5Ghz Dual core).

TheVoice · 8 Jan 2007 at 11:35

Any idea of how quickly these are selling at? Want to wait till Thursday if I can, so that I'm home on Friday to sign for it.

Gliding_Nut · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:24

Arrrgghhhh!!!

After months of waiting, searching and deliberating, I've just sourced and ordered an Opty 165...!!

Have I done the right thing or would I be better off getting shot of the Opty and buying one of these?

Gibbo · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:31

TheVoice said:
Any idea of how quickly these are selling at? Want to wait till Thursday if I can, so that I'm home on Friday to sign for it.

Hi there

Well demand is unreal, sold 200pcs over the weekend and a further 100 today. Can only get another 200pcs with us for tomorrow and at the moment cannot source any more. Buy now to definetely secure one as these things can be very hard to find.

On a positive side we just sourced a load of Athlon 4000's OEM at a great price, see our website for these.

Plus I have found some X2 4800 retail chips, which are not so cheap but still a bargain!!

locutus12 · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:33

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Well demand is unreal, sold 200pcs over the weekend and a further 100 today. Can only get another 200pcs with us for tomorrow and at the moment cannot source any more. Buy now to definetely secure one as these things can be very hard to find.

On a positive side we just sourced a load of Athlon 4000's OEM at a great price, see our website for these.

Plus I have found some X2 4800 retail chips, which are not so cheap but still a bargain!!

lol, gibbo you must be able to source them, right now i can buy 200pcs of any 939 CPU. the only reason i dont is im not a trader and simply dont have that kind of capital, but they are available

go kick your suppliers arse.

p.s. glad to here they are selling well at least.

DJKahuna · 8 Jan 2007 at 14:39

Gibbo said:
Well demand is unreal, sold 200pcs over the weekend and a further 100 today. Can only get another 200pcs with us for tomorrow and at the moment cannot source any more. Buy now to definetely secure one as these things can be very hard to find.

200 over the weekend! Wow! I must've been one of first to order then! And yeah, i just saw about the ETA on the 4800's. 11/01/2007. And the price: approx £190. They're gonna sell like hotcakes dipped in honey and smothered in chocolate

. If i'd have had the extra money and patience to wait, i'd have got one of them instead. But ce la vie.

And can we please get a sample stepping (even better just give us all of the writing on top of the IHS) from those that went on sale a few days ago? I wanna research OC's for them.

xe-cute · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:13

If I hadn't bought a New OEM x2 4800+ for £200 Between Xmas and New Year I would have got one of these instead.

Still don't know if the x2 4800 was worth the extra £80 compared to the cheap price for this x2 4600 here?

Suppose I could always auction the 4800+ instead (saw one go for almost £300 last week) and get the 4600 from here to use instead and pcoket some cash to go towards a new monitor so I have duals.

Gibbo · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:32

locutus12 said:
lol, gibbo you must be able to source them, right now i can buy 200pcs of any 939 CPU. the only reason i dont is im not a trader and simply dont have that kind of capital, but they are available go kick your suppliers arse.

p.s. glad to here they are selling well at least.

Hi there

Just found another 500 and took them. Seems nowhere in Europe has any now, shall start looking in the far east next to see if I can grab more. Damn these are popular and its gotta be to do with the release of Vista in the pipeline so everybody is going dual core to enhance Vista performance.

yozzer2001 · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:13

Can anybody tell me if these cpus(x2 4600) will fit in a LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D it only says it will support upto 3700+ on the box ,dont know if ill need a bios update
thanks need help before i order
have got

LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
4 x 512mb pc3200
amd 64xp 3200
ocuk 7900 gs

also will this be a vast improvment ,cause i think cpu bottlenecks system.
advice needed
thanks

also again what type of cooler would i need got stock on the 3200

Hades · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:08

yozzer2001 said:
Can anybody tell me if these cpus(x2 4600) will fit in a LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D it only says it will support upto 3700+ on the box ,dont know if ill need a bios update
thanks need help before i order
have got

LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
4 x 512mb pc3200
amd 64xp 3200
ocuk 7900 gs

also will this be a vast improvment ,cause i think cpu bottlenecks system.
advice needed
thanks
also again what type of cooler would i need got stock on the 3200

Should work fine. BIOS update at worst case.

TheVoice · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:10

Awww, the price on these things has gone up by about £12.

Still good decent value I know, but I liked the other price more!

b.cummins · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:49

TheVoice said:
Awww, the price on these things has gone up by about £12.

Still good decent value I know, but I liked the other price more!

Demand suddenly sky-rocketed.. YOU ALL SAW IT!

TheVoice · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:59

Ah well, might order mine tonight then, lest it jumps another tenner!

Don't have to worry anymore about not being at home during the day this week at least - found out earlier on that we've got no lectures and seminars for the next two weeks, because other courses have exams (although we don't). Quite happy, although it would have been nice to have been told sooner!

DJKahuna · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:24

TheVoice said:
Ah well, might order mine tonight then, lest it jumps another tenner!

Don't have to worry anymore about not being at home during the day this week at least - found out earlier on that we've got no lectures and seminars for the next two weeks, because other courses have exams (although we don't). Quite happy, although it would have been nice to have been told sooner!

About £10 sooner i bet. Looks like they're gonna make a right bomb on this lot! So nowhere in the whole of EU is likely to have them? Wow!

to Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, but most of all, to france.

AMD must be running really low then. These could be the last 4600+ 939's we see people. Get 'em while you can! (now i sound like i'm advertising for OCUK).

El Jimben · 8 Jan 2007 at 20:01

b.cummins said:
any recommendations on fsb/ multiplier settings?

currently (as you can see 285/10x)

Hmm maybe you've just got a chip that doesn't clock very well?

I know I've only got a x2 3800 but I managed to get it to 2.5GHz from 2GHz before I had to give it anymore volts.

Although saying that I see you've got the same mobo as mine, albeit not the 'deluxe' version. If it has the same 'vcore overvolt' option as mine does, it might not be giving the chip as much juice as it reckons. Mine was supposed to be running at 1.4V + 200mv but on Sandra, CPUZ etc etc I don't think I ever saw it report the vcore as 1.6v, not once!

EDIT: At all the people considering the x2 4600, get an opty! Bound to clock better on stock volts methinks.