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Athlon X2 5200+ 45nm AM3 may unlock to Phenom FX5200

As stated, IBT sorted out now:

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To 20 passes on high anyway.

The raise in vCore means I'm hitting 50°C. Not too worrying. Case fans still on low.

Edit: I was web browsing while running IBT hence the variable times.
 
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Uriel said:
Not a lot. It's a C3 deneb rather than C2 so same differences as the Phenom revisions.

This seems to generate much less heat and require less voltage than my 5000+ (mine looked like it was locked for a reason). The multiplier is 11.5 rather than 11. I think I got lucky and just got a much healthier chip this time round.

Nicely done getting 3.6 GHz out of your 5000+ by the way. What have you set the CPU-NB to? The bus on my rig is limited to 300, being hit or miss about whether it'll post consistently above that so never saw how high the chip could go. Getting over 282 means I need to over-volt my RAM, which is why I'm sitting at this speed.
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Im using a bios that is designed for the 5000+, For some reason overclocking in bios is a no go with this mobo, but if i use overdrive i can hit fsb 327 easy with a little added volts.
 
Phatzy said:
Im using a bios that is designed for the 5000+, For some reason overclocking in bios is a no go with this mobo, but if i use overdrive i can hit fsb 327 easy with a little added volts.
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I presume you're POSTing and booting at stock or a low overclock and then applying overdrive settings in Windows?

Edit: Just a warning to anyone thinking of buying one of these. I'm seeing recent reports of Regor versions popping up too from recent UK stock.
 
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You've given me an idea Phatzy. Just messing with overdrive. Dropped memory speed, CPU, NB and HT a bit just to see how high it'll go and still blend for a few minutes. Bumped up vCore to 1.35, which is what I think some of the higher phenom IIs do.

298FSB for 3.4 GHz hasn't died straight away - so we'll see where we get to...

:)

Edit: Nope - hit the platform limit at 300fsb, same as with the 5000+.

Managed to blend for a while up to 3.45GHz. Anything above that was instant crap out territory though.
 
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Crikey! :eek: The CPU-NB on this thing just destroys my 5000+. Couldn't get that to 2400mhz. Just blending on this with CPU-NB at 3102 MHz and HT at 2820 MHz (the multi is maxed at 10). CPU-NB voltage is 1.275.

Should point out I've put RAM back to stock volts so back at 3.24GHz for the cores.

Edit: spoke too soon. BSOD followed by no POST. I think I'll have to do it more systematically when I have time.
 
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whats a good but dirt cheap motherboard to go with one of these? ive got 2gig or ddr2, and a tv card +other bits spare, thinking of building my sister a htpc ish pc :) if i can do it for under 100quid of new bits (case, psu, mobo,cpu)
 
pingu666 said:
whats a good but dirt cheap motherboard to go with one of these? ive got 2gig or ddr2, and a tv card +other bits spare, thinking of building my sister a htpc ish pc :) if i can do it for under 100quid of new bits (case, psu, mobo,cpu)
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Maybe an AsRock board with UCC or ECS board that supports unlocking? However - keep an eye on voltages as the cheaper ones are only rated for 95w CPUs. That's keeping it dirt cheap though. If you get an unlock with them I don't think they'll clock too high.

If you want to unlock and overclock, or just have a bit more voltage headroom for getting unlocked cores and cache stable, I like the look of the Asus M4A88T-M. That offers support for 140w CPUs so I could see it being a decent overclocking board too.

Edit: one AsRock UCC board supports both DDR2 and DDR3. With the others just sell the DDR2 and buy DDR3. Have you seen memory prices lately?
 
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Someone on another forum with a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 just posted a screenshot of one of these unlocked at 3.8GHz. No stability testing yet.

Darn my 300FSB platform limit!
 
Speaking of 300FSB platform limit - just posted this in another thread.

No real stability testing at this speed yet, save for 5x intelburn on standard.


Uriel said:
New entry from me on unlocked Athlon 5200+ 45nm AKA Phenom FX-5200
1.35v vCore, 1.3v CPU/NB Voltage
SuperPi 20.461s
Fritz 8034

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