X2 400

[johndixon]

How good is the AMD X2 4400? Is it worth £90? Can it be overclocked very much?


John

 

[SkeeterUK]

Better to get a opteron 170 for 70 quid its got more cache and will oc far better.

 

[topgun06]

Well someone bought one off me recently for £97 on eBay. But from what i can remember they can't be overclocked that much. Like above, better off with a dual core Opteron.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Better to get a opteron 170 for 70 quid its got more cache and will oc far better.

What?

both have 1mb cache's per core.

4400 is clocked at 2200mhz, 170 is clocked at 2000mhz

Both can have bad and good clocking cores, the stepping can be a good indicator of how well the core will clock though, not always the case though.

OP: do a search in the oc'ing sub-forum for X2 overclocks, there is a recent large thread with various overclocks from 4400 cpu's.

 

[squiffy]

Well someone bought one off me recently for £97 on eBay. But from what i can remember they can't be overclocked that much. Like above, better off with a dual core Opteron.

Can reach 2.7ghz on the 4400x2

 

[SkeeterUK]

My mistake i thought it had only 512kb x2 (1mb total) cache.

Still the opteron is higher quality build so you will get better oc from it.

 

[str]

The latest batches of X2/Opteron Toledo CPUs going around have the same codes etc so it's no so much a gamble like it was before. Most get to 2.7GHz on stock volts and some go a bit higher.

There's not that much difference even with 2 x 512MB cache like with the 4200+ just make sure to get a Toledo core if you want a good chance of hitting 2.7GHz +. The Manchesters run a bit cooler but you might get unlucky with that and be limited to 2.5GHz or so.

 

[pompeyboy]

latest opterons (E6) are very good clockers, i just bought one to test so ill let you know how i get on soon enough , as far as iv found you should get 2.8 on air no probs with opteron 165/170, iv seen a few 3000+ on air with latest steppings

 

[Amonlym]

ive got a much earlier week (tho same stepping overall iirc) as pretty much all the current 939 cpu's

it will do 3000mhz @1.55 on WC. later weeks are only getting better

keep in mind, these all tend to run VERY hot (if you get an LCB9E) so dont be to frightened if you see >60c when you start oc.
lapping helped a lot, decapping helped a lot more. still runs hot tho.

 

[johndixon]

Thanks for all that very usefull information.

Cheers


John

 

[queamin]

My 4200 is at 2.95 but need to work on it a bit to hit 3gigs as not stable at all but mb can only hit 1.4 volts .
But it do until later in the year when crysis is out.

 

[P373]

i got an LCB9E 3800x2, does 2.8 on stock volts np