damian Posted June 6, 2009 Posted June 6, 2009 Due to some financial troubles, I had to get rid of quite a lot of hardware, with some money made I was able to buy a new chip and video card to use as my primary rig. Thought I'd share my results (copied and pasted from a different forum to save time) Had some time to play with the Phenom II X2 550 last night. Not to bad for a $105> processor Test Setup: CPU - AMD Phenom II X2 550 Cooling - Xigmatek HDT-S1283 w/Ultra Kaze, Apevia 120mm Motherboard - ASRock A780FullHD 780g M-ATX RAM - 2X1GB G.Skill DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) GPU - HIS Radeon HD4850 512MB PSU - Corsair VX550W -For starters I did some overclocking with low cpu voltage. -3.7GHz @ 1.3V>1.328V -3.8GHz @ 1.35V>1.352V -3.9GHz @ 1.45V>1.448V Unfortunately 3.9GHz was the most I could get out of this chip. I'm not sure if its the CPU or the 780g. I didn't have many voltage options to change on the motherboard, but even having the CPU Voltage at 1.55V, NB Voltage at 1.5V did nothing to help me get to 4GHz. It's a rather low end board though so something tells me I can get to and past 4GHz with at least a 790**/Sb750 chipset. Hopefully by the end of the month I'll have enough for a decent motherboard, that new Foxconn board is looking good though :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted June 6, 2009 Posted June 6, 2009 (edited) Testing done on air. This chip runs really cool. Turns out my benching setup went to waste as the chip ran below 45C throughout testing (I edited the pic because it was hard on the eyes before) Edited June 6, 2009 by damian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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