Help acquiring a Phenom CPU!!!

[CH@NO]

Ch@no, I just tried to see if I could get higher than 2.3Ghz. I bumped my CPU Vcore to 1.5 and my chipset I added .25V and didn't get ANY better. If I were you I would get the phenom and then get a board with a 7XX chipset down the road. That's what I plan on doing.

Hi, The last time I checked the latest BIOS of our mobos only supports Phenom stepping B2 and the one that you have is stepping B3, maybe that's the reason why you can push it any.

 

[eidairaman1]

As the Overclock Gods Say- Your mileage will vary.

It's just I'm planning to change my current CPU (X2@2.91GHZ) with a Phenom stepping B3, I think with the 9550/9650 model.....wonder if It will be a healthy upgrade????

But the important thing It's that I WANNA KEEP my current mobo, a Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 that ,for the last I read, if I update the BIOS I can put an AM2+ CPU into my AM2 socket just lowering the HT speed from 3600 to 2000MHZ...so the question is IF are other changes beside the HT link?????....I know the Phenom line aren't good OCkers but I readed that part of the OCking performance depends on the motherboard's chipset, so I wanna ask you If you know how much OCking capabilities my 570SLI chipset will have (talking about the Phenom Line)????.

and finally I'm always wandered WHERE Intel and AMD take the names to their CPU's cores (Presscot, manila, Yorkfield, etc)????....maybe It's just a very noob question but I can found any clue about that.

Again thanks for your always support.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

I had the exact combo you have(windsor core 5200, gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4, 2gig ddr2 800 ram) and I could get a OC of 2874 mhz, but no farther. You have your CPU max'ed I'd say.

Personally I wouldn't put a phenom in that board, kinda be a waste of money buying the phenom and putting it in a board that hinders it's performance. I would stay with what you got until you can make the jump to intel, I just made the jump(check my system specs).

There's no comparison between my old AMD system(basically the samething as you have now) and my intel system. My 3dmark06 benchmark went from 6000 to 10,000 with the addition of the gx2 video card and jumped to just over 15,000 with the addition of my current motherboard/cpu. I'm hitting over 18,000 with my CPU OC'ed at 3993 mhz.

 

[CH@NO]

I had the exact combo you have(windsor core 5200, gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4, 2gig ddr2 800 ram) and I could get a OC of 2874 mhz, but no farther. You have your CPU max'ed I'd say.

Personally I wouldn't put a phenom in that board, kinda be a waste of money buying the phenom and putting it in a board that hinders it's performance. I would stay with what you got until you can make the jump to intel, I just made the jump(check my system specs).

There's no comparison between my old AMD system(basically the samething as you have now) and my intel system. My 3dmark06 benchmark went from 6000 to 10,000 with the addition of the gx2 video card and jumped to just over 15,000 with the addition of my current motherboard/cpu. I'm hitting over 18,000 with my CPU OC'ed at 3993 mhz.

and this 5200+ can logon into windows at 3.02GHZ, do simple tasks and logout just fine, BSOD appears if I stress the system or burn/encode archives, so 2.91GHZ fully stable.

And thanks for the advice, in the next weeks I'll explore the alternatives (while I sell my CPU and mobo) but I'm almost sure I'm going to jump to Intel's Dark Side with an e8400 and a P35 board, keeping my 2GB of OCZ RAM and the X1900GT OCked.

 

[newtekie1]

My rule of thumb is to always buy hardware with the assumpting that it will not overclock at all. If you aren't going to be happy with the performance at stock, don't buy it. Then if it does overclock some you will be happy, if it overclocks a lot you will be even happier.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

and this 5200+ can logon into windows at 3.02GHZ, do simple tasks and logout just fine, BSOD appears if I stress the system or burn/encode archives, so 2.91GHZ fully stable.

And thanks for the advice, in the next weeks I'll explore the alternatives (while I sell my CPU and mobo) but I'm almost sure I'm going to jump to Intel's Dark Side with an e8400 and a P35 board, keeping my 2GB of OCZ RAM and the X1900GT OCked.

I was gonna do a p35 board myself, until I found out that I would of had to use a older 65nm cpu to flash the bios so a 45nm cpu will post(well I would have had to on the p35 board I was looking at, not sure if that goes for all p35 boards). I didn't have a 65nm cpu available to me, so that wasn't a option.