What a drag.
It'd have been nice to have a hardcopy to reference to rather than constantly have to refer back to this review...
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AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.80 GHz
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It'd have been nice to have a hardcopy to reference to rather than constantly have to refer back to this review...
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"Sadly, the tested model gave faulty temperature readings, like many other AMD processors out there. Under idle it showed a reading below the ambient temperature, which was enough to dismiss readings as not valid. AMD Overdrive was used to monitor the core temperature."
HI,
I have this CPU and I am satisfied with it very much. It gives a lot of performances, it is silent and it`s not heating up at all. Actually, I just check my ambient temperature and it is 18 C degrees while in the same time the CPU shows 24 C degrees which is great as I just stopped playing 2 hours stalker clear sky. Why do you think this CPU is showing faulty info of its temperature. I think 45 nm give him more better heating up, that`s all;
HI,
I have this CPU and I am satisfied with it very much. It gives a lot of performances, it is silent and it`s not heating up at all. Actually, I just check my ambient temperature and it is 18 C degrees while in the same time the CPU shows 24 C degrees which is great as I just stopped playing 2 hours stalker clear sky. Why do you think this CPU is showing faulty info of its temperature. I think 45 nm give him more better heating up, that`s all;
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He is speaking of his specific sample for the review. Not stating all samples of this model and/or batch.
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also, just because your ambient is lower than the readout doesnt mean its not wrong.
It could be 10C ambient and your CPU reading 30C, but it might really be 40C
it doesnt really matter if its out, so long as the CPU works - but its still annoying that they read wrong.
It could be 10C ambient and your CPU reading 30C, but it might really be 40C
it doesnt really matter if its out, so long as the CPU works - but its still annoying that they read wrong.
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No but, really, sometimes when I come home and I usually left my windows half open (bear in mind it`s winter time) but not too cold like in say St. Pete, I start my comp and Everest say my CPU is from 7,8 up to 10,11 C. So while I am running applications and fave game, so after an hour it gets up to 20 and finally as a maximum temperature, (meaning the room is heated up and machine is working in full load) it says 30 C. Thus this is the down and up limit for my cp unit. But I have one question then...This short temperature variables, can that affect CPU bad in time cuz of possible condensation...or I shouldn't`t think about that...!? Thx!
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"it doesnt really matter if its out, so long as the CPU works - but its still annoying that they read wrong."
Agree !
Agree !
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There wouldn't be any condensation because your cpu and/or hsf isnt colder than your ambient air. it's warmer.