Comments on: Athlon II X4 620: “Ferrari? This Mustang Can Hang!!!”

By: Archer

Archer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:40:26 +0000

bonzer October 4, 2009 at 5:10 pm

“Great work, keep it up. There have been a couple of web reviews that have cranked up the a2-x4 towards 4-gig stable, one on an asrock M3A785GXH/128M, and the other was the asus M4A785TD-V EVO which i cant seem to find now.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2922/amd_athlon_ii_x4_620_processor_review_quad_core_for_mainstream/index3.html

I much prefer the MSI 785GM-E65 and look forward to your results with it, problem is that msi is SLOW on bios releases,,,”

The MSi 785GM-E65 That I purchased is not a good clocker (HTref is limited to around ~260). I will do no testing on it.

By: Archer

Archer — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:28:11 +0000

The MSi board was a flop:( It is now in htpc duty. I will possibly be doing a HTPC blog in the coming weeks. Stay away from this board at this time unless you have a BE as the HT ref wont get out of the 260’s. IDK if it is a problem with the 785G or some of the manufactures but it is not only MSi.

By: Drizzt5

Drizzt5 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:19:17 +0000

Nice… I am considering buying one of these…. kind of.

By: bonzer

bonzer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:10:41 +0000

Great work, keep it up. There have been a couple of web reviews that have cranked up the a2-x4 towards 4-gig stable, one on an asrock M3A785GXH/128M, and the other was the asus M4A785TD-V EVO which i cant seem to find now.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2922/amd_athlon_ii_x4_620_processor_review_quad_core_for_mainstream/index3.html

I much prefer the MSI 785GM-E65 and look forward to your results with it, problem is that msi is SLOW on bios releases,,,

By: Archer

Archer — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:02:31 +0000

I have changed the MB but am having some issues that I am in contact with the manufacturer about. I hope I can post a blog with the MSi board soon as it runs a lot cooler and more efficently.

By: Neuromancer

Neuromancer — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:56:04 +0000

Nice write up Archer. I also have found that voltage plays little effect in generating more heat on AMD CPUs. Clock speed and CPUNB freq, definitely have more of an effect on temperature than voltage.

Having said that, if temps get to high, they do not like more volts. Think everyone knows that by now though.

By: Archer

Archer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:48:22 +0000

I am working on a new cooling solution to allow me to increase the V and possibly allow me to take it to a stable 4. The problem I have is I can fold and crunch at 3.9 and do general computation, and web browsing but I cant seem to do any benching ( I plan on it).

By: e6600

e6600 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:42:45 +0000

nice!!
my 240×2 also tops out at 3.7ghz, 1.475vcore

these are great cheap cpus