Yeah, I'll be sure to tweak it eventually but I need to get more
edumacated on the new BIOS settings and what they mean. My HT speed is
running at 1000 which is half what it should be and my NB speed is 1600
which may or may not be stock.
DHSinclair wrote:
Stan,
So happy that you are happy with your new Phenom 2 X3 720 BE.
Will be interested about stuff that happens in the future; you will
tweak, of course!
Can not share. I have moved to C2D. Am happy with how they (3) work
so far.
Thanks,
Duncan
At 16:58 02/18/2009 -0600, you wrote:
Well, I guess Jim didn't approve of my attachment but that's ok.
CPU-z v 1.50 says that its a Phenom 2 X3 720 BE but then you look
further down and the specification string shows Phenom 2 X4 20 Black
Edition. Notice that it has a "20" instead of "720" and that it says
"X4". The screen shot I wanted to show has Window's Task Monitor
showing 4 cores running and Core Temp also shows 4 cores. Either I'm
dopped up or this particular CPU got past QC without one of the cores
being neutered. Anybody want to see that Jpeg just PM me and I'll
send it as I really want to get some feedback on what's happening.
Thanks!
Stan Zaske wrote:
The 720's finally showed up at the Egg last Thursday and the UPS man
delivered it a couple hours ago. Being my first Phenom I was
somewhat confused by the newly unlocked BIOS options on my Biostar
790GX mobo and it kept spontaneously re-booting when I first fired
it up. I thought at first it was because I had all four DIMM slots
filled but it ran fine with my old CPU and then I looked at the VID
and it was set at 1.14v which is seriously low. I bumped it up to
the next tic and now its running fine and so far stable. I also
fiddled with other confusing settings so I'm not 100% that it was
the low VID that was the problem. Anywho, I wanted ask for any
body's input about a curious thing that I have been pondering for an
hour over. I hope I'm not violating list policy by sending an
attachment and if I am then please accept my apology. Take a look at
this Jpeg screen capture and tell me what you think of it. Thanks!
Stan Zaske wrote:
Check it out guys, I think this is the best bang for the buck to
upgrade my old 5400+ BE. :-)
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/phenom_ii_x3_720be/
*snip*
I think the reason AMD targeted the E8400 is due to the third core,
the Phenom II X3 720 BE running at 2.8GHz actually outperforms the
Core 2 Duo E8400 running at 3GHz for rendering; thus supporting
AMD's marketing strategy that three cores are better than two.
That strategy is absolutely true - if the software can support it.
If LAME and TMPGEnc had supported more threads, the Phenom II X3
720 would also have beaten the Core 2 Duo E8400 for them.
Fortunately, more multi-threaded codecs are becoming available, and
I will soon look for one for benchmarking purposes.
What the benchmarks don't show you is that with three cores, a
system will multi-task more smoothly. For example, using a Phenom
II X3 720 for a small server should result in better web server and
SQL server performance, as the extra core could be take advantage of.
I think the AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition is a great chip -
and it is especially good for people who like to tinker and
overclock, as with a cheap 780G based motherboard and DDR2 you can
put together a nice fast overclocked system for significantly less
than it would cost to put together a nicely overclocked E8400
system. Yes, for some benchmarks the E8400 won - but for some
others, it was the triple core 720BE that shined.
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