Esequiel Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 My old PC frazzled out a few days ago I decided to bite the bullet and get something new (but i needed it to be cheap aswell). My old PC was: P4 3.2Ghz 2G DDRII ram GF7200 (or something like that) Ummm thats about it The one iv picked up now is a: AMD Athlon 6400 X2 DC 4050e 2G ram GF 8200 Iv hooked it up for now (not sure if i want to keep vista on it or not lol) and im just hoping someone could tell me about the reliability of these processors. From what i hear there pretty fast but can get very hot. My CPU temp is at 53 atm.....
DCK Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 Eh? Your CPU is either a 6400+ or 4050e. The 6400+ is really hot but costs 100 pounds, while the 4050 is pretty cool and quiet. The 6400+ should run quite warm but nothing particularly unstable or anything. You might want to download CPU-Z to check what your processor is. You can post a screenshot here.
Esequiel Posted October 6, 2008 Author Posted October 6, 2008 Sorry it took so long to reply, here it is:
DCK Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 You're running a 4050e, it should be very fine, stable and cool. It's even clocked itself back to 1 GHz. It probably runs under 25 degrees. The core voltage seems to be pretty insane though. It should run at 1.2V...
Esequiel Posted October 6, 2008 Author Posted October 6, 2008 Well its only just been turned on for a few hours now, looks like the heat has settled at 36, looks like im going to be installing Vista 64 bit on it 2moro and sticking in a couple of 2G sticks of ram.
DCK Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 You could get WAY lower temperatures if you wouldn't be overvolting your processor so much. Was your computer prebuilt or something?
Esequiel Posted October 6, 2008 Author Posted October 6, 2008 Yeah it was a store bought PC My last one was a custom but i needed a PC for tonight and that was the fastest way of getting one without paying upfront :P
DCK Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 You should really lower your CPU voltage to 1.2 volts in the BIOS. An overvolt by .45 volt is not a good thing. The people who built it must've accidentally flagged one of the highest voltages the motherboard could take.
Pyxis Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 Hmm! Something seems pretty crazy about this. (the fact that its showing up as 1Ghz when it should be 2.1ghz) It just reminded me that a certain AMD processor doesnt show up correctly on peoples PCs.. I wonder whether thats the 6400? "Also windows vista does not recognize this processor, must be too new." http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/processors-retail-box/m/47315057/ Perhaps its showing the wrong information? This is what should be showing up: http://www.techpowerup.com/cpudb/487/AMD_Athlon_X2_4050e.html The multiplier should be 10.5, not 5x. and the voltage is stated as 1.15v
McPhee Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 To get CPU-Z to show the actual speed of an AMD chip you need to load the chip, otherwise it goes in to power saving mode. That's why it's showing up as 1GHz. SuperPi is the tool normally used to overload a CPU, calculating Pi to a billion decimal places tends to get the CPUs moving; http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36
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