Anyone know AMD really well?

killadoob said:
Nope, you may notice cache not 100mhz. Benchmarks may show the extra power but daily chores you will not notice it.
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thats 2000 Mhz :), but ya thats what i thought, besides, once u spend the extra R100, then I would have spent R666 , then ppl will say, well, u might as well go x4 for 1100, its only a couple more hundred and so on, it never ends. No, the buck stops here!

With this el cheapo project, my goal was to see just how bad cheap stuff is, and just how much we can get out of it, and does the average, and even above average citizen out there, actually need a super million core super duper fantabulous million dollar machine for home and gaming? Or would something like this cut it? I shall report tomorrow, I am doing the building tonight.
 
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im still running a amd 64 x2 6000+ . as strong as they can go . beats the crap out of some phenoms. depends what you use it for mainly .
 
The 6000+ is two generations old. Like comparing a i7 to pentium 4.
 
well , when i bought it brand new it was R1380 . i can play anything on max with it(my x2) as i havent felt any bottle necks just yet. maybe when games get more cpu intensive anyway only diffrence with the new 250 x2 is the l2 cache is 2mb. stat wise it (amd x2 240/245/250) seems its like 6000+ x2 with l2 2mb . instead of 1mb. i would gladly get a 250 if i actually had the time to find a review to compare these two chippies. because R666 for just an extra 1mb in the cache seems a bit lol. could be buying another 500gig hd with that
 
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Qwikslver said:
The 6000+ is two generations old. Like comparing a i7 to pentium 4.
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well , the amd cpu beats a few phenoms hear and there , but the weaker ones . p4 cant beat the E series can it ? :wtf: that would be a large fail
 
Draconia2 said:
well , when i bought it brand new it was R1380 . i can play anything on max with it(my x2) as i havent felt any bottle necks just yet. maybe when games get more cpu intensive anyway only diffrence with the new 250 x2 is the l2 cache is 2mb. stat wise it (amd x2 240/245/250) seems its like 6000+ x2 with l2 2mb . instead of 1mb. i would gladly get a 250 if i actually had the time to find a review to compare these two chippies. because R666 for just an extra 1mb in the cache seems a bit lol. could be buying another 500gig hd with that
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Lol man. It's not just the extra cache. They're based on completely different architectures. The new ones at 2.6 give about the same performance as your 6000+ @ 3.0.
 
reddevilandy10 said:
Can't wait to hear your review on it!! Just when I thought R1000 was cheap for a mobo! Lol.
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just got time eventually to finish putting the final bits and bobs into my R1300 el cheapo. I have to still drill new holes for the fans I bought, the ones on the el cheapo casing are too small, obviously for a smaller fan. Will let u guys know if it blows up or actually runs :)
 
Drilling holes for a fan? You going to leave the hole the original size or cut it open for the larger fan to actually work?
 
Yes, but you still have a large fan pushing air through a smaller hole so there's no point having a large fan in there.
 
cool, so my el cheapo dual core 2.8 Ghz AMD 240 is cruising, and if I didnt know any better, I sear it works faster than the Intel Quad 2.6 lol, but anyhow, thats 1700 for a complete el cheapo...kaching! Another machine is born in the dudleygb farm :)

Mounted the large fans with cable ties, didnt feel like drilling, got CPU temp of no higher than 40C
 
sweet, i would love to, never OC anything in my life, I will have to go read up, or is it just a matter of a bios setting? I see there is a OC bios setting. Anyone care to point me in the right direction?
 
Read up a little first I think (and maybe try this after cpu and thermal compound have settled down, cos it will run a bit hotter).

Yes it's in the BIOS.. first step is the HT link. For a start change it from 200 to 205 and see what happens, then go from there
 
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