720 BE fun!

[guskline]

The forum is buzzing with Thuban news and rightfully so. I thought about upgrading but my 965BE runss great at 3700 and the reast of the rig is sweet so I went another way and "retired" my 939mb with the X2-4600 to rig 3 status in another case and added the following:
mb Asus M4A77TD @$84
cpu Phenom II 720BE @$99
ram 4 gig Crucial DDR3 @120

Snagged a onced used Zalman 9700 cheap and purchased Win 7 Home Premium 64.

Installed the rig (see specs below) and what fun! set multiplier to 16 and enabled ACC and auto voltage. Running 4 cores at 3200 solid over 8 hrs on prime 64 with temps no higher than 46C.
What a great chip!

 

[richierich1212]

Could've upgraded the 965 and put that in your 2nd build instead of the 720 😉

 

[guskline]

True, but my 965BE works so well and I had to decide do I spend at least 200 for the 1055 vs 99 for the 720BE. BTW, how does the 1055 overclock?

 

[richierich1212]

overclocks better than the 965, both CPU speed and NB speed. Pretty crazy, with six cores and all.

 

[guskline]

Looks like a MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BD231]

I've been running an x3 720 as my main rig since those chips came out, 3.72ghz was my max, and no fourth core for me. Sweet setup for what I do, though I'll be jumping on the thuban pretty soon; doubling my core count 😀.

Hey richie come to novato bro I've got sticky green stuff :sneaky:.

 

[jedihobbit]

Loved my two 720BEs even though I never got the 4th core!!! They're a blast to "practice" overclocking with. So guskline go have some more fun!!

Had one in a Biostar 790GX XE that was 3.6~GHz stable and another in a Biostar TA760G AM2+ that was 3.5~GHz stable. Sadly didn't keep any notes on OC'ing the 790 before selling the system, did a couple of S & Gs before settling done on 3.5GHz with the 760.

“Fastest” that I achieved using SPi, 16.5 x 233 for 3.844GHz with an 8M run.

Now the fastest using HPi was a 1M run at 15 x 221 = 3.750GHz.

The best 8M run of HPi was with 17 x 217 for 3.689GHz

 

[nyker96]

excellent pick on an unlockable x3. I'd personally sell 965 and get x6 1055. but not bad, now you have another work horse rig.