Athlon X2 7750 vs. Intel E5200 OC & Value

Andrew1990

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The chip looks good when looking at non overclocked processors. It seems to have the same clock-for-clock performance as the E5200, but when factoring in the overclocking, the E5200 wins.

Seems like a great chip to replace a low end X2.
 

Tempered81

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wow, nice review. the e5200 is taking the cake in gaming performance, and has more OC headroom
 

VirtualLarry

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Interesting, they got their E5200 to 4Ghz, at only 1.416v (CPU-Z load).
But they are using a CPU PLL voltage of 1.82v, isn't that high for 45nm? What is the default CPU PLL voltage?

Anyone notice that the write performance bandwidth (Everest test) was markedly lower for those AMD chips that have L3 cache instead of just L2? It looks like the L3 is a bottleneck.
I guess that could be due to having unganged versus ganged memory controller settings in the BIOS. I don't think that the review specifies.
 

formulav8

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Unfortunately my e5200 cpu is a dog. I can't get it to be completely stable above 3.2/3.3ghz or so. The e7200 I had, had no problems doing 3.6ghz on a decent voltage bump. Oh well... What can you do...


Jason