BlingBlingArsch
Golden Member
hi everyone,
built this lil rig for a friend. we decided to go for micro ATX, choice was between MSI and ECS, some reviews rated the ECS very good so we bought the ECS and some other components:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2,2 GHz, boxed)
Chieftec Mini-Tower (270 Watt / 24-Pin-Stecker)
92mm Casefan, Chieftec, backside of the case, sucking air, 2200 RpM)
Elitegroup RS480-M (M-ATX, practically everythin onboard)
2 x 512 MB Twinmos Twin Pack DDR-400 CL2.5
DVD-ROM LG Standard
Hitachi 80 G
Install was horrible to say the least. out of the box bios was 1.0b, from March 05, a longt time before dualcores were available. First boot, the X2 was recognized as "unknown hammer cpu". Well okay, so i switched to just use it as a singlecore and install Win XP first. Several bluescreens occured while partitioning the hdd, one was saying: bad_pooler_caller (whatever that means). Bios flashin was not possible at this time. kept on searchin old boxes with old comp stuff and found a old floppy, hooray. Flashin the bios the 1.0g dating 21.07.05 was easy but only at first glance. some reboots and hyroglyphy letters later suddenly the screen remained blank and i didnt see anything except for some drops of sweat on my forhead. Luckily i found the CMOS reset jumper and after that it allowed me to boot up, set the bios options properly and install windows without any blue screen etc. Installation problem solved.
drivers: very simple. radeon mobo driver from the ATI site, Realtek Sound and Ethernet drivers. thats it.
Stresstest: Prime95 in two independant processes for more than 24 hours with SETI in the background and some other appz. Successfully finished without any checksum errors showing up. Temps according to speedfan never went above 56°C.
overclocking: too bad the bro i built it for is a cautious and old fart. besides his own stories about how he oced his 486 back in the days he didnt want to hear anything bout pushing thise combo to the limit. so far i only checked the bios options, CPU clock setting from 200-250, Multi up to 11, Memory clock up to 250MHz, Voltage, CL setting etc.
Value and applications: i tested the X2 with Terragen, which is not multithreaded but i was running two processes, one for each core, both at 100% load. It showed doubled performance compared to single cores. After that, and for me this was a surprise, the rig showed an impressing score in the ZHLT-Compiler-Benchmark. This bench is kinda old but it uses both cores to the maximum. As u can see the microATX rig owned a "normal" dual MP easily.
here is the benchmark i used. feel free to add ur results in this thread cuz iam interested in how other duallies will score.
http://www.kk3d.de/counter-strike/zhltbench/
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Manchester @ 2200), Test Result = 0:00:28.28 (hau]t0t
built this lil rig for a friend. we decided to go for micro ATX, choice was between MSI and ECS, some reviews rated the ECS very good so we bought the ECS and some other components:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2,2 GHz, boxed)
Chieftec Mini-Tower (270 Watt / 24-Pin-Stecker)
92mm Casefan, Chieftec, backside of the case, sucking air, 2200 RpM)
Elitegroup RS480-M (M-ATX, practically everythin onboard)
2 x 512 MB Twinmos Twin Pack DDR-400 CL2.5
DVD-ROM LG Standard
Hitachi 80 G
Install was horrible to say the least. out of the box bios was 1.0b, from March 05, a longt time before dualcores were available. First boot, the X2 was recognized as "unknown hammer cpu". Well okay, so i switched to just use it as a singlecore and install Win XP first. Several bluescreens occured while partitioning the hdd, one was saying: bad_pooler_caller (whatever that means). Bios flashin was not possible at this time. kept on searchin old boxes with old comp stuff and found a old floppy, hooray. Flashin the bios the 1.0g dating 21.07.05 was easy but only at first glance. some reboots and hyroglyphy letters later suddenly the screen remained blank and i didnt see anything except for some drops of sweat on my forhead. Luckily i found the CMOS reset jumper and after that it allowed me to boot up, set the bios options properly and install windows without any blue screen etc. Installation problem solved.
drivers: very simple. radeon mobo driver from the ATI site, Realtek Sound and Ethernet drivers. thats it.
Stresstest: Prime95 in two independant processes for more than 24 hours with SETI in the background and some other appz. Successfully finished without any checksum errors showing up. Temps according to speedfan never went above 56°C.
overclocking: too bad the bro i built it for is a cautious and old fart. besides his own stories about how he oced his 486 back in the days he didnt want to hear anything bout pushing thise combo to the limit. so far i only checked the bios options, CPU clock setting from 200-250, Multi up to 11, Memory clock up to 250MHz, Voltage, CL setting etc.
Value and applications: i tested the X2 with Terragen, which is not multithreaded but i was running two processes, one for each core, both at 100% load. It showed doubled performance compared to single cores. After that, and for me this was a surprise, the rig showed an impressing score in the ZHLT-Compiler-Benchmark. This bench is kinda old but it uses both cores to the maximum. As u can see the microATX rig owned a "normal" dual MP easily.
here is the benchmark i used. feel free to add ur results in this thread cuz iam interested in how other duallies will score.
http://www.kk3d.de/counter-strike/zhltbench/
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Manchester @ 2200), Test Result = 0:00:28.28 (hau]t0t
