X2 4400+ 65nm processor just arrived at my door

[thecoolnessrune]

When I purchased it, I was sorta expecting the heatpipe cooler that came with the 90nm chips. Instead, all that's there is a standard aluminum block heatsink. I'm really sort of disappointed cause now I suppose I can't really expect to overclock this thing much at all.. And I dont really have the money to invest in a new cooler

I spose I'll put this thing together tomorrow and see what she does..

EDIT: So I put this thing together with my bro today and started overclocking it. From what we see right now we can get a stable overclock of 2.8Ghz at 1.392V. Not that bad on a stock cooler. Idles around 28C and loads about 52C.

I'm pleased with the results. Still gonna make sure we're completely stable but for an IGP chipset we're pleased.

The totals were as follows:

MAX HTT: 294Mhz
Stable HTT: 280Mhz (95%)

MAX Mhz: 2,932.5Mhz (11.5x multi at 255Mhz HTT)

Final stable Mhz: 2,793Mhz (10.5x multi at 266HTT)

It's a BH-G1 stepping chip if anyone is curious. Hopefully we'll eventually get an Arctic Freezer pro to bring down the temps. Other than that I think this is as much as she'll do. So we're pleased at the results.

EDIT2: I appear to be solid now, I'll be running tests throughout the night to be sure. I also overclocked the integrated GPU from 425Mhz to 460Mhz stable. It may not be much but it can play 1080P video without breaking a sweat so in the end I'm highly pleased with this system!

for me and bro! Thank you for bearing with us! I'll answer any questions you wish to ask.

 

[firewolfsm]

The Arctic Freezer is like $17 at the right place and more than enough to cool those chips.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

It does indeed seem like I'll have to get one of those.. Looking at this thing.. seems to have all the makings of an inefficient obnoxiously loud cooler..

 

[Killrose]

I bought an AMD AM2 Opteron Heatpipe cooler off ebay for $15 shipped and it was brand new unused. I just checked and the guy was out of them, had some 939 Opteron 4-pipe unit for $17.50 shipped. But I don't think those fit on AM2.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Yeah, I think I'll get an Arctic Freezer along with my other parts when I start building my quad machine. I was just disappointed since everyone talked about gettign the heatpipe cooler, only to find this little dinky thing that's no better than my ancient Speeze P4 cooler. I guess its because these 65nm chips are supposed to be cooler I guess.

 

[GeezerMan]

The 939 and the AM2 heatpipe HSF work on either AM2 or 939. The AM2 style usually comes with the 4 pin fan, but the 4 pin fan will work with a 3 pin board.

 

[CTho9305]

The 65nm chips are all 65W - there were a lot of 89W 90nm chips. Lower wattage => cheaper heatsink does the job (for the vast majority of users who aren't trying for crazy OCs).

 

[bryanW1995]

try it out and see how it goes. you might be surprised at your oc, even with the stock fan.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
try it out and see how it goes. you might be surprised at your oc, even with the stock fan.

Indeed, I'll mark this thread and update it tomorrow with preliminaries when I get it all going.

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
The 939 and the AM2 heatpipe HSF work on either AM2 or 939. The AM2 style usually comes with the 4 pin fan, but the 4 pin fan will work with a 3 pin board.

Thats what I thought. Isnt the 4-pin used on "cool n quiet" capable motherboards?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Initial post updated with overclock results.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Updated the initial post with final results. I'll answer any questions you guys wish to pose. Thanks for listening!

 

[bryanW1995]

nice job. why did you go from 2932 down to 2793?

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
nice job. why did you go from 2932 down to 2793?

The system *could* post but showed signs of instability and also gave bad factoring with the ram. The 2793 gave us the best mix of HT bandwidth, clock power, memory timings, and stability.

And for those who would like to keep track of this file/VM server, you can watch the sigx. Tomorrow it gets expanded to 920GB of storage .

http://www.sigx.yuriy.net/images/xheymrdj.png

 

[geokilla]

If I remember correctly, the CPU speed is the king and RAM speed and timings come second. The speed of the HT link doesn't really matter since it has little to no impact on the performance of your computer.

BTW, what do you mean by bad factoring with the RAM?

 

[heymrdj]

The ram could only run at 393Mhz. WE wanted it to run near 667.

At 2.9Ghz, Windows would periodically BSOD, and as a 24/7 server, that's uunacceptable.