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who the fuck else is still rocking one of these deadly beasts?
>>55225099
bite my shiny metal CPU
955 BE here.
Was mid-grade when I got it 6 or whatever years ago, still does alright I guess.
had my 1090t since 2012, have just chucked water cooling on it and paired it with a gtx 970. my system is op but it shouldn't be lol
>>55225289
Same here but still on air. Sadly, that fucker got too hot a few years ago and i had to downclock that thing to stop it freezing.
>>55225242
My nigga, 955 BE here too.
>had phenom ii x6 1100t BE since 2011
>2015 rolls around
> Hm. I'm probably not cranking this thing as much as a i could
> rending two x264 vids
>cpu utalization at 30%
> add four more x264 renders
>rendering around 300fps total or something beyond stupid like that
>leave room to go make sandwich cause waiting for shit to render
>leave room to make food while rending
>come back
>"what smells like burning silicon?"
>sniff around
>come to tower
>ohshitnigger.jpg
>remove side panel to check mobo
>get 6 inches away from board with light
>SNAP_MOTHERFUCKER+600dB-edition.mp3
>magic smoke left some caps on motherboard
I took everything apart and sold my phenom for like $175 i think, got a used g3258 and some used msi board with the money
i miss that cpu but god damn usb 3 and sata 3 are such a privilage.
>>55225242
>>55225584
Another 955bro reporting in
What are your clocks? Mine gets unstable over 4ghz
>tfw another six months or so until finally zen upgrade
waitingsolong.jpg
I like this bad boy but 7 years are 7 years
>>55225717
Did the board you were using have mosfet heatsinks, and were you using cooling that cooled said mosfet heatsinks, ie. stock fan-axial fan not tower?
>>55225099
I used a Phenom I until 2012, heavy, daily use.
Upgraded the station with a Phenom II for 20 €, its still a usable Desktop machine. But only stock clocks, either the PSU and mainboard don't support OC.
965 overclocked to 3,8ghz
makes me happy to know this cpu doesnt give up on me
In my storage server since upgrade to Skylake on my Desktop PC. It's an alright processor, dependable.
>>55225894
The original GPU was really shitty, a Hd2400 Pro. I recently saw someone running one with a Skylake, this thing can't even handle Aero... A Skylake IGP is around 850 % faster.
Phenom 965 x4 3.7Ghz here!
>>55225717
wtf overclocks did you have going goddamn hahaha. 1100t too beastly.
1090t is probs the bare minimum to keep up with a gtx 970 lol, had to bump the fsb up to 213mhz bringing ram to 1420mhz and the cpu-nb and ht-links to 2130, cause everything was stuttering.
965BE and proud
Waiting for ZEN but if it doesn't deliver i'm giving my money to jews.
my motherboard is only a ga-970a-d3 though, which is only 4+1 phase board so i can't get much more power out of it atm. but it has mosfet cooling and my case is thermally hectic. have melted a motherboard overclocking this thing before though :(
>>55226558
we'll still need new mobos and ram for zen :(
>>55226586
I'm ready to make that jump. Need to anyway, mine doesn't even have gigabit ethernet on board.
Didn't really know what i was doing back then. Was it 2011? Late 2010? Time just fucks off at unprecedented rate.
>>55226586
its time for me anyways sitting with 4gb ram here
going to upgrade with zen and put me some 8gb on the mobo
>>55226704
and upgrade to ddr4 :p
>>55225099
Me, 955 BE here still rocking hard
>>55225242
>>55225584
>>55225847
BROFIST
No oc right now because fan died, so i have it in passive cooling underclocked. As soon as my H5 ultimate arrives i will oc it to 4ghz and beyond
>>55225099
I was using a 1090T at 4GHz until a couple of months back. Dark Souls III prompted me to upgrade, as it ran like absolute shit due to hammering one core and mostly ignoring the others.
>>55225099
>beast
you mean peace of shit
>>55225099
I am running an FX 6300 which is a piece of shit tbqhfam, wish I had bought Intel for lower power consumption.
Was the Phenom any better?
>>55226787
>>55226934
It was top of it's class with over 300 confirmed kills against intel
>>55226934
The hex core Thubans generally slightly outperform a 6300 clock for clock due to having six real cores instead of three modules, but they can't clock nearly as high. They were good for their day, whereas the 6300 really wasn't two and a half years later.
>>55226934
>>55227022
amd vishera cores are way better than the thubans. but zen will be soooo good.
better be cheap as amd usually is though or i'ma use this thuban till it melts.
i still remember half-life 2 on a dual core athlon tho. they were not prosperous days.
I've got an x4 that I garbage picked, rocking a Core2 Duo while it collects dust though
just upgraded from an 8320e to a 2600k this week. huge leap in performance for under $200.
1100t BE here.
i was going to upgrade to the bulldozer but then they fucked that up.
Since then i stopped being a gaymer. don't need to upgrade for a long time to watch my blu ray rips and 10 bit anime
>>55226934
also the fx 6300 should be possible to get much faster than the phenom, the power consumption is only 95w so you can clock it up easy. make sure your ram is 1866mhz to match the memory controller?
>>55225099
phenom 9150e, still good enough.
Running a 4690K now, but I fucking loved my Athlon II X4 620. Managed to push the thing to 3.5GHz stable, purely on FSB overclocking.
im building a hand me down desktop pc for my nephew to play wow on, it has a phenom 9500 and a gtx 460.
>>55225242
>>55225584
>>55225847
I still got mine running here as well. Love this fucker.
k i do have to mention and this is trufax here but i did have a 955 BE before i bought the 1090t for $50, so like i'm in this club right? i still have mine, but i haven't tested it since it fell out of a motherboard 'someone' was holding. i imagine she'll be right though.
>>55227216
>amd vishera cores are way better than the thubans
No, they're not. All Piledriver did was get AMD back to where they were with K10 after Bulldozer completely shit the bed and ended up as a straight downgrade in terms of IPC.
>>55226792
>H5 ultimate
Hot damn this might finally be a replacement for my 212evo
However it seems hard to come by, where did you order yours from?
>>55228276
Depends where you live, i could order it from a backwater shop in my country that happens to be a retailer from Cryorig. Look for H7 too if you want a smaller and cheaper one. Also, forget about Cryorig H5 universal, shit fan. Ultimate or bust.
Alternate.com have them too
>>55225099
I use my old 1055T paired with 32GB ECC 1600 as my main server at home. Does its job fantastically.
Used it on my main rig before that, OCed it to 3.8 Ghz rock solid.
Bretty gud considering 1055 CPUs have locked multipliers
>>55225099
I have the black edition. It's clocked stable at 4.0
Phenom X2 550 here
>>55228687
same here
don't know if I can wait for zen
>>55228743
I'm waiting for a zen laptop, with a freesync & hdr monitor
i'm going to keep waiting forever...
>>55228799
>Zen laptop
Do you want your house to burn down?
>>55228833
i believe in amd familia, i'm impressed with the shit they've been able to do on 28nm concerning power consumption... i hope it carries over to their new processors
>>55225099
>noko
This post is so 2008 I'm having flash backs to shopped pics of obama in a turban
965BE reporting in
>>55225099
here's mine,
waiting for an AM4 mobo to appears and upgrade it to zen, might go bristolridge temporarily before going to zen because its a fucking space heater from cpu alone
>>55225941
is this the one with the TLB bugs?
I've had a 965 BE sitting around for a while. I wish I had a use for it.
>>55228687
>>55228743
>tfw my x2 555 didn't unlock to a tri or quad core
Serves me the fuck right for buying one so late (spring 2011) but I was a poorfag at the time and couldn't afford a 2500k + the cost of an intel motherboard.
It still works, I just don't have a use for it since I upgraded to Haslel.
>>55225099
>noko
i have an x2 550 that i keep to test am3+ mobos .
i used it recently and it does work but its 2 cores
1055T (95W)
Never got around to overclocking it
I have a 1075t. Should I get an Rx 480?
>>55229836
>Bought x2 555
>It unlocked to x6
>my motherboard didnt support it
I have a 555BE, but it has all the cores unlocked so its pretty much a 955 BE.
This was my main PC up until November 2015 when I built a new one, went Intel because AMD processors suck now, i7 4790k, R9 390, 16GB RAM.
Currently this PC has a 2012 R2 install on it that I use for fucking around with (got the license from school).
955be, 4ghz, can't believe it's still holding up. it's getting mighty hot though. can't wait for it to die so i have a reason to finally upgrade tbqh
i would go intel now but i'll hold on until zen comes to see how much of a failure it is
1055T welcome here?
>>55229991
yes phrend ii
Why the fuck does the 1090t still cost over 150€ used holy shit fucking delusional shills
Water cooled 4.2ghz Phenom II X6 1055T here muh niggs.
I see no reason to upgrade.
>>55230108
>€
There's your problem.
>>55230156
yes, there are many reason to upgrade anon-kun.
like how about lowering that electrical bill, because a fucking 45nm cpu at 4.2ghz might trigger nuclear fusion
>>55230231
ur just jelly of muh space-heater.
pretty sure I'm using the 830 still, fucking bottlenecks like crazy though
>>55225099
>slower than vishera
635 reporting in. Now the side machine, but did me well for 8 years.
>>55225099
I had the APU version. I would still keep it it's weakness is lack of SSSE3/SSE4, so when there was opportunity to swap it for FM2/Trinity, I took it. Otherwise great chip, stable platform (and that was with motherboard from ASRock).
>>55226881
Pic related.
>>55229987
>7 years old cpu
>runs witcher 3 on high with r9 380
Can't complain i guess
Had a 955 BE for like 4-5 years, then upgraded to 4690k because AMD CPUs are shit now
>>55225099
Phenom II 1055T here. I recently got it for free as an upgrade to my Athlon II X4 and honestly I'm disappointed. The difference is negligible when it comes to gaming. Video rendering and other things that can fully use 6 cores is blazing fast though.
It's bottlenecking my GTX 970 like a motherfucker in games that only effectively use 1-2 cores but I'll hold on to it for a while because I'm curious how it will fare in better threaded games that are released these days.
>>55225099
whats the i5 2500k of the amd cpus?
>>55230907
1055t is fast mang
>>55231230
the x4 965 was THE chip for gaming .
fuck i remember how good it really was
I'm still running a slowass original Phenom. And don't even care because why would I need anything faster unless I was doing a ton of media work or playing modern "games" (barely interactive movies)?
>>55231230
bump
955 BE here at 4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM, a HD 7870 and a 240 GB SSD. I really don't feel the need to upgrade, it gets the job done. I think I can rock this config for another year or two.
>>55231230
1090T/1100T?
Phenom II X2 555BE here, still rocking.
Can unlock x4 but its unstable.
Soon to be replaced by i7 6700, sorry.
>>55227216
I played HL2 on an Athlon XP briefly before I went to dual Xeon quads and it was okay.
I wouldn't dare try it on the new Source engine.
Phenom 2 X4 945 reporting in.
>>55231375
I'm at stock speeds. Getting drops to 30 FPS in Team Fortress 2 and 15 FPS in Mount & Blade Warband. Turbo Boost doesn't seem to help much, in fact in TF2 benchmarks it has an adverse affect.
Overclocking to 3.3 GHz did give a considerable boost but I'm stuck with stock cooling and can't seem to get things all that stable. I know for a fact this CPU used to run at 3.5 though.
Phenom II 1090T here 6 cores 16GB of DDR3.
It's a great runs muh GNU/Linux like a dream.
>>55225099
pardon the super old cpu-z
i'll keep using this shitbox of a computer until it completely dies, which will probably come later this summer with the memory problems i keep running into
965BE
Proabably helps that I only play FFXIV.
Phenom II x6 1055T siting idle here. It performs well for what I do don't really need an upgrade but I would like some more sata ports, new gpu and sata 3 because I am pretty sure I start to saturate this motherboard when copying in between drives. This motherboard also has all the ram slots filled so I want to move to 16gb ram for more catching. I will be upgrading to zen when it comes, once motherboards mature a bit.
>>55225099
Waiting for a Zen + rx480 upgrade.
I bought a Phenon II X4 925 2.8GHz some days ago and I received it yesterday.
When a bought a r9 380X for my desktop I installed my old r9 270X on a prebuilt HP PC where I work (family run) but the CPU (an Athlon X2 220) wasn't enough and bottlenecked the card.
Unfortunately the mobo didn't support 125W CPU.
Now it's installed and works like a charm, at least in Dark Souls 1.
>>55225099
my bro has the X3 version in his daily rig
>>55231391
>>55231461
huh would have tought the FX8350 would be it
I have a 940BE that has served as the CPU of my bedside computer/fileserver.
Now that I got my laptop back up and running though I've been debating moving that rig to next to my desk.
Wish i had a better board for it, the current one is kinda shitty, and I almost set it on fire by overclocking the unholy hell out of the CPU.
>>55225099
deadly meaning housefires?
>>55225099
1090T reporting the fuck in. Waiting for Zen.
>53 C
Fired up Prime95 for a few seconds. It's hot as fuck right now and all I have is a Hyper 212+ (not EVO) though I should probably clean my case too.
I don't really have anything else to compare it to and I don't game as much as I should with this 970, but I haven't noticed the CPU being a hindrance in my otherwise daily usage. An occasional blue screen comes out of nowhere, though.
>>55230832
How much of a difference did you notice?
Test
>>55229811
I remember this from years ago, what did it do again?..
I have a 960T. Four cores by default, one more core that can be unlocked, and one more that is unusable.
>>55234445
Make you stay in the thread after replying
I have a 965be for desktop at 3.6Ghz, I can't get over 3.8 which I am guessing is due to my nvidia chipset motherboard.
Also a 920 in my home server which sure is nice.
>>55235593
Dear god.... which nvidia chipset it is?
Fitting a phenom to shit mobo is a no no sir
>>55233685
>An occasional blue screen comes out of nowhere, though.
Nice stable overclock there pal.
oh fuck the lols. didn't expect so many of you guys to have phenoms...
>>55236474
and i'm actually using a corsair h75 watercooler and my temps refuse to breach 45-50c under load.
>tfw fell for the 720 X3 meme
>didn't get a quad core but also paid more than if I got a dual core
>>55236501
you think my H5 Ultimate will be good for OCing the 955?
>>55236524
fuck yeah, your case better have good airflow though or your mobo may overheat unless it's 8+2 phase with boss cooling, since that cooler just blows it all out the back without any air directed at the mobo parts, u dig
>>55236347
It's happened maybe once or twice a month on average over the past year. I've had it since 2010 so maybe it's just getting old.
My 965be did 4,2 at 1.475v
Was a good cpu, now using a i7, and damn its a lot faster
>>55236604
>1.475V
Jesus, how hot did it get? What did you cool it with?
Also in which applications are you seeing the i7 much faster? I can't decide between waiting for zen or getting the 6700k now
>>55236524
i have a M4A89GTD so it have 8+2, i have the case open right now beause fans are dead, i will buy 4 120mm fans and put them, i can manage to set 2 in 2 out and blow the hot air outside
I was using some sempron from 2006 until 2014. Now I'm using an i5 6500.
Feels good going from a destitute NEET to a not-so-poor NEET.
>>55236637
oh man you gotta fix that shit :(
>>55236636
what cpu are you running now? you should wait for zen, intel cpu's will probably be on sale frequently after intel actually have something to compete against (in theory)
>>55236636
1,475 was good for a phenom, most people had to go over 1.5 to get over 4ghz.
Also, the i7 is faster in everything, loading applications, rendering, gaming.
But also, my 3770k is clocked to 4,3ghz
>>55236744
Running 955be now
>>55236751
Mine is sitting at 4ghz at under 1.4v. Not sure exactly how much since i won't see the computer for another week or so
It idles at 45c but that is due to not being able to set the target temperature on my mobo lower, fuck if i know why. Over 60c under load especially during summer
>>55236751
What voltage are you using for that 3770k? Were you not able to push it a bit more?
I7 3770k here, 4.5Ghz @ 0.08V offset (1.128V under max load)
>>55225099
I love pushing CPUs as far as I can just for fun (and for building cheap PCs to sell/give away to family members), but I ran out of hardware to play with.
Which CPU / motherboard could I spend some money on so I can have some fun again?
>>55237069
Btw. was thinking about a Pentium 4 but I dont know which one exactly, and which motherboard to use.
Also what about the AMD lineup? Is there some old hardware I can get for basically free that could satisfy my needs?
1090t @ 4.1 GHz here
Anyone clocked it higher than me?
Note that I'm using Air cooling
>>55237143
what air cooler? and is your case airflow legit?
>>55237078
there is constantly cheap and/or old amd hardware on ebay, everywhere. and you should get the asus m5a97-evo-r2.0 most legit low key am3 board with 8+2 mosfets.
>>55225099
this has become a general old cpu thread lol
>>55233540
also motherfucker these chips are badass the motherboard could melt to liquid around it and you could probs still use your thuban chip again after, srs.
>>55237586
fucking true, last year my mobos capacitors fucking exploded and everything burn away. but the fucking cpu. Holy shit this 955
I have literally no idea why it says 1.68v but now I'm scared to use my overclocked profile in k10stat
>>55237639
here's my "normal" profile for low loads
>>55237608
man legit same thing happened to me my mosfet chips literally popped like a firework and blew sparks. completely dead, but that was the very chip i'm using right now in a new board and she gud. ram still worked too, gotta vouch for gigabyte surge protection yo
>>55237658
1100t just that little bit more awesome than the 1090t :(
>>55237767
Honestly senpai I was gonna get the 1090t but they were out of stock
I have a 955 and a guy i know is selling his 1090t for 40 bucks, its worth it? or should i wait for zen and use those 40 bucks in a better zen setup?
Don't that CPU have some missing features making modern games not run at all.
MGSV didn't work on some older AMD CPUs until a patch.
>>55237563
Thx m8, will buy that one.
>>55237988
Running witcher 3 just fine
Features like what?
>>55238103
Modern instruction sets.
>>55238172
The most pressing concern, and one that will hopefully be fixed so quickly that I’ll feel like a fool for having written about it, relates to CPUs that don’t support SSE4.1; that includes the still-common Phenom II series. People with those CPUs are reporting crashes, often at launch. There is a possible fix but the developers are on the case already and reckon they’ll have a solution ready later today. Good work.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/01/metal-gear-solid-v-phantom-pain-pc-fixes/
>>55238192
interdasting. would be that i have never come across any software that utilizes sse4.1 :s
>>55237939
it isn't much of an upgrade unless you have a powerhouse gpu to drag those extra cores along. upgrading to zen will involve new ram and motherboards all around i'm pretty sure :(
right now is probably the last generation of 'next gen' games that our phenoms will handle guise.
>>55237563
Alpenföhn Olymp
(Its very, very big and rated to 340W)
Case Flow is pretty good (3*200mm + 2*140mm
>>55238172
>>55238192
I ran into that problem with the MGS V launch. It required SSE4.1
>after 7 years it's finally time for 6-core to shine in games
>instruction sets have moved on
Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition. All four cores unlocked and have been stable since I bought it 5-6 years ago.
Might finally upgrade with zen. Was going to with bulldozer... Hopefully it's not another let down. Really want pci passthrough so I can use my r9 270x
>>55225140
I got one in my drawer somewhere in my pile of pentium 3s.
X4 840 here, still kicking
>>55231660
also this
not a Phenom II but im running similar, the Athlon II X2 220, but im swapping it out soon for the X4 630 (need a quadcore for muh gaymen). this generation of CPU, in general, from AMD is solid. the Athlon i have even lets me overclock it a bit, even though it's running in this rig with an eMachines mobo (gotta love nForce chipsets!)
Who /Athlon845/ here? These are Excavator desktop CPUs that perform better clock and IPC than a Phenom II, cost $60 or $70 bucks, and take up only 65 Watts of power. I just ordered one for my new build, which I'll use while I wait for Zen.
My current build is a phenom ii x4 955 though.
>had to get a 212 evo just to get rid of the jet plane noises at idle
>>55242088
forgot pic
>>55242103
It's still shit m8
I ordered one for a client back when it launched because it fit his budget, his A68 motherboard, and he already had a GTX 760. There was no appreciable difference in performance from his dead A10-7700K.
>>55242178
"shit" is relative m8. the price/perf/watts is fantastic. It'll bottleneck me on some games, but overall it's a great placeholder while I wait for entry-budget Zen chips.
>>55225099
Probably the same faggots that still use noko
>>55242227
>overall it's a great placeholder while I wait for entry-budget Zen chips.
You do realize that Raven Ridge and Zen are both going to be on the AM4 socket, not the FM2+?
>>55242293
yes, and? If I stuck with an AM3 mobo I would have to replace that too. The only "upgrade path" I could choose would be to get a skylake cpu so I don't waste money on DDR3 ram.
it's a placeholder because it's going in my new case, with new PSU and eventually new GPUs. I'm getting it now so I can sell my old build and recoup the entire cost.
>>55242330
Why are you waiting on Zen? Zen only makes sense to people who need more threads than sense. An eight-core Zen won't even match a 6-core Ivy Bridge-E, and that's the best case scenario.
phenom 550be here. fml
>>55242357
lol, this is a thread for poorfags with amd processors, not intel shills. fuck off.
>>55242409
>intel shill
>vs words straight from AMD's own mouth
Listen AMcuck'D, even their own Pajeets admitted that expecting similar single-threaded performance from Zen as Haswell-E and Broadwell-E was wishful thinking. They also said that Zen's SMT was not as efficient as Intel's, so their CPUs will be priced accordingly to their Intel counterparts. The leaked benchmarks and slides all but prove that Zen will not be on par with Intel's HEDT CPUs from the last three years.
That's not all bad news, AMDkike. That means that you can get an eight-core Zen for the same price as an i7-6850K rather than paying a grand, because consumers shouldn't expect it to beat the 6-core Broadwell-E by any significant margin. But it's still two-cores more than Intel.
The bad news is that their FSB is shit compared to Intel's LGA-2011-3 and will only have between 16-20 PCIe 3 lanes, not the 28/40 that Intel has.
>>55225099
My parents are still using a build I did for them years ago with a 955 black edition.
Not like they do much on it though.
>>55242497
I am aware of that and don't give a fuck.
>>55242577
If you know that, then why are you disputing this post? >>55242357
>>55242592
your post is shit. AMD is doing an Intel-style "tick tock" with Zen. Zen is the tick where they're shrinking the transistors, and Zen+ is the tock where they'll bring the IPC up to speed with Intel. 6 cores is perfectly sensible for modern, well-threaded game engines and for virtualization. for poorfags like myself, what we want is an improvement over bulldozer and older architectures, which Zen will give us. We don't care what Intel has. Vast majority of vidya don't even bottleneck on i5s two generations old. That's all that matters to most people.
>>55242727
>Zen is the tick where they're shrinking the transistors
No, Zen is a long-awaited tock from their Phenom II days. It has more in common with K10 than it does with any of the Construction cores. Zen+ is a double-tock.
>>55242755
tru, it's a tick and a tock. it's a shrink and a new arch.
965be to 4ghz
Iove this cpu
>>55225099
Housefires reporting
>>55244918
>1.6v
Chill dude, the 45nm node that AMD used for the Phenom IIs may have been a tank of a node but even 1.6v is pushing it.
I'm still waiting for a reason to upgrade.
Doom at max settings is awesome.
Upgraded from my house fire and got a discount on my home owners insurance.
965 BE here, thing is a champ got it running at 3.8Ghz 24/7 & 4Ghz for more intensive work.
Since this is an old CPU thread I guess I should mention this.
How good would an upgrade be from a Pentium 1.8GHz to a C2D 8400 3.0GHz be?
This is my secondary Vostro 200 machine.
Also has 1.5GB of RAM, gotta upgrade it to 4GB as well.
What can I do with this side machine?
>>55225099
yup
x2 550 3.1Ghz
I will have to change box cooler soon
no but I just got an asus laptop with an A10 8700P APU with a radeon R6... shit is soooo slow... FUCK AMD, never again
>>55244945
Custom water keeps it cool enough, I'd go even higher but my motherboard gives an overvoltage error above 1.6v. It might degrade faster but I've yet to see any issues after 5 years
>>55225099
965 here.
Waiting for Zen, however Zen IIRC is only launching with HEDT parts and dual/quad core parts are coming way later, so I might just pick up an i3-7100 instead.
>>55245061
You've run that shit at 1.6v for 5 years and nothing has failed? impressive. And ballsy.
My basement computer has an Athlon II x3 that unlock to a Phenom II x4 with the L2 cache and everything.
>>55236683
Same. Sempron LE-1250 until 2014, and now i5-4430
>>55245011
This is what I plan on getting.
X4 840 here, thing is still a beast.
I know realize ill have to let him go some day...
it hurts
My desktop had a Phenom II X4 830 until 2015 and I replaced it with an Athlon 5350 mini-pc since I don't play games and it uses a tiny fraction of the wattage.
My HTPC has an Athlon II X2 250
>>55245311
now*... i cant handle the feels
>>55225099
I'm stuck with a 965be for the next three years probably.
Going to upgrade my second PC with a 1.8GHz Pentium and 1.5GB of RAM.
I don't know what to do with the thing, I use my main desktop for everything.
Even if I added a decent GPU I don't think it can even game on my TV.
Anybody know any uses for it?
>>55225099
Phenom II 970, my /g/ro
Who Sempron 145 here?
I too, like to use ancient AMD cpu's.
>>55245393
It is basically useless unless you use it as your main computer or have a specific need (seti@home, htpc)
I have the same PC in my basement for the last 7 years.
>>55244918
>>55244953
that is an impressive overclock sir, and you stand testament to my belief that those asus boards are the king clocking board. gotta get me one of them soon and get off 4+1 power so i can squeeze more juice without an -actual- housefire.
>>55245011
buy an asrock 970m pro3 micro-atx motherboard and carefully shove that mofucker into your vostro box AND PUT A PHENOM IN IT
1090T baby. Keeps my room at a balmy 90 degrees year round. :^)
>>55245638
Heh, your little tidbit responding to the crazy Thuban owner reminded me of my attempt to overclock my Phenom II that almost ended horribly.
Long story short overclocking when 4-pin CPU power is the only thing available is a no-no, and while the VRMs survived on a 4+1 board, the power plug on the PSU and the plug socket on the board were both melted from the current crossing from the PSU lines to the board pins. I had to bust out my dremel and carve out the damaged bits of the board socket, and use the other 4 pin on the PSU (it was 4+4) to get the power working again.
I aint ever doing that again cause that scared the fuck out of me when it happened.
>>55225099
>$80
>quard core
>95 tdp, amazingly low power consumption
>overclocks to 3.6 before my ram starts fucking it up for the rest of the system, hardly even upped the volts
glorious phenom II is bae as fuck.
sadly i didn't get decent ram before they started price gouging consumers for no fucking reason.
i refuse to buy ram when it's this goddanm expensive.
>>55241784
This is what AMD fag PC's look like!
>>55245762
that's interesting, even 4+1 vrm's will survive a total meltdown when there's only 4pin cpu power... did the mosfets have heatsinks lol?
also what model power supply the fuck were you using XD
i melted either the mosfets and/or my northbridge when i bumped the cpu-nb to 2600 and clocked my 1090t to 3.6ghz, i think, on my old ga-990fxa-d3. good times. that mobo lasted me 5 years :(
>>55245925
>for no reason
There's a finite supply and companies will pay ANYTHING to keep their old computers running.
>>55245925
>sadly i didn't get decent ram before they started price gouging consumers for no fucking reason.
they blamed it on a factory fire, but all the outlet stores still have hundreds of thousands if not millions of sticks...
pretty sad that only rare once in a blue moon sales has decent pricing for ram.
>>55245937
Nope, but i was actively cooling them with a (rather loud) 70mm fan draped over them. Not as effective as giving them a heatsink, but giving them that much airflow was more than enough to keep them from burning. Plus that board has built in VRM protection that forces the lowest CPU power state for throttling. The only thing that actually melted was the plastic around the plug and input socket, which was easily rectified to allow continued operation.
PSU is an Antec Neo ECO 400C. Good little unit, not the best, but certainly not the worst either.
>>55245925
>>55245952
isn't ddr3 still pretty cheap? you can't get ram rated for faster than 1600 anyway without it being a waste on a phenom ii, internal memory controller runs at 1333mhz so it actually 'prefers' the ram to run at the same speed, in my experience anyway.
so you want the best 1600 c9 (or c8 if that exists for ddr3?) which is substantially less pricey than the epic 1866 and 2133mhz kits that FX core users need.
>>55246018
thermal throttling is the most terrible bios feature i've ever heard of or used. at least on asrock boards, it makes even a well cooled computer near unusable by forcing all the voltages down as soon as it generates any heat or something drastic like that. how paranoid are asrock about their shit melting on people hah.
>>55246058
Depends on how sensitive it's set. Some are super sensitive as you've said, while others, like my own, will go off only when a real overheat event is detected and will counter quick enough to prevent thermal runaway.
And then there's the shit ones (looking at you MSI) where if it goes off at all its usually too late and thermal runaway has struck.
>>55225099
I have this.
It's not actually a phenom though.
>>55225289
>>55225570
Comrades
I've got a 960 in mine.
Planning to >install gentoo soon
>>55245638
I'm >>55244918, not >>55244953.
This is my speccy, still Asus though. Someone on /g/ apparently blew the VRM on a Sabertooth 990fx with an accidental brief (several minutes) run at 1.7v, so 1.6 is probably the absolute limit for 24/7.
>>55245762
Amazing that the mobo survived that, but not surprising that the plugs melted. Heavily overclocked thuban can pull 300w according to the reviews, and mine may have reached 400w (my CPU/NB voltage is raised from 1v to 1.45v).
>>55246669
Forgot to attach image
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WHO ELSE HERE OCTACORE
BASED AMD
>>55246669
Yeah, Phenom II's may be tanks when it comes to the voltage, but good god can they suck down the wattage. Its one of the reasons why I've been iffy on bumping my 940BE to a thuban. The other reason is because I dont want to put such a chip on a damaged board.
Yeah, the board still works, i'm using it right now for my bedside rig's motherboard, but I dont trust it for anything stronger than the current chip that is currently undervolted.
>>55246669
my bad. your overclock, sir, is the impressive one, indubitably.
are you also the one using custom water cooling? do you actually have motherboard water blocks for the nb/sb/mosfets and stuff? :o
>>55246719
yes
>>55246719
mfw amd invented 64 bit architecture and intel have technically been their salty overpriced bitches for it ever since.
>>55246847
Yeah, I'm using custom water. Only a CPU block, no mobo (I don't think they made blocks for the sabertooth), but it's overkill for only cooling the cpu (480mm x 80mm thick rad, 4 gentle typhoons, Liang D5 pump, Heatkiller 3.0 block). CPU temp peaks at 45 degrees during the summer with Prime95. I also put a slow 120mm fan on the VRM heatsinks because otherwise they get hot enough to make me nervous. This was a bit of an experiment to see if a well cooled CPU can be run at a supposedly dangerous voltage for a long time. Might try chilled water eventually, once zen comes out and I don't mind risking killing this setup.
>>55247306
http://www.overclock.net/t/1468642/how-to-watercool-the-asus-990fx-sabertooth-rev2-0-vrms-and-nb
is that your board? cause you could do some hectic mods and really push a 1100t to near 5ghz stable with that setup man foreals.
>>55245577
Fuck man, I don't wanna get rid of it.
>>55245393
>CPU costs $5
>any motherboard capable of taking the CPU will cost $60-$80+
I don't get why people do this, the motherboard costs as much as one that lets you build a completely modern Haswell system with USB3/SATA3/PCIE3. The only difference is that the CPU costs $45 instead of $5 but it also has 400%-500% better IPC.
Had a 1090t with 5870, bought new in 2010 ish, bought r9 290 for $100 off a friend who gave his pc to his sister and sold gpu because she played facebook games. Sold it for more than I had spent on it kek. idk if i should get another 4gb stick for this pc i have now or build a new 1 for it to do the same thing as this one.
i7 870
gtx 660
4gb ram
DELL meme pc
>>55247432
fill it up with hard drives and use it as a debian server for all your storage needs.
>>55247521
Because a lot of us already have motherboards from 2007-09 when those cpus were being used.
>>55227216
>amd vishera cores are way better than the thubans
Even Steamroller cannot consistently beat K10 cores on a clock-to-clock comparison. The only reason Bulldozer wins is through its higher frequencies, and extensions like AVX. The floating point performance is garbage.
>>55247408
Thanks for the link, but my chip is pretty bad. Many people can get 4.2 at 1.5-1.55v, while mine needs 1.6, so I doubt I could get 5ghz without chilled water. Still, my voltage is limited by my motherboard, not my CPU temps, so watercooling could still help significantly
>>55247558
Yes, but the frequencies are MUCH higher. A good Thuban will hit 4.2ghz on air, while a good Vishera will hit 5ghz on air.
>>55248049
vishera will also do it with much lower power and generate a lot less heat, plus the caches are bigger and the internal memory controller supports 1866mhz ram so you can get a lot more out of high end gpu's than you could ever get with phenom's in theory.
I want to get more but don't want to push this old 110mm zalman further. Planning to get the NF-14S soon
>>55241784
>intel inside
kek
unlocked x3 435
>>55246131
what is wrong with your ht speed bro
x4 965 BE here
i come to ya'll with an update.
this is all with 'auto' voltages.
ram timings are all 'auto', so they're where
they would be if it were on 1333mhz.
bumping the FSB to 225mhz is all i have done.
all thermal settings like c1e and cool'n'quiet are all turned on. except thermal voltage throttling obvs is off.
p95 still running while i post dis
>>55247521
It's for upgrading a system you nitwit.
>>55247527
I already have a 1TB and 4TB in my main system, I literally don't need more storage.
>>55249117
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php
"A secure Linux distribution managed through a web-interface. It turns an old PC into a firewall and VPN gateway"
>>55249316
>Firewall
>VPN gateway
How could I benefit from that?
>>55228788
rockin this one
>>55249540
iunno lol you asked for possible uses
>>55225099
Phenom II X6 1055T here.
>>55245393
This is the setup I had since 09, with a 285 gtx i got for 25 bucks. It can play GTA V minimum settings at 1080p, average 25-40 fps, but the only limitation is my 4gb ram, and 1gb vram. When those arent maxed, I get 60fps with minimum stutter.
The ram is tthe only limiting factor. With other games that don't use retarded textures. The CPU is great and it overclocks amazingly. Sadly I am restricted by my motherboard and its SATA ports...but I swear It competes with a G4400. I can't believe that in 7 years since I got the thing all intel can do for budget is 3GHZ dual-cores.
I do video rendering and photo manip at high resolutions and it also works fine both while Im working, and when I export a project.
No worries with that CPU, but I'd reccomend getting 8 gigs of ram. Pair it up with a used gpu with lots of VRAM and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a "modern PC"
>>55245393
does that second pc's motherboard even have the right socket type for a core 2 duo if it's presently running what i assume is a pentium 4?
>>55250548
>http://www.ipcop.org/index.php
he...he can't be that big of an idiot...could he?
>>55228519
>Mah niggah.
1055T reporting in, still going stronk with ecc.
Used as main ZFS storage server, the occasional video conversion and extra room heater.
Athlon X4 750K (3.8GHz) here
It's okay. The strongest CPU I've ever used was an i7 980X and it was noticeably faster than my Athlon but not in such a way that I feel like I'm using a low end CPU. Chances are I'll probably stick to AMD when Zen comes out though I'm sure it wont be as good as Intel's offerings.
>>55250567
i've never actually used an ipcop.
ppga775 and lga775 are incompatiblez according to google :/
i'm just a poor amd fag though i don't know about intel stuff lol
