Socket AM2-AMD Athlon 3000+ Review

yes WWM i shall live vicariously though you till my semperon 3000+ AM2 gets here already preped the board's chipset with AS5 any other places the board get hot i have the same board as ya K9N SLI but just waiting on the chip from monarch

Do NF4 NB watercoolers fit on nf5?

CPU:AMD AM2 Althon64 3000+
MB: MSI K9N SLI Platinum
DRAM: PATRIOT XBL DDRII 1000 512MBX2
VGA:ELSA 6800Ultra
HD:Seagate 7200.7 80GB
POWER:AcBel 550W
Cooler:Tower112





DDRII 720 1T
CPUMARK=>213
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9900/am18005iv.jpg













311X7=>2805Mhz
DDRII 623 CL3 3-3-9 1T
CPUMARK=>312
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7874/am280516tv.jpg











311X7=>2805Mhz
DDRII 1122 4 4-4-12 2T
CPUMARK=>335
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2470/am280521wf.jpg

Windwithme I am looking at picking up one of these mobos for a budget rig and I was wondering just how high does the V-core and v-dimm on this go?

1ghz O/C on air is pretty descent. Yields of the new memory controller look pretty good as well with many people already over 1ghz DDR2. Hoping this winter 65nm transition gets some big dogs out for us all to play with! We will need em to compete with conroe setups cause they all look to be running as fast as current Pentium D 900 series chips.

wow. im amazed. and this is on a effin 3000, wonder what the 4000+ can pull

Guys look at the lowest end Conroe raping FX-62 and then be amazed. AM2 performance - :lastweek:

well there is ppl interested buying today and its cheap also... so why come here to bash a nice reivew from WWM ???? to say something 99% ppl here knows?

besides let me explain this plain and simple for you

conroe new March from intel yes impressive the best out there right now but you havent seen the new March from AMD you dont what it will bring you dont have any clue you are just watching K8 in ddr2 nothing else....

Great stuff there windwithme.

I would just like to remind everyone that this chip is $109 on newegg right now ;)

Hence the reason it was chosen for the AMD Gaming on a budget rig here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=101396

:)

Perkam

Mine just came in and ill def play with it this weekend and post some numbers up. Im ideling at 32C with the stock cooler, and i just mounted it using Arctic Ceramique. Anyways Im aiming to pickup a better HSF this weekend, once I can get ahold of one (if not locally im heading up to Rochester to Frozen CPU saturday). Apparently any that use the stock 3 prong mounting system work alright on AM2 brackets?

Nice overclock on air!

That's a pretty solid OC. I'll have to look into getting this for an interim CPU until the X2s drop in price.

need to see some more benchies... right now I don't see any benefit to the AM2 socket, My proc is almost exact same speed, but my ram is less than half the speed, and I still get almost exact same results... there must be some application where the ddr2 makes a diff :confused:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8...ark332s6xh.jpg

*edit* of course he is using .1v less so he should have some headroom, whereas my processor is at the max for air... but still, clock-for-clock no difference I can see.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sho...spx?i=2762&p=5

Any problems setting up the system?

I cannot get a picture on the first boot.

My system:

MSI K9N SLI Platinum
AM2 3000+
2x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 800
MSI x800
WD 74GB Raptor
Enermax Liberty 500W

RAM and Graphics card worked flawlessly on former system.