Santa came early this year :)

Dropped off today

Athlon64x2 4400
Athlon64x2 4600
Athlon64 Venice 3800+
Sempron 3100+ 754 palermo core

So darn busy, might not get to play for a day or so. However, wanted to give u guys an opportunity to request benches and I can compare to 4000+ SD if you'd like. Also, if you want to compare memories and how they behave ie TCCD vs good set of Redline I have I can do that too.

Cooling will be either Coolermaster tower6 or Corsair Cool waterkit. Undecided as of yet. Probably will go with Cool kit.

Board will be DFI UltraD

Fasten ur seatbealt guys these things are gonna rock! :toast: :woot:

Lots of toys! Did you get X2 samples or buy somewhere?

:eek:

:slobber: :slobber:

:D :D :D

Nicey !!!!! Awaiting results !!!

Perkam

Whoa, that is lucky indeed!

Two instances, running simultaneously, of Super 1Mb time on the highest X2 overclock would be nice to see :)

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Dropped off today

Athlon64x2 4400
Athlon64x2 4600
Athlon64 Venice 3800+
Sempron 3100+ 754 palermo core

So darn busy, might not get to play for a day or so. However, wanted to give u guys an opportunity to request benches and I can compare to 4000+ SD if you'd like. Also, if you want to compare memories and how they behave ie TCCD vs good set of Redline I have I can do that too.

Cooling will be either Coolermaster tower6 or Corsair Cool waterkit. Undecided as of yet. Probably will go with Cool kit.

Board will be DFI UltraD

Fasten ur seatbealt guys these things are gonna rock! :toast: :woot:

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I think I am pretty closed to where you live, bro:D
you lucky bastard. :slap:

3100+ palermo sempy....sound promising should o/c better than the one in my avatar just do comparison of all of them and put it on a chart ya know??

did you order them or are you just that special that they sent them to you early?

All these are S939?

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Dropped off today

Athlon64x2 4400
Athlon64x2 4600

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:slobber: Hook us up :D

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All these are S939?

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The Sempron is 754, according to the list in the first post :)

Non of you ask any question/benchmark so far. The word 'Santa' already answer most of your questions.
JNav89GT,
Can you max out the OC on the Sempy and compare it's performance with 3800+ maxed out OC?

Just post max on all cpus to start with, or did santa take you for trade for all those cpu ? Hello ?

;) Yep John... It's me :D

For X2, mostly 64-bit OS required. Comparison between Stock vs max OCed stable (see below) speeds ;) Lots of work, but worth it...

3D Rendering --> Cinebench 64-bit

Media Encoding --> Lame MT 64-bit, Windows Media Encoder 9

Scientific calculations --> ScienceMark2 64-bit

Some stability benches... Not asking for impossible :D (Prime95), but as you suspected Spi 32M would be nice indicator... or "30min Test" from OCCT.

Thanks!

Great stuff, John...

C

I'd like to see 64bit sciencemark benches:

- 3800+ with crappy ram (10x266, 150 divider, 2.5 4 4 8)
- 3800+ with TCCD (10x266, 200 divider, best timings)
- 4600+ with crappy ram (10x266, 150 divider, 2.5 4 4 8)
- 4600+ with TCCD (10x266, 200 divider, same timings as with 3800+)

This so we can see if the X2 will benefit more from faster memory than single core A64's (i mean real world performance wise, not a bandwidth bench :) ).
In many reviews the memory is said to be a bottleneck now, let's see how bad it really is.

wow that is very cool stuff bro

we will waiting for your benches :toast:

All I ever get is coal. :mad:

woah.. nice.. next time put in a good word for me with Santa :D

could you tell us temps vcore stability and general usage of the athlon x2 im very interested in how you "feel" the cpu.

lucky...i wish i got all that lol

hello john

dang dude! i guess Saint Nicolas gets rather jolly in the summer?

no no no, i get it now! you're running off of the pluto calendar...so therefore it's Christmas for YOU...

Lucky you.These X2 must be real faster in real life,rather in benches.Go and try to hit 9000@PC mark2004.Good luck to your o/cs.

i'll take the chip that oc the best from you bro :). name your price :). just want to say have fun benching and ocing, but play it save. a good amd cpu is a terrible thing to waste :). btw, my b-day is coming up, i wonder if santa or anyone will bring me a present :).

my birthday is first than you i think is next monday LOL i want a athlon x2 :(

X2 against:
1. Winnie
2. Venice
3. SD

@ same multi/FSB and best timings please for BH5/UTT/TCCD

See if teh mem controllers are like the 'thoroughbred' winnies or
the 'slower' venice / SD chips (would be a good overall comparison anyway).

Also see had each chip gets along w/ the various memories (need more vdimm/vcore/vchip?)

This will take forever; however it would be a killer review/guide :fact:

Thanks for considering and :upset: that YOU got all this and not me :D :toast:

I thought the X2 core is based on the Venice, or the San Diego?

Nice! Wish I got that...

ok, sorry been working on basement past 24hrs, why I couldn't get to my new toys.
Will be building the pc later today and installing OS etc...
I don't have copy of 64 bit windows and I don't really want to dl and install the beta(if still available) so any benches will be done on standard xp professional sp2.

First off I'll post oc results on the x2 4400. I will use this for 2-3 days, bench etc..., then back that up with the 4600. Same thing. The Venice I can put in a different board, but I only have 2 DFI boards, and I really think to make this a good comparison everything will have to be done within the one setup, which is very time consuming to say the least.
Well lol, except the 754 sempron, I can try to put that in the neighbors bunny cage to see if any of the pins will multiply, but barring any other issues, I will just put that in an available 754 board, which might be a week, to put a system like that together. Sorry guys, I work 4 jobs and the little time I have to do this is STRAINED.

wow 4 jobs. you must be superman :). i'll probably get flame for this, but could you at least give us a hint how you got all these goodies? do you have a hardware site and it's dedicated to amd only? do you work for amd? also are you keeping all the chips or will you sell some :). i know my chances are slim, but it doesn't hurt to ask :).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...ion/trial.mspx

180-day trial CD for 6 bucks shipped :)

i hate you for that awesome bunch of cpu power

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Sorry dude... Didn't mean it that way :cool:


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ok guys
sorry to bait and make u wait
just got system going a few hours ago, after I swapped board into brand new rig, it decided to corrupt bios and in chasing gremlins cost me better part of the day :(

So hot flash and I'm up and going

Going to be concurrent testing with some nice Mushkin Redline pc3500(wanted to try lower rated stuff) and some nice G.Skill GH(BH) I'm going to review.

Teaser screenie on Corsair cool, watercooling.

having issues running 2 instance of super pi 1m at same time
even at low clocks. not sure what to make of that. However, I can run OCCT torture and super Pi 1mb at same time and super pi times don't really decrease :)
Feels like the best of both worlds, I'm sure partially psychological heeh, but everything is SOOOOOOO smooth kinda like P4 but way better :) :) :) :woot:

nice screenie, make sure when you test the 754 it's with a dfi 250 nf3. seriously stable all the time...unless you get the nf4 one...sure go for it :toast:

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i don't have the dfi 754 board :(

here's latest :)

btw this mushkin pc3500 isn't too shabby 255 tight timings at 3.4v right now ;)

sorry to ask
anyone got links to free
cinebench etc... for regular windows xp

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sorry to ask
anyone got links to free
cinebench etc... for regular windows xp

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ftp://ftp3.maxon.net/pub/benchmarks/cinebench_2003.zip

hey nice results man :D
how stable is it on 2.8GHz?

well stable enough for 32m super pi 32m
I tried downing ram to lower multi but no help :(
I think I'm at sweet spot now

very nice results here....
so it should end my wait for SD over here and jump on venice while waiting for X2.

HAH....it takes my comp 45 mins to do 32M....i need a new one

clears OCCT oc test

seems to be about max for cpu and ram, really sweet spot for both
255htt 1:1 memory 2-2-2-6 :) Redline 3500 is actually better than I thought it would be :woot:

santa is latin for "saint" i think.

Very nice JNav89GT ! Congrats! Would like a X2 aswell, bu the prices in Norway are too hiiiiiiiiigh! :slapass:
By the way, just downloaded OCCT, what shall i choose in "monitoring software config" ? I have DFI LP NF4 Ultra with Smartguardian checking my temps.
I can choose between; MBM5, SPEEDFAN, ASUS PC PROBE and none..

And conrad.maranan?!? I've changed my sig for you! :p:

Cant wait to see what you get your 3800+ Venice to ;)

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having issues running 2 instance of super pi 1m at same time
even at low clocks. not sure what to make of that. However, I can run OCCT torture and super Pi 1mb at same time and super pi times don't really decrease :)
Feels like the best of both worlds, I'm sure partially psychological heeh, but everything is SOOOOOOO smooth kinda like P4 but way better :) :) :) :woot:

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To run 2nd superpi, you need to add another superpi folder. The temp file of two superpi can't co-exist in the same folder.

here's dual super pi
had to back down to 250 for CS:Source stability

sweet! just gets better and better :D

not sure if this is any good, have no frame of reference ;)

well john ... u can always send me 2-3 cpu's of your "small" collection and i'll give ya some idea of what's a good result ...
for free of course ... ! ;)

dual super pi at 255
identical scores looks like ;)

well, I think I'm out of cpu headroom. Maybe a bit higher with better cooling, or if I dared get up in volts, but tbh, this thing runs so buttery smooth right here, I don't want to push more volts and raise heat. 255 can't run 2x instances of super pi 32m. However, 250 can ;)

What's that smell? I think Intel just sharted :woot:

:slobber:

looks great! so it isn't that stable on 2.8? can't wait to get one of my own :D

i can't get it stable at 2.8 no. I tried mem divider and think it's a cpu limitation+ I'm memtest clean at 257 on this redline 3500 :). Frankly, I haven't been so excited about a cpu/system in well over 2 years. My 3200+ A64 winchester came very close, but this is just something altogether different. At 250 the system just smokes. Makes my 4.1Ghz prescott seem like a Cyrix :O. If these cpus were a bit more affordable and AMD could make enough of these, Intel might actually break a sweat. As it sits now, AMD will get some glory, but Intel will put out enough FUD to offset the truely amazing experience this cpu provides. Paired with Redline it's an uber setup for sure. I've been gaming on it for about 12hrs now and I can say that using a single core cpu will be "felt" if not only in reality, but in my psychosis too hehe!

This chip is hot! I would like santa to visit my house aswell! Please send him my adress JNav89GT! :p: Well you think the prices are expensive? Then you haven't seen the norwegian websites! 25% VAT in Norway and in addition they pump up the price even more! :slapass:

Nothing for Intel to be worried about. price range with the EE dual core it about the same and your performance on air overclocked is lower, much lower. Intel should have released the dual core with 266FSB, the 200FSB numbers are weak, and then you got reviewers using super slack timing to skew results even more. I dont need to point out anandtech article where they used 4-4-4-x timing on the intel at stock and 2-2-2-5 on AMD at stock, there is no excuse for crap like that.

As we move deeper into multithreaded territory AMD will fall behind in sales (Intel is going cheap) and it will hurt single core sales soon.

It is game over when Napa/Yonah reach the market. Intel has nothing to worry about.

lol fugger
crap like that has been happening to AMD reviews for years. Like I said, Intel will still make the $$$
but compared to my 4.1Ghz Prescott on water, compared to this A64x2 at 2.75GHz on Water, there is no comparison.

Look what I got in my stocking! ;)

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Look what I got in my stocking! ;)

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How come some ppl are blessed by the hardware Gods ? Is there no justice!?? :stick:

I want some X2 too, when is it coming out?

^^^ Apparently mid to the end of June according to some stores here in the UK :)

in Australia slated for June 7ish

http://www.gogar.com/santaruiz2ava.jpg
:woot:

what's the highest you can get a 4400+ on air with a stock heatsink?

skipped air testing and went straight to water