Athlon X4 620 into.. what?

[Royalk]

If you remove the IHS of the CPU and post the die shot, all the doubts would be clear up.

[mAJORD]

indeed.. Do eeet.

Or someone send me one to delid. I'll pay for it it if I break it

[chinook]

my friend won't agree to that, i'm afraid, and i've never done an ihs removal before

[mAJORD]

it's OK. you don't need to. Benchmarks would prove the cache being unlocked.

[chinook]

some pics before the first series of tests


there it is.. AACYC AC 0923EPMW and The One Ring close to it..

[mAJORD]

hi Chinook.

Any chance you can make the pics bigger so we can see the full markings?

[chinook]

everest cache and memory


winrar


spi 1M


spi 32M


wprime


cinebench single thread


cinebench multi thread


3dmark vantage


coming up next are the same tests with L3 enabled

[chinook]

oh damn.. i think i accidentaly checked resize on them all
i'll edit them fast

[~CS~]

The pics are the size of an avatar , i think you resized them improperly by accident .

Edit : one minute late

[chinook]

there, pics fixed, sorry about the resize thing

[knopflerbruce]

AACYC => Deneb core.

[PoppaGeek]

[justapost]

Thank you for the preview chinook, is it possible for you to measure the power consumption with L3 enabled vs. disabled?

[chinook]

i have to find my dmm for that.. my sister has somehow "lost" it and it is nowhere to be found
other than that, how can i measure it?

[mAJORD]

Thanks Chinook!.. very interesting. Looking fwd to L3 comparison!

Can you do more benchmarks with and without L3 PLEASE?? (if you have them handy of course)

x264 encoding bench
Fritz chess
3dmark06

AND , why the 1600Mhz NB freq? are you sure that's not a result of BIOS not supporting the CPU? Might want to crank it back up to 1800 at least more likely 2000Mhz Like the Athlon II though and re-run benches.

The info I've had is that there will be an L3-less Propus mask, but perhaps these very early chips are indeed just L3 Disabled.

[chinook]

x264 encoding bench
Fritz chess
3dmark06

will do mate
i'm pretty sure the NB frequency is the right one and not some early bios product.

Might want to crank it back up to 1800 at least more likely 2000Mhz Like the Athlon II though and re-run benches.

Yeah, i will get it up to 1800-2000, should be fine with that, but a very interesting thing about the bios is that it was sent by biostar. the 1st bios that we used to unlock the L3 was quickly dropped off their site after our mail, and now there's only one variant that does not unlock the cache..
luckily we saved the "good" bios
All in all i tend to think there won't be 2 different lines of these chips - one from deneb with L3 disabled and a fresh new die without the L3.

[justapost]

i have to find my dmm for that.. my sister has somehow "lost" it and it is nowhere to be found
other than that, how can i measure it?

Hmm an normal power meter would do it.

[chinook]

That dmm is the only power measurement tool i have i have to buy a new one asap

[FlanK3r]

thank u very much, its valuable information !

And whats is OC potencial?

[chinook]

As promised, tests with L3

everest cache and memory


winrar


spi 1M


spi 32M


wprime


cinebench single&multi thread


3dmark vantage - there is a difference here at the GPU score because we forgot that last time we overclocked the 4670


occt


temp readings


We're planning for more tests in the weekend, because work is taking most of our time now.
x264, fritz chess and 3dmark 06 will be added, as well as overclocking potential and performance.

[St Devious]

Why does the CPU say AMD 2008 ?

[chinook]

Beats me, mate. I didn't make the chip

[El Gappo]

thats really good, the amount of arguing that went on over the l3 cache being laser cut off was all for nothing lmao. great news and cheap phenom

[Lightman]

Thank you chinook!

Quality info

[FlanK3r]

yes, thank u very much, can u try overcloking this chip?