Calisto Phenom II 550 just hit the shelves!

[WhiteFireDragon]

AMD's Phenom II x2 550 just hit the shelves here at newegg! this is much sooner than i expected. if anyone has a chance to test out these chips, please post your results here! i'm eager to see how these do against core2 duo

[Damian^]

Just ordered one 10 minutes ago.
I'll let you know how it goes.

They seem to fair well against the E8500 according to most reviews out. It's also gives the 720 plenty of competition which is amazing for the price it can be had ($115).

[informal]

Just ordered one 10 minutes ago.
I'll let you know how it goes.

They seem to fair well against the E8500 according to most reviews out. It's also gives the 720 plenty of competition which is amazing for the price it can be had ($115).

Don't forget there are solid chances you can unlock extra cores (provided you have ACC supporting board)

[gOtVoltage]

Don't forget there are solid chances you can unlock extra cores (provided you have ACC supporting board)

Im watching a Movie then ill hit up the Egg. I have to try one with this UD4P

[WhiteFireDragon]

lol price already dropped on this by $5 in a few hours. just wait a week or two for price to come to equilibrium

[richierich]

lol price already dropped on this by $5 in a few hours. just wait a week or two for price to come to equilibrium

then all the unlockable chips will be gone!! j/p we don't even know for sure yet. I want to get one to try lol.

[gOtVoltage]

then all the unlockable chips will be gone!! j/p we don't even know for sure yet. I want to get one to try lol.

Mines on the Way ..I saved Five bucks too I cant wait no longer ,

Was hoping for the free shipping ,, California and Arnold Boy are taking everything lol.

[richierich]

Yeah but Newegg knows there are early adopters of technology and so they know people will pay more when stuff is released. Same thing happened with the 720. No free shipping for a week and price was jacked a bit.

[zorz]

Phenom II X2 550 is unlockableeither on the chiper boards as well as expensive mobo.
I'll post model names:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 rev 2.0
Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 (jes, nForce ulocking PhII well as SB750 )
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P (AM3 board with DDR3 DIMM Slots)

All of those 3 boards are cheap and You can unlock your PhII X3 or PhII X2...

[GeorgeStorm]

Can all gigabyte boards?
I know the DDR2 boards can, I presume the UD4/UD5 AM3 can also?

[C-BuZz]

Can all gigabyte boards?
I know the DDR2 boards can, I presume the UD4/UD5 AM3 can also?

UD5 can.



2 unstable cores

C-BuZz

[vandiesel]

UD5 can.



2 unstable cores

C-BuZz

unstable at stock? what did you use to test?

cheers

[marten_larsson]

Well, what did you expect? The Phenom II X2 to be a fully functional 955BE with great OC? I would be greatful if even one core was unlockable at upped Vcore and stock speed. That way you got a X3 for the price of a X2 (and since there is no 3,1GHz X3 I would have the fastest "stock" X3 :P).

[Chrono Detector]

Here is a good review from Guru3D:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/athlon...50-be-review/1

Quite impressive, performs slightly better or the same as the E8400. Intel needs to lower their prices for their E8400.

[mrkram]

ive been out of the game for a while... still rockin a socket 939 opty 165 lanparty ultra-d combo... whats a good mobo to team this with?

[C-BuZz]

unstable at stock? what did you use to test?

cheers

It fails Orthos instantly at any speed or volts. But the weird thing is it will scale to 4ghz & still boot into Windows no problem

I've narrowed it down to core 1 & 2 that are unstable using affinity.

C-BuZz

[GeorgeStorm]

So you sure its the cores that are making it fail
And not mem/NB etc?
Because it seems odd that they would fail orthos at stock whatever, but be able to get into windows at 4G
Especially if its XP, as the XP startup is really tough.

[C-BuZz]

So you sure its the cores that are making it fail
And not mem/NB etc?
Because it seems odd that they would fail orthos at stock whatever, but be able to get into windows at 4G
Especially if its XP, as the XP startup is really tough.

Using Windows 7. Pretty sure it's the cores that are failing. They fail Orthos at any speed, even underclocked.

Definately not the ram as I'm only changing multi's.

I still don't understand how it can hit 4Ghz & boot into Windows, yet can't Orthos underclocked & overvolted..

C-BuZz

[cdawall]

pay day isn't until friday damn they will be sold out by then

[daytripper67mi]

ordered mine @4:45am woot ,hope for friday delivery but betting on monday.

[Smartidiot89]

I have had mine since yesterday, and they've been in stock in sweden since monday

This is just another Phenom II thou, I want the Athlon II to play with For some reason that product won't hit the shelves till next week

Anyways, today i've got some stuff to do, then make a clean partition for writing my first serious review on these 2 CPUs - I am also eager to break the 4GHz barrier on air haha!

[Baam]

Athlon II is at TigerDirect.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...8&Sku=A79-0250

[richierich]

The 250 is still only $10 cheaper than the 550 @ TigerDirect. I'd go with the 550, especially with the Bing cashback of 8.2% and no tax for me!

[richierich]

Thanks Baam for Tigerdirect. I just placed an order for a 550.

[i found nemo]

doesn't the 250 athlon 2 have 1mb/cpu? can those unlock to 4 core?