[TEST] AMD Athlon II X2 250

[canna1988]

Hello guys today I would show you a little thing, but in first i want excuse me for my English

Today i will show you the result of the AMD Athlon II X2 250, with the GigaByte MA770T-UD3P that AMD gived us.

Cpu is very cheaper because in the EU zone cost about 65 euro... same thing for the Mainboard that in Italy is sold at 90 Euro..... but the result are great, and not only for daily use.. also for the Overclock

Technic information:



A pics of the Athlon II X2 250



For the test we used 2 different configuration, an Intel and AMD system.... we use also Air Cooling and LN2.

these are the platform

AMD



Intel




And Now start with the benchamark:

PCMARK VANTAGE



3DMARK VANTAGE



AQUAMARK



CRYSYS



Devil May Cry 4


FarCry 2


Sandra Aritemetica CPU


Sandra MultiCore


Sandra Latenza


Sandra test di banda delle memorie


For the temperature we can say that AMD work good, because are very lower in Default Conditions, same situation also in Overclock condition.... in this test are showed only the temperature got with default system, but later i will post also other.

Temoerature are not a wrond read from the sensor... i used for check it a external thermometer with a pt100 probe.

IDLE


FULL

[canna1988]

Now some Benchmark and Stability Test in Overclock conditions...

Heatsink: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus (Air Cooling)

Maximum clock stable is showed in these 2 screens

Idle OC


Full OC


Now the max stable bus with this mainboard...

i suggest to use F3 Version for the bios... because is very better than F2.

Max stable Bus


Now some Benchamrk

SuperPi 1MB


SuperPi 32 MB


PiFast


3DMARK 01


3DMARK 03


3DMARK 05


3DMARK 06


Next Week i will show you some results with LN2

[canna1988]

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[richierich]

Nice, thorough benchmarking. How many euros does the E8600 cost? And how high of an overclock can you hit with it?

[canna1988]

Nice, thorough benchmarking. How many euros does the E8600 cost? And how high of an overclock can you hit with it?

E8600 cost about 220 Euro but native has a clock speed of 3333 MHz..... in this test i downclocked it to 3000....

An Intel CPU with native clock speed at 3000 MHz is E8400 and its cost is about 120 euro.

With an E8400 or E8600 is possible get without problem the 4500 MHz benchable..... with 8600 is possible also get the 4800 benchable with air, and the 4500 rock solid for daily use... but only if you are lucky

[imamage]

Athlon II is good value for its price

[Tom128]

Nice post, though I must say I don't like graphs where a bar being twice the size of another bar != twice the value.

[canna1988]

yes in some test is so... but not so bad in general...... i like a lot this CPU..... and i think that amd can improve the quality if continue to work so

[metro.cl]

i don't like the E8600 downclocked you should have tried a E8400 then, people will be confused.

the price is pretty good but with a e8400, E8500 or E8600 you can easily reach 4GHz 24/7 and that is a pretty fast system.

[canna1988]

yes metro is true i copul use an E8400.... but i hadn t it

sorry

anyway i downclocked the CPU with the multiplier and not with bus... cpu was setted at 333 x 9..... like the E8400

[Nintendork]

Now you need some undervolting love to the 250.

[St Devious]

Here is my overclock using the same board and CPU with Crucial Kit D9JNM's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148262





and here is the max stable RAM on this board with Kingston HyperX 1800 MHz RAM

[drfedja]

You have a great RAM. I also have HyperX DDR3 1600, Regor CPU and same GA MoBO, but I couldn't push RAM frequency so high. Nice results. What is your highest stable LinX frequency with 64-bit linpack ?

[St Devious]

You have a great RAM. I also have HyperX DDR3 1600, Regor CPU and same GA MoBO, but I couldn't push RAM frequency so high. Nice results. What is your highest stable LinX frequency with 64-bit linpack ?

not a believer in linX stability (Much more in running the benchmarks and testing), but tested the 1880 MHz with LinX using all of available RAM, I think it got an error after 5 mins. But I;m sure it might be stable by backing on the freq a little bit.

[~CS~]

Very nice review

Am interested in that chip myself as well as mobo so its very helpful , thanks . Also sent you a pm , i have few questions regarding the board .

[St Devious]

Very nice review

Am interested in that chip myself as well as mobo so its very helpful , thanks . Also sent you a pm , i have few questions regarding the board .

I have posted a similar review on my site, might want to check it out.

[~CS~]

I have posted a similar review on my site, might want to check it out.

Thanks, thats exactly what i was looking for , BIOS shots !! , more and more it seems like a great board , i just need to find some more info on couple of other boards MSI 770 and new MSI 785G AM3 .


thanks

[Ad1os]

@ St Devious

Please Tell Me bios setting, used for that board ( part of memmory timing ) ?

U Memmory Running Great

[St Devious]

@ St Devious

Please Tell Me bios , used for that board ( Gigabyte 770 UD3P ) ?

U Memmory Running Great

F2 bro, check the review link for more details in the above post.

[Ad1os]

Ok Thanks Bro