Athlon x2 5000+ (AMD K8 with 45nm?)

[daellum67]

I bought two chips from Mwave for $50 each shipped. (OEM tray models). 0936CPMW stepping, 0109 and 0188 were the last 4 on third line.

Both unlocked and ran stable stock, OC'd to 3.3, but best performance with these chips was with ~3.0Ghz on the core because ram clocks massively suffer after that point. I don't think I'm near the limit of the cores though but the x11 multi is crippling everything.

The IMC/NB is very weak on these, they run stock 1.6ghz at the same volts my 940 needs for 2.6Ghz (1.4V is the stock cpu nb-vid on my 5000+'s, the 940's was much lower and I'm overvolting it to 1.4v), and like I said can't clock ram at all once the chip starts to run semi-quick. (could be my board and it's dislike of 300 and greater HT ref clocks, but it will go higher with my full-fledged denebs so I doubt it).

I have a 9550 B3 agena that runs better than these chips, if that helps to put it into perspective. Doesn't clock as high, but will run all day at 3.0 with ram at 1066 and NB at 2.4ghz. These won't.

FYI i'm testing these in a DFI 790FXB-M2RSH, under a TRUE black with 2 fans, and they're driving 4x2GB of patriot viper 1066 DDR2. Vista Ultimate X64. The weak IMC is probably compounded by running 4 dimm's, but I'm sure any chip in the PII/AII line wouldn't have as bad of IMC/NB problems.