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  2013-02-19 17:36:53
Reviewed by Randall L Swingle from Portland, OR US
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| The Good:
- Cost is great if you consider the graphics card is like a Radeon HD 6450 ($30-40 GPU) while the processor is a more power efficient Athlon II quad core ($80 CPU).
- Can easily play all games 2007 and before at high settings. For example Hellgate:London can easily run 40-50 frames per second at max settings and 90 frames if you disable advanced shading. As long as you disable filters and run at 720p or less, it'll run smoothly. Plays Leagues Of Legend at 35-40 frames at High Settings.
- Uses less than 150 watts combined at stock settings, making it useful for small cases, especially when you undervolt it because I saved 30 watts undervolting it down to 1.120 volts on the north bridge. |
| The Squirrelly:
- FM2 motherboards are already out and perform faster than FM1 CPUs like this one.
- You need fast RAM to get the most of out it due to the graphics card needing RAM speed that the rest of the system is using. Higher clock speeds also helps that, so prepare to overclock a little bit as well if you need more performance. DDR3 1866 is what you want, or close to it and you need two sticks of Ram no matter what. Dual Channel is required to have it be used at it's fastest.
- CPU doesn't have L3 cache, so don't try and play games that requires extreme amounts of filters like AA and such. The extra processing layers will cause your programs to come to a crawl. |
| Pro Tip:
I love this specific processor because it's the best of both roads. I got a FM1 System before this came out and it was $50 cheaper than the A8-3870k models. The difference is really small and the model can do a lot for very little. I recommend overclocking it to 3.0Ghz and undervolting it down to 1.2 since the stock is 1.45. It'll preform faster and use less energy than before, making it an instant win. |
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2012-04-01 16:53:43
Reviewed by Anonymous from Waterford, CT US
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| The Good:
Works great, paired this with a ASRock A75M-ITX motherboard in a Foxconn RM233+DSI-250P 250W Mini-ITX Tower Case. Plenty powerful. |
| The Squirrelly:
Runs a little warm. |
| Pro Tip:
Using a Scythe SCBSK-2100 BIG Shuriken 2 Rev. B CPU Cooler to keep it cool. Nice and quiet. |
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2010-08-25 01:04:34
Reviewed by 3rd Degree Byrne from Decatur, IL US
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| The Good:
Un freaking baleeeeevable. Unlock all four cores with the Asrock board mentioned in another review. You must update the bois first or you will have a headache. Have'nt done any benchmarking yet to see how fast these really are but so for so good. |
| The Squirrelly:
You must update your bios. Asrock has a utility to do it under your Windows platform. Real easy. |
| Pro Tip:
Great little chip at a great little price. |
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2010-08-23 01:01:08
Reviewed by Stardude82 from Chatsworth, CA US
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| The Good:
It is a Deneb, which means it's alot cooler and has fancier features than the Brisbane core. Cores and cache can be unlocked with the right motherboard and luck. You don't have to pay for a crappy heat sink. Mine is a good overclocker. |
| The Squirrelly:
If you don't get cores and cache to unlock you are stuck with a dog of a CPU. Considering the low end AMD (240 and 140) and Intel (E3300) CPUs within $10 (OEM) of the price if you want a cheap CPU to run at stock or just for overclocking. To get this to preforme at the level of even a bottom of the line Athlon II x2 215 requires a substantial amount of tweeking. (My CPU temps don't work, I'm not sure if it's the chip or the Mobo.) |
| Pro Tip:
I think unlocking success rate with this guy is probably close to 80%, but then you still aren't going to get much of an overclock past 2.8 Ghz either because of the chip voltage or your chipset. I got mine to overclock to 2.86 Ghz on stock voltage, however my chipset doesn't want to go higher. |
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2010-07-17 10:11:46
Reviewed by Anonymous Copycat from Memphis, TN US
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| The Good:
2 out of 2 unlocked to 4 core with 6Mb L3 cache.
Overclocked the first to 2.75 on stock cooling and voltage. |
| The Squirrelly:
Waiting on the Scythe MUGEN cooler to overclock the 2nd one.
Squirrelly being that, the cooler costs almost the same as the cpu. |
| Pro Tip:
Can't beat the price, less than 10 bucks per core. |
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2011-05-28 20:31:54
Reviewed by Anonymous from Zeeland, MI US
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| The Good:
Cheap dual core |
| The Squirrelly:
A little slow but very easy to overclock. 3.0 easy on a pretty basic heatsink/fan. |
| Pro Tip:
This is an AM3 chip not the old AM2 5200+ that were 2.6GHz for the 90nm Windsor or 2.7GHz for the 65nm Brisbane. Note that it's a 45nm and has more cache than the other two which is how it gets the same performance rating at lower frequency. It won't work on an AM2 board and most likely won't work on an AM2+ board unless it's a more expensive one, but then why buy this CPU? |
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2011-05-28 07:38:43
Reviewed by TechnoNinja from PACIFICA, CA US
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| The Good:
The CPU runs cooler than the old AM2 version because of the lower clock speed. You can unlock cores with this if you aren't a rookie, have the right motherboard and are lucky, I've unlocked 4 of the 5 I bought (3 went Quad, 1 went Tri). |
| The Squirrelly:
OEM, no 3 year warranty... |
| Pro Tip:
Don't listen to "Salt Lake", it's clearly states AM3 NOT AM2 and it's compatible with any AM3 motherboard. I hate rookies who complain when they have no idea what they are doing !!!!!!!! |
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2011-05-17 13:52:30
Reviewed by Anonymous from Salt Lake City, UT US
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| The Good:
Would have written a good review if it worked... |
| The Squirrelly:
Incompatible with most motherboard SuperBiiz please state the incompatibility of this CPU or remove it, thank you |
| Pro Tip:
most 5200+ CPU's are 2.6 Ghz.. odd that this one is not possibly AMD's fault though... |
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2013-03-18 15:32:15
Reviewed by Anonymous from Orlando, FL US
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| The Good:
Another great AMD product. AMD's slogan should be "Bang for your Buck!" Let's hope they stick to their word to continue the FM2 socket for some years to come. A single CPU upgrade would be nice for once in my PC ownership experience. |
| The Squirrelly:
The stock cooler looks like it came from an original Athalon 64 from 10 years ago. I know this 100W CPU is going to want more cooling than that in this FL heat. Maybe AMD does this to keep the CPU cost down? Can't dock them a point for an adequate cooler though. |
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Make sure you're running a 64-bit OS and fast dual-channel ram. That's 2 STICKS of DUAL-CHANNEL RAM!!! In case you missed that. CPU will benchmark extremely low in 32-bit OS as will 3D graphics without 2 sticks of dual-channel ram. |
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2012-11-20 08:03:15
Reviewed by DONALD STEIN from PORTERVILLE, CA US
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| The Good:
this is one good kick ass apu chip runs like a cheetha and is werth it too me first time with this apu it will run anything you can throw at it |
| The Squirrelly:
the stock cooler fan is loud under high loads is all mine runs 5.5 k rpms high loads |
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Nice Entry AM3 Processor 2009-10-06 06:52:32
Reviewed by Susan Miller from Danbury, WI US
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I put this in one of my HTPC'S replacing a 4600 X2. The system is noticably faster, and runs very cool. |
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2010-02-15 13:14:39
Reviewed by Anonymous from Union Gap, WA US
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| The Good:
runs about like a dual core Opteron |
| The Squirrelly:
runs about like a dual core opteron |
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2012-02-12 05:04:40
Reviewed by xrilander from Kingman, AZ US
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| The Good:
Speedy little processor. Noticeable improvement over my former 2.5 GHz CPU. Win 7 rating of 6.4 |
| The Squirrelly:
Mine was a GM model, revision C3. Make sure your motherboard bios are updated. |
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2011-08-08 10:13:19
Reviewed by Glayde from Kent, WA USA
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| The Good:
The Airlink101 AWLL6075 Wireless-N Mini USB Adapter needs to be installed using the installation disk and it works great. Much faster wireless than the built in wireless on my Acer Netbook. |
| The Squirrelly:
Nothing squirrelly here! |
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2011-02-22 21:47:51
Reviewed by Ron McIntyre from Pen Argyl, PA US
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| The Good:
Ordered Friday, got it Tuesday, even with a Holiday on Monday. Set up and connected to my home network in less than 5 minutes. Will come back after I've had it a while and leave feedback. |
| The Squirrelly:
None so far. |
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