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Offical AMD Athlon II X3 Owners Club

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Official AMD Athlon II X3 Owners Club

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Often cast as the unwanted middle child between the dual core and the quad core, the triple core Athlon II is quite the little processor. It is a great gaming processor and is excellent for muli-threaded tasks. Also with the right motherboard containing ACC the Athlon X3 might be able to be unlocked into a quad core.

CPU History
The Athlon II series is based on the AMD K10 architecture and derived from the Phenom II series. However, unlike its Phenom siblings, it does not contain any L3 Cache. The three core Rana is derived from the Propus quad core design, with one core disabled.

Rana (45 nm SOI with Immersion Lithography)

Three AMD K10 cores
Quad Core Propus die with one disabled
L1 cache: 64 kB + 64 kB (data + instructions) per core
L2 cache: 512 kB per core, full-speed
Memory controller: dual channel DDR2-1066 MHz (AM2+), dual channel DDR3-1333 (AM3) with unganging option
MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX bit, AMD-V
Socket AM3, HyperTransport with 2000 MHz
Power consumption (TDP): 45 Watt or 95 Watt
Released Oct 20, 2009 (C2 Stepping)
Clock rate: 2200â€"3000 MHz
Models: Athlon II X3 400e - 405e, 425 - 440

OWNERS LIST

jerryjhudson
dad2dj
Nun-Lee
terence52

I recomemnd you download CPUz to validate your CPU and CPUID HWMonitor to monitor your CPU temps.

Here is the spreadsheet. I will try and update this daily.

*This list was created with the post's in this thread, using only the people who have the CPU in their signature.
If you still use the Athlon II X3 but haven't it in your signature just post and i will add you to the list.
 
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Will be receiving one of these tomorrow morning to swap out my 4Ghz 550 BE. Going to be racking in some points at HWBOT.ORG.

Be fun to get a bunch of people here to share there experiences and results with one of the 2 new X3 Athlon chips. Mine is the 435. Should be fun tomorrow after its lapped
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Anyone else considering?
 
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Righto..

Update #1

Just put into the system.

If you see below.. i'm not going to bother lapping i don't think.

Idle 16.C @ stock clocks and volts.



NOTE: CPU-Z says its a 535.. maybe they haven't updated there database.

One review i saw yest was commenting on how low the temps were at load.

I ran OCCT for 10 mins only (usually gives you an indication of what the top end load temps are.. 19.C

19.C on load! :O :O

I think i'm in for some fun OC'ing!

EDIT: Left it a bit, and it's actually 14.C idle temps
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Originally Posted by RawZ
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Righto..

Update #1

Just put into the system.

If you see below.. i'm not going to bother lapping i don't think.

Idle 16.C @ stock clocks and volts.



NOTE: CPU-Z says its a 535.. maybe they haven't updated there database.

One review i saw yest was commenting on how low the temps were at load.

I ran OCCT for 10 mins only (usually gives you an indication of what the top end load temps are.. 19.C

19.C on load! :O :O

I think i'm in for some fun OC'ing!

EDIT: Left it a bit, and it's actually 14.C idle temps
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Cool and Quiet is off I assume? I've been looking into getting an Athlon II. Those temps seem ridiculously low...are they your cores and not the actual CPU? And what cooler are you using?
 
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Update #3

Max overclocking!

Managed to find (no matter what voltage/NB multi combo etc) the max OC i can boot into W7 is 3770Mhz..



Again, only 18.C idle
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Sadly it's not stable.

I can then use the AOD app to OC to 3.86Ghz within W7 from the unstable 3.77Ghz i booted in at.. might be good for some SPI & PIFast runs later on.

I'll quickly find the max stable OC next, and later see what my chip can do on stock volts overclocking
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Good write up! I have the 620 and after installing XP because windows 7 didn't like my 1tb drive, my temps with teh zalman cooler was 84F in a room that the temp was maybe 75F ish and my case was completely open untill I am happy with everything.
 
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Good write up! I have the 620 and after installing XP because windows 7 didn't like my 1tb drive, my temps with teh zalman cooler was 84F in a room that the temp was maybe 75F ish and my case was completely open untill I am happy with everything.

Weird, W7 Ultimate x64 was fine with my 1TB Western Digitial Black. Did you make a seperate partition for the OS, or just leave it 'open'?
 
#23 ·
Is it me or do AMD's CPUs seem to have trouble going over 4GHz on air/water?
Could it be the C2 stepping?
 
#24 ·
No idea if its C2, but i think 4Ghz (in the majority) is the barrier for Ph. II chips i think on air or WC'ing. I hit 4Ghz stable with my 550 BE, and could boot in @ 4.15Ghz, and then later 4.25Ghz to bench on a stripped OS.

I also had a 955 BE and got 3.9Ghz stable, and a 720 BE which was 3.8Ghz stable. All on air.
 
#25 ·
with my low wattage x3 anything over 1.475 doesn't really help just causes instability and thats with similar temps. try giving it a go with 1.45ish volts and see where you get, looking great so far. also high cpu/nb bolts
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where did you get it from if you don't mind me asking? and any unlocked cache?