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I recently came into a phenomx4, particularly the 9850. If you look at my rig you will yell at me, but I don't care. I NEED to use this 125w cpu in my little bitty 95w board. lol Anyway, on to probably stupid questions.
I recently moved from a dual core athlon to this cpu, and was wondering some things. First, the multiplier is unlocked on these black edition cpus (primary reason I wanted to use it) So I turn down the mult and voltage as far as it will go 8x @ .950v.. But this thing seems to keep the same heat no matter how much power is run through it. Is this the nature of this particular beast? Or Is there an issue w this one? It idles about 98F (havent run stress tests yet to determine stability of under/over clocks, just checking and making sure it actually works for now). Ill update here for stress temps once I run those, but thats later. My athlons (plural, used a few different ones) all seemed to run about 80F idle and ramped up to about 110F under full load (including GPU and memory, to trap as much heat inside the case as possible) I know that 4 cores will always run hotter than just 2, but a full 20 degrees at IDLE?! Im unsure if this is an issue or normal behavior?
Also, performance-wise what can i expect in comparison to the 5200 dual cores? If I run the 5200 at stock 2.6Ghz, what would the equivalent in number crunching capability be from the 9850? I think I should be able to underclock it a bit and still outperform the dual core, but where would be the equivalence?
What would be a good sink to use to put this thing down back where my dual core ran in temp? I'm looking bare minimum in cost and modification of case interior. I believe there is a close comparison sink in my rig specs down there. Except instead of just one fan, ive got 2, 1 push and 1 pull.
Further info, yes to fresh thermal compound (its not AS5, but I've found it more than adequate, considering when I clamp down my sink, much of the cpu heatspreader has enough compound remaining that I can still make out words on it. ) Yes the fans still work. No, nothing else has changed, not even wire routing. Yes it's all clean inside: living in Arizona, I have to clean the inside of my rig and fan blades once a month MINIMUM. Heatsink is tower style with 3 heattubes and copper base. Dimensions roughly 3.25" x 2.75" (guestimation, but pretty close), so not the biggest; but I got it for FREE, so I can't really complain.
Thanx for the input guys. You have been so helpful in the past, and I am looking forward to it now and in the future.
I recently moved from a dual core athlon to this cpu, and was wondering some things. First, the multiplier is unlocked on these black edition cpus (primary reason I wanted to use it) So I turn down the mult and voltage as far as it will go 8x @ .950v.. But this thing seems to keep the same heat no matter how much power is run through it. Is this the nature of this particular beast? Or Is there an issue w this one? It idles about 98F (havent run stress tests yet to determine stability of under/over clocks, just checking and making sure it actually works for now). Ill update here for stress temps once I run those, but thats later. My athlons (plural, used a few different ones) all seemed to run about 80F idle and ramped up to about 110F under full load (including GPU and memory, to trap as much heat inside the case as possible) I know that 4 cores will always run hotter than just 2, but a full 20 degrees at IDLE?! Im unsure if this is an issue or normal behavior?
Also, performance-wise what can i expect in comparison to the 5200 dual cores? If I run the 5200 at stock 2.6Ghz, what would the equivalent in number crunching capability be from the 9850? I think I should be able to underclock it a bit and still outperform the dual core, but where would be the equivalence?
What would be a good sink to use to put this thing down back where my dual core ran in temp? I'm looking bare minimum in cost and modification of case interior. I believe there is a close comparison sink in my rig specs down there. Except instead of just one fan, ive got 2, 1 push and 1 pull.
Further info, yes to fresh thermal compound (its not AS5, but I've found it more than adequate, considering when I clamp down my sink, much of the cpu heatspreader has enough compound remaining that I can still make out words on it. ) Yes the fans still work. No, nothing else has changed, not even wire routing. Yes it's all clean inside: living in Arizona, I have to clean the inside of my rig and fan blades once a month MINIMUM. Heatsink is tower style with 3 heattubes and copper base. Dimensions roughly 3.25" x 2.75" (guestimation, but pretty close), so not the biggest; but I got it for FREE, so I can't really complain.
Thanx for the input guys. You have been so helpful in the past, and I am looking forward to it now and in the future.
