Athlon II X4 620 + Biostar MCP6P M2+

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#1 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:21 am

As usual, Fry's is awesome.
Got the combo for $70 - 10 = $60 AR, thats 58% off from Newegg prices. Also purchased that day was the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 for $8 ^^.

http://www.mylilsite.net/images/propus-1/

FAIL sticker placement:
http://www.mylilsite.net/images/propus-1/sdHSTop1.jpg

Haha I think the motherboard is funny looking. It's a micro ATX but in the same shape ratio of a full ATX board. Resultantly it looks like a shrunk full ATX rather than a micro ATX.

The amount of controls in the BIOS is awesome, rivals my old ASUS flagship and has all 50 (exaggerated) RAM timing controls. The board is annoying though, I OCed the X4 620 to 3GHz and the board's coils will whine/screech/squeal when I put the CPU under load. Ugh.

I expected more from the CPU, like to be closer to the Phenom II, but whatever.

2005 · #2 Post by **2005** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:43 pm

For $60 though you can't beat it...

#3 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:34 am

Well potentially if you get a Phenom II X2 and successfully unlock it to a stable X4, that can beat this deal. But yeah, I bought it because you can't beat it.

I've been having some stability troubles with it recently, like finding it created like 10 minidump files (each the result of a bluescreen) in a day, AT STOCK. Strangely once I left the onboard ethernet enabled it seems to be running ok.. I had the onboard disabled because its only 10/100 and I stuck in a gigabit card.

lol also, this is the first time I've ever overclocked a system that had integrated video. Understandably, OCing the "FSB" overclocked the 6150SE to utter instability and had to stick in a 7200GS for now. Both GPUs suck, I know.