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It was time to upgrade a dual core system I built last year. It already had 16Gb of DDR2 and a Asus HD7770 graphics card w/2Gb DDR5. The only thing left to do was was add a faster processor with a few more cores and breath more life into the old girl. The processor was a great price and it came pretty fast. Popped it in and it's like a brand new animal! I'm very happy with its performance and I'm sure it's more then adiquick to hold my collage age daughter.
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Motherboard spec. said it could handle 125 watts, error message "over 95 watts" and shut down, return in process.
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I have this CPU as a final upgrade to my old system. I used to have an Athlon 64 x2 5200+, then upgraded to a Phenom x4 9850 BE, and now the Phenom ii x4 940 BE. I could get a hexacore phenom to upgrade further, but they are not cost effective. The rest of my system is an ASRock A780 Full Displayport Motherboard, 8GB (4x2GB) Kingston DDR2@ 800MHz, and an EVGA GeForce GTX 1050ti SC. I have the Phenom ii x4 940 Overclocked to 3.3GHz from 3.0GHz because that's all my CPU cooler, a CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 can handle. It gets up to 61*C on a full load and AMD states that 62*C is the max Temp for the CPU. However I have got it to run stable at 3.7GHz but it gets too hot with my current cooler to run it at that speed on full load. The combo of the AMD Phenom ii x4 940 and GTX 1050ti is great, I have had only one game where the CPU bottlenecked the GPU (Ashes of Singularity), but all other games I have run there is no bottleneck (this includes, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Witcher 3, Yooka-Laylee, Rocket League, Firewatch, Hearthstone, No Mans Sky, Fallout 4). All games (except A.O.S.) run at 1080p at max settings at 42FPS or better, and Near Max settings at 54+FPS. High Settings or lower is 60+FPS all day. All games mentioned running on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. The Phenom is showing its age, but as a gaming rig I think I can squeeze a few more years out of it, and as an everyday internet browsing/office applications I bet I could get another 10 years out of it, especially running Linux.Read full review
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I bought this to replace an AMD Phenom X3 8750. Still using an AM2+ platform motherboard, this Phenom II X4 940BE is noticably faster! Runs games smoother, opens programs quicker, and is running at 3.5GHz overclocking from the stock 3.0GHz stably simply by increasing the multiplier. I didn't have to do any voltage changes or any other BIOS modifications for it to run w/o errors. Now, compared to the most recent AM3 quad core Phenom II's, or any new Intel quad core, this chip does not run as fast. But, for my budget minded performance enthusiasm, it is just fine, thank you.
Afew peculiarities with this combination. The 940 replaced a 6000+ on one of the Photoshop machines. With the 5502 BIOS update in place the chip was installed and the machine rebooted. No problems, except that only two cores show. Msconfig only shows two cores available. Others have stated that a clean reinstall of Windows XP is required to recognize the four cores. I can confirm this. Remember to flash the BIOS BEFORE installing the 940, and reset the BIOS before the 1st power up. No overclocking so far but the best that can be obtained with air cooling is a lousy 10% anyway. Prime95 runs the temps up to 70C max with the big Zalman cooler running full fan. Idle temps are 47-50C. This using ASUS Probe II. Acceptable. This might settle down a bit after the Arctic Silver reaches its stable configuration. On my M2N32-SLI at least, all drives (IDE or SATA) except the boot drive (SATA) must be disconnected. If not, a 0x0000007B error results - BSOD. Your mileage might vary. This has ALWAYS been the case on this machine. It's written in white ink on the outside of the case in the event someone (me) forgets. I now have four wonderful cores. Boot times are not improved much (I can still make coffee before the machine is finished booting), but apps run much quicker, especially the Photoshop stuff. The reinstall of CS4 was much improved over the 6000+. -the Recycled ScientistRead full review
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