AMD 6400 or 5000

[engineer333]

Hey, I am tying to upgrade my CPU and memory in my system to try and get the most out of it since prices have gone down. I built it about a year ago and its my first. I think I can say that I feel unfortunate to have bought an AM2 socket mobo, but I want to use it to the max. I have never OC'd my CPU before and I need help deciding what would be best to buy, and also, the easiest and safest way to OC it. I have been looking into the BE of the 6400 and the 5000, but Newegg just deactivated the 6400 BE and I can only find that on Tiger Direct now. Or would it be better to just get the regular 6400? Any help would be much appreciated. I am just itching to upgrade and need to buy something.

 

[iluvgillgill]

i heard 5000+ can overclock to 6400+ speed with a good heatsink.and 6400+ cant overclock much further then what it come with.so save money on the CPU and get a good heatsink to achieve the same result.

 

[iluvgillgill]

but 1 more thing i like to stress!amd is very hard to achieve a good OC.Intel is far easier and virtually is fool proof is you you looking at mild overclock thats more than enough for every purpose(nothing extreme)

 

[Dunkel]

vote....5000 black edition

 

[engineer333]

Thanks guys, are there easy steps to follow for my beginner OCing experience?

 

[iluvgillgill]

erm is there an AMD athlon x2 one on here?but im sure you can find it on the internet somewhere

 

[Evilonigiri]

OCing an AMD is easy. Increase the FSB, that's about it. You may need to lower the HT and increase vcore, but that's easy too.

 

[iluvgillgill]

=.=" if its easy as you said then i guess this thread wont be here then.and plsu many other thread with AMD overclock issues!!!get a life AMD!!!

 

[Evilonigiri]

It's easier than Intel, that's for sure.

 

[iluvgillgill]

hum ok.lets see if the poster will need to post again with the title "my AMD cant overclock to 2.8G"

 

[Evilonigiri]

Perhaps you misunderstood. By easier to OC, I meant AMD has less complicated procedures in order to OC. Intel can OC much, much higher, but the process of OCing is more advance.

 

[engineer333]

Just so you know, i decided to go with the 6400 being that it is so cheap now. this way if i have any difficulty, at least it is up there already. I read some good stuff about people getting it up to 3.4/3.5 stable, i dont think that can happen with the 5000.

 

[iluvgillgill]

a mild overclock(that upto 3Ghz on most Core 2) on an intel hardly need to change anything part from the FSB.

 

[engineer333]

a mild overclock(that upto 3Ghz on most Core 2) on an intel hardly need to change anything part from the FSB.

right, but i am just trying to upgrade my AM2 socket without buying a whole new machine until i save up some cash. thanks, i know amd and intel are different.

 

[iluvgillgill]

alright that fine then just go ahead with your plan.let us know how you go.need any help this forum is on 24hr and me!lol

 

[Evilonigiri]

Well, it's fine then, what's important is what you want.

 

[EXT64]

The 6400+ has the full cache, I believe, so it will give you a little more performance the the 5000+ at the same clock.

 

[engineer333]

ok, sounds good. does anyone know what happened here:

i was running prime95 just to test my system now before messing with it. i had my Nvidia monitor up to watch temps and stuff. the cpu temp disappeared off of it, so i closed it and tried to open it back up, then it told me my "system does not have BIOS support to launch this program". what happened? do i need to let it finish? it says it wont finish until May 24th or something like that. any help would be appreciated.