AMD realy crazy thing happened

I only joined couple of days ago and from what i can see big majority of u people are using amd procs. I dont like intel but I have their proc e8400 only because amd didnt have anything better at the time My old comp has burton 2500+ that worked on 1800Mhz, but when i changed cooler it mysteriously overclocked to 1900Mhz, in bios and win, cpuz + other programs now reads burton 2600+ I men WTF. I used it without any problem for about a year before i sold it. Does anyone have any idea??

E8400 can be run at 4ghz-4.6ghz with E0 and no amd cpu can match it in gaming

an older E8400 runs 3.8ghz with no problems and only the newest amd cpu's can match it!

I dont like intel

i drive GM but toyata makes good cars! i bought my mom a coralla
again if you got bikes you need that can of oil with your harley -
snowmobiles - yamaha is best - i can not tell you how many boken down artic cats you see but peeps lov them! (better to be called a yamadog then to have to walk you kids 50 miles in 20 below)

if you drive a toyata stick with intel or you got a jap bike!

of you got a chrysler mini ban, dodge truck or new american branded motor bike design for vibration not speed then amd is right up your alley!

my wife on third mini ban (chrysler) each one has had more problems then all the GM cars i have owned in 20 years

Thats odd, nothing wrong with a free upgrade , but it could be indicative of bios issues , id definitely keep an eye out for any instabilities. If there are none that pop up id say just go with it.
It wouldnt hurt to stress test things a bit and see if anything gets exposed. get some software to monitor your psu voltages , i wouldnt reccomend tweaking the bios without some reading , in order to test oc settings to see if the chip itself could be failing.
keep in mind that the chip is old and has passed a bit of current through it , and over time it does cause migration of circuit metals.

920 i7 can be clocked to 4.3ghz on air - this is underclocked

x3 720 is near its maximum clock this is factory overclocked


same old game - no different then the fx-60 from may of 05 that barely made 3ghz - same cpu repackaged over and over 6000+ 6400+

still could not pass 3.2ghz

factory settings are nothing and real life and real pc's are everything!

Sounds like a funky BIOS to me. It's not likely a "problem." It's possible that the BIOS version in use didn't completely support that chip too.

Absolutely. It happens far too often, and it's happening closer and closer to the OP. Soon we'll have a situation where the OP itself will be off-topic.

dragonsprayer, do you realise that we're talking about a Barton here, not a competitor to the E8400? You gonna start saying people shouldn't have owned Durons because i7 is faster? Please take yourself and your giant advertisement of a sig out of people's threads so that they can get the answers they're after.

^I will explain why I gave YOU a thumbs down. Because you are still off topic.

Why do you insist on spewing the same crap consitently? You just wasted more space without adding ANYTHING to the OP.

If I was a admin I would bring down the BAN hammer on you and a few others here.

They have nothing to contribute but still have a need for attention.

OP - I run my Barton at 2.0 for so long I forgot what it was. The BIOS always reported "Unknown AMD proc". While it was on my desk I ran at 2.2. When I moved that box to server status I usually drop them back to stock but in this case I didn't want to crack the TIM so I just dropped it to 2.0. When I u/g'd from the Opty I got a new tube of AS5 and said what the heck because the Opty is the front line server now anyway. Low and Behold, a Barton 2500+ that's been running at least 2.0 for 5 years+.