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Athlon II X2 240 vs Pentium E5200 overclocking

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ex_soldier1911   08-07-2009 at 08:26:05 PM

Since the Athlon is new I can't find much comparing these where over clocking is concerned. I plan to overclock as much as I can using a $30 air cooler. I'm guessing the E5200 will win here. What do you guys think?

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belial2k   08-07-2009 at 08:42:04 PM
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could you squeeze the PII x2 550 and and am3 mb into your budget? If not, I would go with the 5200.

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aoster87   08-07-2009 at 08:53:44 PM
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Toms has an overclocking article involving the E5200, and it is a champ. It has the best value and runs smoothly pushed far past its stock speed.

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ex_soldier1911   08-07-2009 at 10:27:18 PM
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I'm trying to stay away from the x2 550 because the e5200 with a cooler is still cheaper than the 550, so for the price of the 550 I can have allot more power. I don't want DDR3 since it is so expensive right now.

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sanchz   08-08-2009 at 03:03:06 AM
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You can run the 550 with DDR2 od DDR3.
The 550 has unlocked multiplier (easy overclock).
The 550 has 6mb of L3 Cache and its stock performance is higher then the 5200, being on par with the E7400.
And then, for just a little more than the 550 you can get a Phenom II triple core...
Out of the 250 and E5200, I think the 5200 wins. But I'd really consider the other options...

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stardude82   08-08-2009 at 02:52:52 PM
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I'd forget the cooling and spend the 25 bucks on a E6300. 3.5ghz on stock, no problem. The thing really wants run at a 1333 bus speed. AMD's stock speeds are still on the warm side and their 45 nm process isn't quite up to Intel's yet.

The E5200 is really hit or miss, there are many bad samples out there.

I'd be more worried about my MB/RAM than my CPU holding out if you aren't able to spend money. Though a CPU with unlocked multipliers would help. If you are going to game, it might be worth it to spend money on the vid card.

The 550 can only compete with the E7400? With those specs it should compete with the E8600!

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ex_soldier1911   08-09-2009 at 08:19:29 PM
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I found an article that compares the AMD Athlon II X2 250 to the E5200: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/c [...] u-review/1
Seems the E5200 outperforms the 250, which means it should definitely outperform the 240. This build is mainly for HTPC use, mostly Netflix and Hulu. Will do some occasional gaming, perhaps Fallout 3. Going to pair it up with a Radeon HD 4670 512MB which should be enough to handle the 1280x720 resolution of my projector. I really don't need to over clock, but it seems like such a waste of power that I can tap into with proper cooling.


Message edited by ex_soldier1911 on 08-09-2009 at 08:26:02 PM
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aoster87   08-10-2009 at 01:41:38 AM
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For HTPC I would definately suggest the E5200. If you are going to do only some light gaming I think that maybe you wouldn't have to OC the cpu much if at all. Keep it at stock speed and you will have a little bit of power savings.

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