Phenom II X2 550 turns into a Phenom II X4 B50 - Page 11

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Very cool!

I hope to have all but the video cards by next week, then I will to watch to see what comes out in November.

I figure worst case is...I buy 2 5750s and Cross fire them...then, wait til the end of the year for NewEgg to put stuff on sale and the card makers to want to sell a lot of stock after the Christmas holiday and get some big rebates and price breaks.

Can't wait to hear/see your results too. I am going to try and take pics with my camera to show my build when I'm done.

I'm interested...That would be cool if one of you got the 5850 or 5870...
I wanna see what these card can do...

But you have no choice! har har, not funny, i know

^What's your build?

Dude, thats.... awesome, i think... or it really sucks... or both, or something.

I have the Phenom II X2 as well, and haven't been able to activate the other two cores. I can set the EC firmware to hybrid without a problem, but when I set the ACC to auto, the system fails during POST and I have to use the clear CMOS jumper. Is my chip maybe one of those that can't be fully enabled?

Thats what happens why, but I think my NB and Vcore is under powered so I may need to fix that.....

I purchased the exact same hardware on Black Friday (Except I purchased NVIDIA, not ATI)

Unlocked like a charm, running at 3.42Ghz on stock cooling at 42c under load.
(Antec 300 case...a *** load of 200mm+ fans)



My only issue is that my 4gb of GSKILL DDR3 is coming up 3.25gb - Anyone know why?

OCZ for the past 2 years have been sending out WAY too many bad sticks. You may just be lucky.

I agree that OCZ is fast, affordable and stable RAM...when it works.

OCZ has the highest percentage of dead sticks when compared to other leading companies such as Kingston, Gskill, Adata...

FROM OVERCLOCKERS.UK:


"When I had previously had 4x1gb 800mhz sticks it had picked it up as 4gb ok. I then switched to 2x2gb 1066mhz and it said only 3.25 usable. I found that the problem had been that while I'd been using my old ram I'd gone into msconfig and gone to the boot tab and clicked advanced. In there I'd set the maximum available memory to 4096. This had worked fine with the old ram but with the new max available memory was showing as 0. To correct the problem I went back the general tab on msconfig and selected Normal startup and rebooted. When the system came back on all 4gb was usable again."


I will give this a shot when I get home...I'm always dicking around with msconfig to get faster startup

If you have 4Gb of ram using XP it will show 3.25Gb due to the OS not being able to allocate all 4GB.

Win 7 should see all 4GB....