If you are visually impaired and are having difficulty navigating this site, please call our Customer Support line via our toll free number (800) 390-1119.

Newegg.com - A great place to buy computers, computer parts, electronics, software, accessories, and DVDs online. With great prices, fast shipping, and top-rated customer service - once you know, you Newegg.

If you are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh" button). Please email us if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still see this message.

Newegg.com - Computers, Computer Parts and Electronics

My Account

MyNeweggReviewsHelp & Info  
topNavRowBottom  
AMD ADA4600BVBOX Processors - Desktops
Customer Reviews for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Manchester 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual-Core Processor - Retail
Newegg.com's Product Ratings and Reviews feature enables Newegg.com customers to help each other make informed buying decisions. Learn More

Currently Unavailable

Review Summary (100 Reviews): Rating + 5
OverallLast 2 WeeksLast 6 Months
Excellent Rating + 5 84ReviewsExcellent
newegg
84%
Good Rating + 4 13ReviewsGood
newegg
13%
Average Rating + 3 2ReviewsAverage
newegg
2%
Poor Rating + 2 0Reviews
0%
Very Poor Rating + 1 1ReviewsVery Poor
newegg
1%
Filter Results     apply changes
     
Reviewer Product Review
N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2007 11:28:58 AM

Rating + 5 GREAT


Pros: This thing is nice. Running @ 2.5 (had to drop multiplyer to run my gskill @ 500mhz) No problems with multitasking very stable @2.5

Cons: Sometimes games are a little choppy now but setting the affinity works great. Not really happy with the stock cooler but oh well what can youdo but buy another one. Not that impressed with its performance over my 3700 @ 2.5 but cannot really complain too much because this proc feels very solid and stable(but thats AMD for you)

Other Thoughts: Running on my epox nforce4 ultra board with 2 gigs of Gskill(please get more gskill pc4000 newegg)my x850xt is my bottleneck get the ati utility that manages the processing because some games will be a little choppy (NEW EGG = AWESOME)

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2007 7:21:46 AM

Rating + 5 A Screamer


Pros: This processor rocks. I upgraded from an Athlon 64 3000+/motherboard. This processor shows me what my BFG 7900GS PCI-E video card can do. Every game I throw at it runs smooth as silk. Gaming is such a pleasure now. Call of Duty 2 runs like a dream with everything max'd, same with Oblivion. DVD Shrink performance is superb.

Cons: The only con I can think of is that I didn't upgrade to this processor sooner.

Other Thoughts: Buy this now, while still available as socket 939 systems are a dying breed these days.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/4/2007 10:41:46 PM

Rating + 5 Dual Core Goodness


Pros: Gotta love dual core chips. Made everything faster, obviously. Easy to install.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: no freebies!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

mike
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/31/2006 11:49:46 AM

Rating + 5 Good processor.


Pros: Good processor.

Cons: None. Went from a 3000+ to this, havent really noticed a change but then again i dont do many multi threaded apps. I gained about 20 fos in WoW though.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Cher
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/19/2006 10:43:42 AM

Rating + 5 Never a problem with AMD


Pros: Put chip in, make sure heat synch is on correctly, no problems!!!

Cons: If above isn't done correctly, you just lost a lot of money in probably the shortest amount of time!!!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/6/2006 7:34:36 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Decent speed and overclocks well without much increase in heat. Stock fan and heatsink are more than sufficient. For me, even under conditions of heavy gaming, it only reaches around 45 degrees C.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Lower price than the 4800+ but with about the same performance, also overclocks to greater speeds than the 4800+ is capable of when overclocked. Be sure to download the latest drivers and the amd dual core optimizer if you're planning on gaming.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Tech, no.
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/5/2006 7:07:28 AM

Rating + 5 Tormenter


Pros: Torment, that graph can be displayed either as a single combined or double graph per cpu. It's just a view setting. Open Task Manager, View, CPU history and then select "one graph, all cpu" or "one graph both cpu."

Cons: Windows XP, any flavor, recognizes Dual Cores on one physical processor.

Other Thoughts: Glad to spread the knowledge, happy holidays!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/4/2006 12:52:14 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: Godsown Drunk, this processor won't work with the DFI Lanparty UT because that mobo is an AM2 socket and this processor is a 939, but it will with the other one.

Cons: Don't have it, just responding to somebody else.

0 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

fox64
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/4/2006 5:18:20 AM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: nice.. upgraded from a 1.7 ghz processor to this, and OC'd to 2.7. It shattered my mind. havn't been able to get above 40c yet.

Cons: didn't have any liquid silver when I installed my heatsink so I don't feel 100% optimized

Other Thoughts: With all my new gear it took 10 minutes to install XP. My dad looked on in amazement!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Godsown Drunk
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
12/2/2006 7:21:08 AM

Rating + 5 Mobo compatibility


Pros: Anyone know if this will run in the DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D???

Cons: Upgrading my pc and looking at that mobo but want to keep this processor

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

racermd
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/1/2006 7:45:02 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome little chip


Pros: The price/performance ratio is good now. I paid nearly 1k for this almost a year ago. It's fast, cool, and able to keep up with everything I throw at it.

Cons: The only bad thing I can say is that I can't unlock the multiplier.

Other Thoughts: If you've still got an early s939/DDR rig and want to upgrade, any of the Athlon X2 CPUs will be a breath of fresh air until the next big CPU development forces a mobo upgrade. The difference between single- and dual-core is simply astounding. You won't regret it.

If you're building new (or upgrading from an older socket), skip this and get the sAM2/DDR2 versions.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Tormentor5738
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/1/2006 7:00:54 PM

Rating + 4 Good cpu to hold you over for a bit.


Pros: I don't notice much of a difference in gaming from my 3700+, but in media apps such as:burning dvds, virus scans, installing products, it has been much much quicker. Prices are dropping as newegg is trying to rid their stock of socket 939 for the new socket types, So if you don't feel like upgrading for just a bit longer, grab one of these before they are all gone.

Cons: Was pretty hard to install. I had to reformat because my computer would only recognize one core.

Other Thoughts: Called microsoft and they said that both cores are being recognized and in the performance graph of task manager is was combining them. That is garbage. When you reformat, it will ask you to press F6 to install raid drivers, press F5 instead. Then select multicore cpu. If there are not two graphs in the perfomance windows task manager, it is only using one of them, even if it recognizes both.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/1/2006 5:52:58 AM

Rating + 5 Smoooootttthhhhhhhh


Pros: This is such a nice processor. I put this in a new build, and the results were staggering. I reinstalled WoW and it took 30 minutes, WHILE playing CS 1.6 (kept at max of 60.0 fps for smoothness), and WHILE compressing a 2 gig video into RAR file. All of this with not getting processor usage above 15% , accept for the occasional jump, but it maintained about 10%. At idle temperature, I'm running about 29-30 degrees Celsius, and at full load (pretty much what I was doing before with WoW, CS, and the RAR) it was a maximum of 36 degrees Celsius. The Fan is wonderful, it works well with a case with good ventilation. The heatsink is a work of art, and keeps the temp down very well. I'm running it in a Thermaltake Tsunami, which has 2 120mm fans and a 90(maybe 80?) so it's got really good ventilation, which is why the temp is so low. I woke up this morning to find idle temps at 28 degrees Celsius, which is phenomenal (mind you it was in a cold house all night, but CONTINUED IN CONS

Cons: CONTINUED FROM PROS (lol) but it was working all night installing WoW updates and such, so it good to see something that costs a fair amount, do so much more than you'd expect.

This Processor has NO CONS. IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!

Other Thoughts: Buy it!! NOW!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Closet Geek
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/30/2006 2:52:39 PM

Rating + 5 To JS, AMD Driver


Pros: Still love this processor. JS, go to their website and it's the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer.

Cons: Got the Dual-Core Optimizer and I've got no issues with any of my games. BF2, NWN, COD, HL1, MOH, Jedi Outcast.

Other Thoughts: Dual-Core Optimizer, search for it on their site or G@@g1e it.

Hope that helps

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Murdoc (A-Team)
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/29/2006 8:17:39 PM

Rating + 5 Buy it!!!


Pros: I upgraded from a 3200+ 2.0 ghz to this. It rocks!! All of my FPS went up especially in Quake 4(Multi threaded). I also love the ability to run a virus scan and play a game at the same time. Multitasking at it's best, I love it !!!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Installed very easley. Just plugged it in and windows did the rest.

Core System Specs:
AMD X2 4600 2.4
MSI K8N Neo 4
BFG 7800gt OC'ed w/ Zaleman HSF
1Gb of OCZ DDR RAM 2-3-3-6
Creative Labs X-Fi Extreme Music
Western Digital Caviar HDD's
Win XP Pro

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Joe S.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
11/28/2006 8:10:02 PM

Rating + 4 Excellent Value/Upgrade Path


Pros: I decided to go with this CPU in the socket 939 package over the Intel e6600 (which is a bit faster on floating point math, and about 25% faster on integer math), since this configuration would allow me to re-use a sizeable investment I already have in DDR RAM (2 GB of PC3200). I'm upgrading to near-e6600 performance (at least for floating point), for about half the cost.

Cons: Limited selection of motherboards, as socket 939's are on their way out. If you buy one of these CPUs, buy a backup motherboard (and store it properly), as socket 939 motherboards will be getting more and more rare.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/27/2006 6:56:22 PM

Rating + 5 Great processor, but Duo pawns the X2's by nearly 30%


Pros: Great chip for the price, although I get them at cost at work. ;)

Cons: The truth is, however, that the Duo absolutely smokes this processor. Intel has really jumped ahead of AMD with their Duo. I build high-end gaming rigs ($5-10K) and we get all the latest stuff before it is released to the market. I am no Intel fanboy either, its just the facts.

2 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/27/2006 8:36:01 AM

Rating + 5 Good Processor


Pros: Good processor, owned this form 4 months now, no problems. I upgraded from an A64 3200+ and it has a very notable speed increase in the games I play (WOW, BF2, CS:S) and big increase in performance from my workstation apps AutoCAD and Inventor 10.

Cons: The hassle of installing the proscessor

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

JS
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/25/2006 8:04:47 AM

Rating + 4 What Driver?


Pros: Closet Geek, What is the name of the driver on AMD's web site that will fix the gaming problems?

Cons: Can't afford the new games.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

daboggey
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/24/2006 7:24:16 PM

Rating + 5 Great Proc


Pros: Great processor. Smooth and cool.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I own only AMD, my company has moved from Intel and have been very satisfied so far with the move.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Draxtor
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
11/19/2006 11:28:37 PM

Rating + 5 Nice Little processor


Pros: Upgrade from a 3400+, what an improvement. I tried to get the 4800+ but after 3 tries and a $100 price rise I give up. Newegg please forgive me, that I have strayed, I am back now, you had it in stock and you delivered it on time with UPS. I will never try to buy anywhere else. I recommend you to everyone.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Awsome heatsink, keeps my temps in the low 40's C. Only Fedex would have made this better, they always deliver a day earlier.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

defiledfrog
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/16/2006 5:47:38 PM

Rating + 5 Its Good


Pros: It cut my boot times down. I can rip large files alot quicker and just the overall quality of my computer has changed for the better. Better heatsink than other stock HSFs

Cons: Its not the best overclocker i do have it on an epox nforce 4 ultra board with 2gigs of gskill ddr 500
ati x850xt. my 3700 would overclock to 2.7 on stock cooling i can get this one up to 2.6. At stock speeds the thing runs a little warm for my taste but on stock cooling and two cores what do you expect.

Other Thoughts: waiting for vista even though i dont like vista much it will probably take more advantage of the CPU and both cores and the 64-bit part. Plays games pretty well and multitasking is awesome would have liked to get a better price or more cache but what the hey

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Big Steveo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/15/2006 8:59:16 AM

Rating + 5 great for the price


Pros: true multi-tasking. this processor is by far the best investment i have made in a long time. i do alot of video format converting for my ipod and that chewed up my old 3500. i would pretty much start the conversion and walk away for a while. this one takes a lickin and keeps on tickin!

Cons: didnt get much more gaming performance but thats not the processors fault. games arent multi-threaded yet but when they are, it will rock!

Other Thoughts: older motherboards are compaitble with x2's by upgrading the bios. but if your board is capable by replacing the bios chip, replace the chip. i never enjoyed flashing bios' and when i flashed mine, i killed it. the comp would only beep. but replacing the bios chip worked!

be sure to install the dual core optimizer to maximize multi-tasking

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/15/2006 6:23:57 AM

Rating + 5 Good stuff


Pros: Popped in.. workes great

Cons: none that I see

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Closet Geek
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/12/2006 6:29:15 PM

Rating + 5 Affinity Guy


Pros: There is a driver on the AMD website that corrects this problem. It sincs the timing so you no longer have to set cpu affinity.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I didn't have any problems to begin with on my games but I've got all the windows updates. I downloaded it anyway to be safe. NWN, BF2, Jedi Outcast, Half Life 1, COD and MOH all play fine. No problems at all. I can play them and have any background app I want running. I'm digging it. Get the AMD CPU driver and enjoy your purchase.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Closet Geek
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/9/2006 11:46:00 PM

Rating + 5 Nice, like winning the powerball nice


Pros: It's fast. I just upgraded from a single core 3800 and am smiling.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: My FPS in BF2 increased about 15 frames over my single core 3800. Oh, I was also running a virus scan.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
11/9/2006 6:32:30 PM

Rating + 4 Not for Gamers


Pros: This processor overclocks easily to 2.5 GHZ per core ON AIR...Thats with my Zalman 9500 which is kind of a monster heatsink, but I have no temperature problems for the entire year its been running intense games while clocked that high. It's pretty fast with a lot of applications...

Cons: Not the best choice for gaming... Affinity problems like crazy because games have not been designed for dual core procs yet. I cant even say how annoying it was before I found out what was causing all the lag and crashes on 9 out of 10 games I play. Also very annoying having to ctrl-alt-del and set the freakin affinity to one core every time I start a game so system memory wont get eaten up to the point of crashing/ locking up/ warning screens etc.....

GAMES ARE NOT DESIGNED TO FUNCTION CORRECTLY USING THIS PROCESSOR UNLESS YOUR ONLY USING ONE OF THE CORES. MIGHT AS WELL BUY A ATHLON 64 3800+ AND SAVE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other Thoughts: Still a reliable processor.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
11/8/2006 7:13:49 PM

Rating + 5 Good CPU


Pros: Awesome processor! I work with these Cup's every day for asus/HP. I get ahold of computers that have over 80 - 100 running processes, and this cpu is running ice cold, and under 25% of usage. I have seen computer that take over 10 minutes to boot up to windows with a single core 3000, and i put in one of these it boot under one minute. I have found the some flaws with the 3000's, but nothing has ever gone wrong with the 4000's. It's all your really right now. It's quick, runs cool, and it's cheap! I don't know any games that needs a duel core 2.6 ghz processor.....lol

Cons: I can't say anything bad about this cpu.

Other Thoughts: Don't put too much thermalpaste on! I don't want to see one of these at work becasue morons put to much thermalpaste on or try to put a 939 cpu into a AM2. DON'T make a review and say the con is it's not a quad core, or it's not cheap enough, get a job, and shut up about the price! i hate reading reviews, and hearing people cry, because it costs more that their bigger king jobs pays them a week.

4 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Flyhii
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/5/2006 9:10:22 PM

Rating + 5 Good Buy


Pros: Excellent performer. Gotta LOVE that 4-tube heat pipe HSF! Runs cool-never got over 51*C under 3 1/2 hrs of heavy usage using stock thermal pad. Woulda bought this CPU eariler but was out of my price range. Best CPU I have ever owned.

Cons: Outside of 939-pin socket being dead end as far as upgradeability goes, absolutely none.

Other Thoughts: I replaced a perfectly fine X2 4200+(which is going into the wife's box). Running a X2 4600+ on an Asus A8N-E mobo w/ eVGA GeForce 7900GTX w/ 2Gb Corsair XMS PC3200 mem all powered by a PC P & C 510 PSU-blows thru everything I've run w/ ease. Newegg is tops in my book! Unless you're into cutting-edge stuff, this is an excellent option for the bargain-minded users.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

crazymason
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/4/2006 7:03:10 PM

Rating + 5 Very good


Pros: Very fast , easy to install, Driver package and optimizer on amd plus hot fix from windows (on amd site too) and you do not need to reinstall windows, just clean up, defrag, and scan disc before you start.Runs virus scanner or plays dvds with out breaking a sweat. Truly easy to install, read AMD forums for all the advice you need. Theres alot of posts on installing these. My chip runs very cool and It is very fast...I upgrade from a 3500, this destroys that.

Cons: I shoulda bought this sooner. Im always a year behind ,,,or two,,,,Too expensive to buy the newest big thing...Prices drop alot in a year! Next year I will get a quad core or core duo...who knows!

Other Thoughts: If you bend the pins on a cpu slightly, use a clean razor or something to realign the bent ones with straight ones (only if its just a few pins) You might as well try it, you cant return it if they bent! Use a big magnifying glass, good light and a ravor as a straight edge....Be gentle! Its very easily fixable,,,, Just keep lining them up and retrying it, DO NOT force it in socket!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Eric
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/4/2006 5:02:51 PM

Rating + 5 Smokin' cpu... in a good way.


Pros: OCs very well with Asus A8V. Very stable. OEM fan has small footprint even with the heatpipes. Not very hot OC'd to 2700Mhz(idle: 34c - load: 54c). Great dualie for the cash. 939s live!

Cons: Zip.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Tre
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/2/2006 10:56:27 AM

Rating + 5 Great CPU


Pros: Fast, great for gaming , good overclocker, low temps.

Cons: Not many boards will suppport dual core cpu with agp and ddr. 939 chips are being replaced by AM2.

Other Thoughts: Install amd dual code driver.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Naku
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/1/2006 6:43:19 AM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: very fast, daul core, good support if you need it

Cons: some games havent been daul core patched may require amd optimizer from amd.com

Other Thoughts: if yous gets to hot you probally have bad cooling because i have
amd athlone64 4600 x2, 2gb ocz ram, 250gb WD HD, 80gb WD HD, 500 watz power, evga motherbaord and my pc rarely gets more than 10 degrees over room temperature sometimes less than room temp on idle

0 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

TAOS001
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/31/2006 4:01:03 PM

Rating + 5 Brilliant processor


Pros: Great design. performs with no sweat. replaced my P4 3.4. AMD created a new platform surpassing anything on the market. Intel has long way to go in terms of design to catch-up with AMD.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Thought, i could oc it mildly using stock hs. but, it OCd to 2.7. brilliant!!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Bup
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/28/2006 10:26:33 PM

Rating + 5 Stupendous!


Pros: It is fast and it is AMD! What else is there?

Cons: I wish it overclocked like the Opteron.

Other Thoughts: I will definitely buy another AMD product when this computer gets taken to the bone yard.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

garvanfarm
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/28/2006 7:25:27 PM

Rating + 5 All the power you need


Pros: Great speed and performance.I overclocked it to 2.6-2.7 ghz with no problems.Runs cool,but but buy the artic silver thermal compound instead of the thermal tape amd gives you on there heatsink.I also bought a artic cooling heat sink and fan for best results!!!!

Cons: NONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

amd doode
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/27/2006 10:51:58 AM

Rating + 5 cant wait till i get it


Pros: its still cheaper than am2 by 75 bucks in its class! i know this chip will be good for the next 3 years in gaming life. i'm still using 754 2.4 chip with no problems

Cons: got to wait a few days to recieve it :p

Other Thoughts: "goodbye" single core! now its time to go 2x timing

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Runway
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/24/2006 1:41:38 PM

Rating + 4 Respectable


Pros: Everything you'd expect from a retail processor of this price range.

Cons: The "keyed" corner wasn't very obvious at first. Tripple check it.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Delbert
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/16/2006 1:05:16 PM

Rating + 5 Fast but not hot


Pros: Fast, Cool and Quiet.
Price performance is great!

Cons: Now I am hooked on AMD I am going to have to get rid of all my Intel based boards and chips! $$$ It would have been cheaper to stay ignorant.

Other Thoughts: So much better than the Intel chips I have been using. My computer does not feel like a toaster!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Adam B.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/16/2006 8:41:38 AM

Rating + 5 Solid Performance for a Good Price


Pros: Good speed, dual core, 64-bit support, low price, sits in the exceedingly common socket 939.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: This is a great processor, especially for the money. I built a PVR box (MythTV) with this and it works like a champ and can even take on other server duties around the house without breaking a sweat.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

matty
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
10/14/2006 4:36:26 PM

Rating + 3 see ya amd


Pros: last amd chip I will buy. Quad core intel chips are the way to go at least in the near future. Unless amd comes out with a quad core for socket 939 but they arent.

Cons: pricey for an aqntiquated chip and socket.

Other Thoughts: Too bad there wont be a quad core socket 939.

2 out of 25 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/13/2006 9:49:48 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: this a great product at a good price

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: should have picked amd over intel a long time ago

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

JustAnEngineer
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/12/2006 12:07:45 PM

Rating + 5 Hassle-free dual core upgrade


Pros: Very easy drop-in upgrade to an existing Socket-939 system. Included retail heatsink is very good, eliminating the need for an aftermarket heatsink.

Cons: Socket-939 is dying out. If you're building a new system, it's not a good choice.

Other Thoughts: You may need to update your AMD processor driver to re-activate Cool 'n Quiet after upgrading from a single core CPU.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

tw
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
10/10/2006 5:11:54 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Planning on getting this when it drops more in price. The 512k of cache has been tested to be just as effective as 1mb most of the time, but should run cooler, and thus be easier to overclock.

Cons: 4800 oem has dropped, but 4600 hasn't

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
10/8/2006 7:05:28 PM

Rating + 4 Sweet!


Pros: It is pretty nice! Good for OCing, but I broke a pin due to my stupidity!

Cons: only 512kb of cache.

Other Thoughts: I would have to recomend going for hte 4400+ or 4800+ becuase the 1mb of cache makes it go blazing! Just bought the 4800+ as a replacement and it is excelelnt

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/4/2006 7:06:03 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: I do notice a difference in performance from upgrading from a 3800+ single-core.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: After installing the new cpu, my hard drive failed? Hope to diagnose the problem. Also, had to update BIOS on my Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

_-~L0KEMAN~-_
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
10/3/2006 5:24:15 PM

Rating + 4 pretty good


Pros: pretty quick, better bang for buck, overclocks really nice like. runs fairly cool.

Cons: this proc seems to lock up more than my 3.4 p4 prescott ever did.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Cuebix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2006 5:34:08 AM

Rating + 5 Out Standing


Pros: Flawless, it came packaged nice, runs beautiful on Stock fan. You wouldn't bieleve this was a Stock fan. AMD over Intel Any Day. I can def see a Diffrence as I up graded from a 3200+ Singal Core. All the Games that Played at Low FPS are Super high and Has overall improved my whole System. A+++++++

Cons: None...

Other Thoughts: Fast Shipping From Newegg Like Always.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/1/2006 7:41:38 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Easiest haetsink/cpu I've ever installed. My Athlon XP2400, took 4-8 hours rendering 1hr high quality DVD's. With this CPU, it takes only a hour, to render a hour DVD. Can't beat this.

Cons: None so far,

Other Thoughts: When I have enough xtra funds, or my other 2 (XP2800 and XP2400)computers are next.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

zerogee
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/29/2006 10:55:40 PM

Rating + 5 939s Still Rock!


Pros: I upgraded from a single core 3000+ and it was worth it! With the drop in CPU prices, any existing 939 owner should jump on this! It blows through video encoding and games like a breeze!

Cons: AMD is phasing out the 939 chips.

Other Thoughts: Purchase this only if you are an existing 939 owner and want to save $$$. AM2s still don't provide enough of a performance advantage to completely upgrade your system. If you are building a system from scratch or if cpu upgradability is important, build yourself an AM2 system.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Csims
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
9/27/2006 7:44:16 PM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: Very stable and fast i'm happy with the money spent not too pricey

Cons: Dosen't have a 2mb l2 cache

Other Thoughts: Get sli I highly recommend it

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

tmg
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
9/23/2006 9:56:04 PM

Rating + 1 Not too happy


Pros: Fast speed, great price, and easy to intstall.

Cons: The processor gets too *HOT*. It starts out at 33cc and ends up over 99cc, 200 degree fahrenheit! then the system shuts off!

Other Thoughts: It may be a defect, but what would it be?

0 out of 28 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2006 5:48:01 PM

Rating + 5 Very Fast


Pros: Fast, easy to install, cheap price

Cons: no cons

Other Thoughts: Blazingly fast. You need a dual core optimizer program to make it work with older applications but if you are looking to upgrade for Vista as I was this is a perfect way to get ready for the new OS.

7 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Kapellen421
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/20/2006 12:28:38 PM

Rating + 5 SWEET PROCESSOR


Pros: The price was excellent. The pure power that I get from the processor is insane.

Cons: The heatsink is good. But could be better. You need to go onto the AMD website in order to make this processor work really well with the games.

Other Thoughts: AMD. Always a beeter choice then Intel. I don't care if they have a "faster" processor out right now. All their 64bit processors are based off of AMD old 64bit technology. Thats right, AMD sold Intel their old 64bit processor architechture.

2 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/20/2006 11:25:31 AM

Rating + 4 Cool CPU!!


Pros: * Double Core
* AMD 4600+
* decent Price

Cons: * 512 MB on L2 Cache
* will become outdated in the near future just like the 754 Pin

Other Thoughts: I still need to see what else(MORE) can this cpu do in compare with 3200+ single core.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

dan m
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/18/2006 6:56:13 PM

Rating + 5 gotta love people who bash


Pros: Processors are Processors they all work so lets get over that as far as performance intel vs amd they are close and that is it its personal preference i like amd so i go with it and i am happy

intel is good

this processor well it works its fast and its all i need

Cons: none

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Annihilator
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
9/17/2006 5:21:25 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Great value! Replaced my 3500+ and much better performance! Faster, more cache, and dual core! 64-bit isn't the norm now, but I'm practically salivating for when crysis comes out!

Cons: Just 20 bucks more than the 3500 when I bought it.

Other Thoughts: Not to make this a forum post, I feel bad for the other guy who said this isn't great compared to the core 2 duos. Ummmm yea the other is faster in 32-bit, but for crysis, 10-20% boost in cpu performance sounds good to me. Faster memory achitecture will destroy the Core 2's, this processor much cheaper, and the support hardware is cheaper too (PC 3200 is about the same as the faster stuff, costs less, cheaper mobo's, etc...)
AMD still owns the gaming market for the price, and nothing will change about that for the next few years.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

cannedstars
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/17/2006 4:55:44 AM

Rating + 5 few tweaks and you'll be rockin'


Pros: Runs smoothly, the stock fan is suprisingly good, at idle 35C and full load 46C. Got rid of the preapplied stock thermal paste and used Arctic Silver 5. That made to drop the temp for 2 degrees of C. Speaking of drops - the price drop is great too!

Cons: I can't really think of any right now, but I run the CPU for two weeks, so the experience is too short.

Other Thoughts: Don't forget to instal Windows XP SP2 Dual Core Performance Hot Fix - go to AMDzone.com and search for "hotfix".

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Wade
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/16/2006 11:43:30 AM

Rating + 5 GREAT!


Pros: Dual-core and fast. Since it is a 939, it has mature motherboards and memory, unlike AM2 and Core 2 setups where a ton of users were reporting memory problems.

Cons: 939 is dying.

Other Thoughts: Yes, Core 2 is better, far better. But it is new, and thus you'll be hard pressed to find a quality motherboard and memory at good prices. And, considering memory and motherboards, this is the cheapest way to go dual-core.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/9/2006 4:11:36 PM

Rating + 5 Smooth upgrade from Athlon 64 3500+


Pros: Very easy swap out. I updated the my winXP system with this driver before processor upgrade. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version. IT BSOD'd once, I booted to safe mode it installed the driver and updated from uniproc to mulitproc,rebooted and I was good to go. VMWARE has never run so well

Cons: None that I can think of

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
9/5/2006 7:59:42 PM

Rating + 3 very sorry for you all


Pros: not sure.

Cons: very sorry for you people who bought the X2, core duo 2 rocks. this comes from a guy who had two amd systems built for the last 4 years.

Other Thoughts: amd bet on the wrong horse. 64 bit stuff sucks. no need for it for 99% of all the users for atleast 10 years.

2 out of 116 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

maestro
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/1/2006 9:33:20 PM

Rating + 5 Great value...well worth it


Pros: I've had this for over a month now. Went from an A64 3000 to this. Games run better. No hiccups when virus scanning and doing anything else. Price drop was nice (it was even cheaper when I purchased it a month ago). Runs cool. Heatsink is effective. I also got a new (quality) case to go with it which probably helps as well.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: It's a good processor for sure. Real world multitasking should improve but don't expect miracles. I haven't done the "run as many demanding apps at once" torture test as others have, so I can't offer any input on the X2 4600 in that respect.

I installed the AMD driver, MS hotfix, and D/C optimizer. No issues but I haven't been able to discern any difference in performance with them vs. without them. Nevertheless I kept them installed.

11 out of 11 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Roorunner
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/31/2006 7:38:11 PM

Rating + 5 great price great cpu


Pros: nice cpu. good price. Will prob go down in computer history as one of the legends. 50 years from now folks will fondly think back to this cpu.

Cons: not free, well it is a thought.

Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace an AMD 3700+. Little did I know that my main computer would die (Intel 3.02) while waiting for this cpu. So, I ordered a mobo for this cpu today and will use it instead of that *&^&%$%#@@#%&%) Intel chip as my main work computer (dvd burning, internet, email, etc). Oh the irony of it all.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Josh
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/31/2006 1:45:40 PM

Rating + 5 Wow


Pros: Definitely Fast
Great CPU
Even better price

Cons: kinda sits weird in my A8n Sli-Deluxe..thats all

Other Thoughts: I installed this thinking I wouldn't have to re-install windows. Ended up having too anyway.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Steel_Dreams
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
8/25/2006 5:57:51 PM

Rating + 5 AMD 64 X2 4600+


Pros: this baby went to 2.6Ghz like nothing @ defualt Cpu V. Temps are good @ 30%c Watercooled .just for starters .

Cons: None so far . i wish more games took advantage of the second core ,,,,,, soon :)

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

TonySki
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/22/2006 2:06:31 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Great ammount of bang for it's buck. the Dual core makes running all of my games alot faster.

the price drop makes it worth the wait.

Cons: nada

Other Thoughts: get this, it's worth it

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

techfuzz
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/17/2006 6:46:59 AM

Rating + 5 Fast


Pros: Very fast, nice to be back to dual cpu again!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Upgraded from a 3000+ (2GHz) to this X2 4600+ (also 2GHz) and I'm impressed with these dual core chips. Can't wait to see how high I can push this one!

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

boss9967
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/5/2006 10:19:42 PM

Rating + 5 excellent


Pros: Great , very fast , Aquamark3 CPU 10,900 , super PI 1M 35 second both test without overclock , right now with the Cool'n'Quiet enable and the stock cooling my temperature is 27c

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I use a old motherboard Abit AV8 with the last BIOS 27 and works great with Dual core .

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

biologic
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/4/2006 7:32:32 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent processor


Pros: Worked great with my ASUS A8N-E motherboard. Properly detected. Temps run at 40c on average. Haven't been able to push it beyond 43c. Works great in linux after installing k7-smp kernel (k8 if you want 64bit). Both cores detected and working. VMware Server seems to work fine. Incredibly cheap thanks to the price war between AMD and Intel.

Cons: Stock fan/heatsink was incredibly difficult to mount. I was worried that it wasn't centered when I was done, but temps seem ok so far.

Other Thoughts: Wish Linux had some good benchmarking software to really test it out.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

Praz
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
8/3/2006 3:29:31 PM

Rating + 5 Great bang for the buck


Pros: Stock thermal paste is better than A*5/C*ramique. Idles at 35C when Cool n Quiet is on, around 38C without. OCs well if you have good RAM. Faster than an FX60 @ 2.6ghz (the easiest overclock to do out of the box). Games fly, still trying to get out of the habit of waiting for the computer to finish doing something - b/c well - it's dual core!

Cons: Make sure you install the dual core optimizer and dual core drivers from the amd website. Also, download the WinXP dual processor patch. I had a problem where this cpu would hang sometimes even after drivers/patch, but I just upped the ram voltage to 2.6v and it's fine again.

Other Thoughts: ASUS A8N5X, Rosewill RP550-2 psu, 2gigs PC3200, x1800xt. The stock cooler has heatpipes but faces down like conventional ones. I bought the Artic Freezer 64 Pro cooler. Blows air to the back of the case. Recommended if you're going to OC.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
8/3/2006 3:03:22 PM

Rating + 5 still way to pricey


Pros: Great chip, and I would like to buy it from Newegg...

Cons: This can easily be found on several other sites for seventy to eighty dollars less!

Other Thoughts: I'm waiting a little longer, and if they don't get with it on the price cuts I'm ordering elsewhere... unfortunately :(

0 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Chivalrysae
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
7/31/2006 10:11:15 AM

Rating + 5 I'm such a N00b


Pros: Not too much of a Pro since I didn't install it. I accidentally ordered the 939 when I needed the AM2. The CPU cooler that comes stock looks very impressive! Unless you plan to overclock this sucker, you will not need an after market heatsink.

Cons: Other than me being a moron and buying the wrong socket, I got nothing bad to say

Other Thoughts: I did get the AM2 of this chip and it runs great! I would recommend this. And if you see this as an open box (OEM) I never pulled the CPU out. So enjoy the discount at my expense. O.o

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Do the math!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/30/2006 1:32:06 PM

Rating + 5 Perfect!


Pros: Can't beat the price even though they did go up.
Got my 2 at $xxx
2.4GHz 512 cache, yes that is a pro.

For all of you complaining about it not being 1 meg cache, do some research.
512 cache cpus overclock much better than a 1mb cache cpu.
The 1 meg cache doesn't make a noticable improvement in any gaming application.
As a matterof fact, it can slow down performance on some apps, mostly games.
As for a 3800 X2 being 2.4 Ghz as well it has to run 4 instruction sets per cycle where as the 4600 X2 only needs 2 instruction sets per cycle.

And yeah there is a reason it has less reviews. People don't do enough research.
Why do you think this CPU kept going out of stock and went up in price?

Cons: Not a one!

Other Thoughts: If you are running 7900 GT cards or higher in SLI with this cpu and want to overclock the cpu AND vid cards.
You need a proper power supply or your cpu will throttle back.
This is the reason some people don't see the improvement they should see.
PC power & cooling has the 510 SLI psu that is pretty much the best you can get for this type of configuration.
Go there and read about it, read the reviews.
It will peak 630 watts when needed, but most important it has 38 amps on the 12v rails.
You won't see that on other power supplies even at 630 watts.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Majin GeoDooD
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/27/2006 6:01:37 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Value


Pros: The main pro right now is the price. It's $xxx less than it was a week ago. I upgraded from a single core 3200+ Winchester core. The performance difference is amazing!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: AMD rocks.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

yubman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/27/2006 8:06:36 AM

Rating + 5 Great Price


Pros: Processing power to spare now that the price has dropped. Upgraded from a 939 3000 to this cpu was a snap.

Cons: Some single threaded apps (games) will run slower with dual core.

Other Thoughts: Don't forget to get the latest dual core cpu drivers from AMD's site. There is also a hotfix from Microsoft and some registry mods that some in the AMD forums noted you may need as well.

Did you find this review helpful? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/25/2006 2:02:17 PM

Rating + 5 Soooo Fast


Pros: Insanely Fast. Soo Cheap now

Cons: Odd stepping between the 44 and the 48. Now that the price has dropped on the 48 the extra money moght be worth it

Other Thoughts: Get the driver for dual core. But the hotfix is only needed for laptops. I Benched the same scores with the hotfix on and off

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
7/24/2006 7:50:43 PM

Rating + 5 w00ters


Pros: MUCH cheaper than it was a few days ago. Big improvement over my old 3200+.

Cons: Low cache, but doesn't make much difference when it comes to gaming.

Other Thoughts: Worth every penny. If you have a socket 939 board, the time to upgrade your CPU has never been better.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

DSTER
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/15/2006 9:20:39 AM

Rating + 4 Nice CPU


Pros: Very fast can handle almost anything you can throw at it.

Cons: low cache, im not sure why they made this cpu with such low cache, don't get me wrong the freakin rocks but wt.f..

Other Thoughts: I really wouldn't recommend it. Its freakin fast and all but its alot more $$$ then the am2 4400, sure you get 2.4ghz instead of 2.2 but you get half the cache with the 4600 compared to the 4400. I recommend getting the cheaper 4400 and you can just OC another 0.2ghz and BOOM you got a x2 4800 on the cheap..

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Chris
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
6/8/2006 4:54:33 PM

Rating + 4 Good, but a good choice?


Pros: Very quick processor. Great at multi-tasking of any kind. Encoding of any kind goes so much faster with a dual core.

Cons: Too expensive. Low cache.

Other Thoughts: This is fast, for sure. But it's not worth it with only 512KB cache size. The X2's OC very well and one could easily push a 4400+ to 4800+ speeds and still have the 1MB cache. There's a reason why this doesn't have as many reviews as the 4400+ and 4800+.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Original Geeksta
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
6/7/2006 3:09:18 AM

Rating + 5 If Chuck Norris made a CPU...


Pros: then this would be it, but with better acting. It is however a beast that kicks anything else in the face whenever it has the chance. Also like Chuck Norris, it doesnt make much noise. I play F.E.A.R. at 1280x1040-32, and have no issues at all. In fact the only issue I have had, was from the thing being too fast. I had to set it to run Star Wars: Battlefront on one core only, otherwise the gameplay was about 300% of its normal speed. (Notice how I list that as a Pro ;) ) It also comes with a very nice alluminum heatpipe cooler, that installed to my DFI board in just a second, keeping the unit at under 50^ all the time, game or no game.

Cons: They didnt accidentally ship me an FX-60?

Other Thoughts: CNet has a very informative review comparing the newest dual core CPU's, in which the 4600+ ranks second only to the 4800+ (The FX-60 was not released at the time the review was written)

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

DeKs
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/6/2006 6:18:50 AM

Rating + 5 What a beast


Pros: Hah... I can run World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike:Source and not lag at all. This is probably the best thing that I have bought off newegg. Just a complete beast.

Cons: Hah... with AMD? Yea right :D

Other Thoughts: Amazing processor, really has increased my overall speed more than I had expected with an X2.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

MadWolfX
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/25/2006 6:40:10 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing


Pros: This processor is amazing. I have always been an AMD fan but WOW. DVD shrink in less than 15 minutes. Playing oblivion at max setting. Virus scan of over 300GB in less than 20 Min. Nothing can slow it down. Get this or the 4800 if you have the cash. Good Motherboard and vid card a must.
My specs:
AMD 4600 X2
Abit AN8 32X
2 GB Ram (2 X 1GB)
NVIDIA 7900 vid(Great vid card)

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: The stock cooling is OK. Keeps the processor cool and isn't very loud. Good case ventilation is a good idea. This processor can put out some heat when working hard.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
4/9/2006 7:08:20 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: This is by far the best proccessor ive ever used. I have tried several high quality Mac workstations (G5s) and none of them even begin to compare to this.

Render times are noticibly faster than the G5 and incompareably faster than single core processors.

Possible to Render part of a scene in maya while working on another part.

All modern games ive played get 60+ FPS with a single 7800GTX

Even for general computing/web browsing/word processing etc. there is a huge difference between dual and single core. The ability to open and close multiple programs while listening to music, defragging, installing new software, as well copying files to an external hard drive with no slow down on any one is insane.

Cons: Now that the price is dropped it is probably worth grabbing the 4800 instead. Ive never used one, but the larger cache may be imporant.

Other Thoughts: Go dual core, you will never go back.

4600 X2, 7800 GTX, 2 gig RAM, 2x WD 74 gig 10,000 RPM, SB Fatality, Antec Truecontrol.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/23/2006 6:09:18 AM

Rating + 5 Pretty good when fixed


Pros: Great CPU, system rocks

Cons: The heat sink that comes with it doesn't hold heat well. System would start to over heat & it would power down anywhere between 30-90 seconds. Had to get rid of the termal pad & use Shin-Etsumicrosi. Once I had the grease on there the system was rock solid.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2006 6:28:06 PM

Rating + 5 Wow!


Pros: Very fast. Once properly configured under WindowsXP (AMD Processor driver followed by Microsoft Hotfix and Registry edit), this thing is incredible.

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: Pretty cool to be able to load software in one window, download three files in another, play iTunes in another, and also surf the 'net with no noticable slow down at all.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

HokieRif
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/27/2006 1:45:04 PM

Rating + 5 A good investment


Pros: It's fast! I reach the FPS ceiling for Doom 3 and Quake 4 (which is around 60-70) and the HL2: Lost Coast demo runs at over 100fps. Video encoding was a HUGE improvement over my old XP 2600 which I attribute to the dual-core.

Cons: a little pricey, but that's coming down quickly. It does generate plenty of heat, so get an additional cooling device (water or copper+fan) if you plan on overclocking.

Other Thoughts: Just to put the FPS and boot times in to perspective I'm running a pair of 320GB HD's (7500 RPM, 16mb cache, NCQ, RAID 0), 2 GB of RAM @ 218, 2-3-3-6 1T timing, and the game FPS were done with a pair of 6800XT cards in SLI.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

darkside
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/17/2006 6:55:56 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing....


Pros: Amazing CPU. Wicked fast. Can you imagine goin from a 2.2ghz P4 w/o hyperthreading to this?? There is no comparison, I've got it OC'd to 2.6 GHz, its crazy fast, and 64-bit HL2 looks amazing, so good in fact, it scares me!

Cons: Running 64-bit windows on it, Crashes frequently, but thats an operating system thing.

Other Thoughts: Yes its expensive, but hey, its one of the best procs on teh market and I <3 it so much.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/28/2005 1:59:46 AM

Rating + 5


Comments: Had a few compatibility problems with my mobo but this processor is ridiculously fast

0 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Tim
Tech Level:
Ownership:
11/3/2005 8:03:56 PM

Rating + 5 A great processor but....


Comments: dont get it. it has only 1mb of L2 cashe. get the 4400 or 4800. you can overclock to get more mhz, but u cant do anything to get more cashe. just some advice.

22 out of 29 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
9/11/2005 6:57:37 AM

Rating + 5 Dual Core


Comments: AMD Rocks, never have I seen or used a faster computer than the one I just built. And I beleave that all the speed can be contributed to this processor. Once again Thanks NewEgg

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
8/21/2005 10:37:08 PM

Rating + 5 in-stinkin-credible


Comments: Using this on a WYSIWYG (CAD) computer and it friggin smokes!! Well worth the money you pay.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

dave
Tech Level:
Ownership:
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/18/2005 6:21:48 PM

Rating + 5 best i've ever owned


Comments: went from 45 fps to 70fps encoding divx video with this processor. this is "THE" proc for multitasking and encoding media. as always, newegg rock!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

zim
Tech Level:
Ownership:
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/10/2005 8:23:47 PM

Rating + 5 great buy


Comments: amazed by this one, bought this a week ago for my new workstation and couldn't be happier. i'm able to run all my 3d programs all at once without a problem. deff a must have for a workstation

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
8/6/2005 10:40:38 PM

Rating + 5 Do some Research


Comments: This is for the guy who doesn't know anything about the X2 Chips....you aren't paying double for another 512mb cache, you are paying double because it's like having 2 cpu's in one. Its basically two athlon 64 3800+, ofcourse its not twice as fast....but you will be able to run two times more with out slowing down. As for the guy with the opteron....both CPUs are totally identical. It is just a branding thing. Opterons are supposed to be "professional" so professional customers want to get the "professional" Opteron, not the "gaming CPU" Athlon64.

1 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/2/2005 7:18:44 AM

Rating + 5 Runs Circles Around Intel


Comments: I recently moved from a previous Pentium 4 2.8 with HT to the machine specs you see below. When HT came out, there was definately a fine line performance wise between single and multiple threads. Although Intels HT concept was a great benchmark and paved a clear path for multithreaded applications, it is clear now with the X2, that 2 Processors, and not two threads, yields better performance. I love this processor and I hope that my decision in getting it while anticipating future games to utilize it was a good one. As far as single threaded games, it still is a monster.

System Specs
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
OCZ 2x512 DDR SDRAM
DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-DR
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GTX

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
7/19/2005 2:47:50 PM

Rating + 5


Comments: they would pay double because it's just like having 2 processors in one. in essence dual core thus X2

0 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
7/16/2005 2:27:12 PM

Rating + 4 pretty good


Comments: Its great i guess but i dont understand why anyone would pay double for another 512kb cache
(amd athlon 64 3800+ has 2.4ghz)

1 out of 23 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
7/9/2005 3:17:13 PM

Rating + 5


Comments: im not really sure but wouldnt it be better to get just dual Opteron
for around same price

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

blackdawn
Tech Level:
Ownership:
7/8/2005 11:12:41 PM

Rating + 4 good board


Comments: this is a great board for the money, iv had mine close to 6 months now and i only have a few complaints, first off the chipset fan is loud and sometimes likes to cut out(a well noted problem) and if you try to overclock your fsb above about 225 you will get nothing but problems, i tried everything i could think of and i could not manage to get this board past that mark. otherwise great board and i love the bios

0 out of 30 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

N/A
Tech Level:
Ownership:
7/1/2005 8:49:27 AM

Rating + 5 Worlds Best Processor


Comments: This is by far the best processor on the planet. I can never see myself ever going back to a single core processor.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Filter Results     apply changes
     
NeweggBusiness
For Business Needs EggXpert.com
Newegg Community |NeweggMall.com
Shop Multiple Retailers 		Shop by Region: United States | Canada | China
VeriSignReseller RatingsReliability Seal1This site protected by Trustwave's Trusted Commerce programInc500
Policy & Agreement | Privacy Policy | NeweggBusiness | Newegg Canada  © 2000-2010 Newegg Inc.  All rights reserved.
If the Adobe Reader does not appear when you click on a link for a PDF file, you can download Adobe Reader from the Adobe web site. nassau