Review on AMD Athlon II X3 400E Energy Efficient Rana 2.2 GHz 3x512 KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 45W Triple-Core Processor for Retail - AD400EHDGIBOX by DaHee Cheon ᠌

Name: AMD Athlon II X3 400E Energy Efficient Rana 2.2 GHz 3x512 KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 45W Triple-Core Processor for Retail - AD400EHDGIBOX
Item: AMD Athlon II X3 400E Energy Efficient Rana 2.2 GHz 3x512 KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 45W Triple-Core Processor for Retail - AD400EHDGIBOX
Rating: 5

November 25, 2022

A good quality product, I rate this purchase perfectly.

Great processor, good overclocking potential. If you are lucky and the kernel unlocks without dancing and glitches, you will get excellent performance at a penny price. Stability tests after unlocking were carried out in LinX programs and processor-dependent games - BattleField3 and CS:GO. Games on the engine from CryTek do not produce artifacts even at standard 1.35V voltage. On regular 1.35V - BattleField 3 produces an artifact of textures (they blink), CS:GO freezes after 5 minutes of play. After stabilizing the core with a voltage of 1.4V, artifacts and freezes disappeared. The temperature in the load is high - 60Gr. (summer, +30 in the room) at 100% CPU load (BlueOrb Thermaltake Cooler)

Pros

Great processor! Three cores. When unlocking the fourth core, there is a chance to get a whole core, a kind of bonus from AMD. The unlocked core in BF3 gives a HUGE framerate boost. My core was unlocked, but it gives artifacts in games, I had to raise the voltage to 1.4V, the artifacts disappeared. The core was rejected due to inoperability at standard 1.35V. I was lucky that it was only stress. A friend has the same processor - the kernel was unlocked without jambs at all. After unlocking the kernel in BIOS and in Windows, the processor was defined as AMD Phenom II x4 B50 3.2GHz.

Cons

For this price - NO.

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Somchai Promsombat ᠌

November 28, 2022

The fourth core was immediately unlocked. But without the L3 cache. With the 4th core and a frequency of 3.5GHz, it works fine. It will probably work at higher frequencies.

Makoto Oonishi ᠌

November 25, 2022

I bought a BOX-version a year ago, the cooler, oddly enough, turned out to be quite quiet. Together with the mother MSI 760GM-P21-FX they work perfectly: the 4th core and the L3 cache are unlocked. In idle 35 degrees, during operation - a maximum of 65.