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 Hayden Hanson ᠌

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

April 05, 2023

A good quality product, I rate this purchase perfectly.

Excellent processor with considerable potential for overclocking. You will receive outstanding performance for the price of a cent if you are lucky enough to have the kernel unlock without any dancing or glitches in the process. After the unlocking of the game, stability tests were performed in LinX programs as well as processor-dependent games like Battlefield 3 and CS:GO. Even when the voltage is set to the industry standard of 1.35 volts, games built on the CryTek engine do not produce artifacts. Battlefield 3 will develop an artifact of its textures, which will cause them to blink, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will freeze after five minutes of gameplay. Artifacts and freezes were no longer present after a voltage of 1.4V was applied to the core in order to stabilize it. With 100% CPU load, the temperature in the load is rather high, reaching 60Gr (during the summer, the room temperature is +30). (BlueOrb Thermaltake Cooler)

Pros

Wonderful word processor! Three different cores As a sort of gift from AMD, there is a possibility that you will receive an entire core when you unlock the fourth core. In Battlefield 3, having the core unlocked results in a significant increase in framerate. My core was unlocked, but playing games with it causes artifacts. To get rid of them, I had to increase the voltage to 1.4 volts, and then they went away. The core was deemed unusable since it was unable to function at the typical 1.35V. It was merely stress, which was a fortuitous break for me. The kernel was successfully unlocked on a friend's computer despite the absence of any jambs in the system. The processor was identified as an AMD Phenom II x4 B50 3.2GHz after the kernel was unlocked in both the BIOS and Windows operating system.

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