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eBay wrote: - Why you bought it I was asked by a courier driver if I could help repair his wife's PC (1-core 2GHz Athlon, MSI MS-7184 mbd with onboard VGA, 768MB DDR266, 160GB IDE, 300W PSU, XP Home). The disk was utterly mangled by viri. My recommendation was it would be cheaper/better to replace the mbd, CPU & RAM entirely (and switch to XP Pro in the process), which, with a budget of 85 UKP, I was able to achieve with moderate effort re parts hunting on eBay (the upgrade rationale was to give a good speedup while at the same time switching to XP Pro to provide better security functionality, enhanced with the use of Autopatcher, AVG and ZoneAlarm). The 5000+ was the CPU I bought, a significant upgrade over the old single-core 2GHz Athlon the PC had. - What you like most about it Reliable, stable, supported even with an older BIOS (which made choosing a mbd easier), and easy to overclock by a moderate degree. The budget was only sufficient to obtain generic RAM (2 x 1GB DDR2/800) but even then the CPU ran just fine at 2.815GHz (vs. stock 2.6), giving the same speed as a 5600+ at less cost. With a more sophisticated mbd & better RAM, I'm sure it'd oc much higher, to 6000+ levels possibly. I replaced the older cooler with a better AMD cooler which came from an original 6000+, something I wasn't using. - What you dislike about it Nothing to dislike. It's a good chip, especially given how much more expensive an original 6000+ would be. Yes one can obtain faster CPUs for not a lot more (eg. Athlon II X2 250 3GHz), but the budget was fixed in this case so that wasn't an option. - Whether or not you would buy the product again Certainly, if I'm in the same position again. It's surprising what one can do for someone by way of simple but significant upgrades. I was able to find XP Pro with COA for 15 and a mbd for 26 total (ASUS M2N68-AM Plus with onboard VGA). The final config (using the orig disk & PSU) was typically between 2X and 3X faster than the old setup. Pretty good for an 85 quid spend. 8) Ian.Read full review
A good standard cpu which works on most older AMD motherboards and doesnt use too much power and runs linux/windows without problems. Cpu is locked but most motherboards will overclock a little via ram setting and run ok (5 to 7% increase normally- maybe more will high end ram). The black edition of this cpu with go upto 3.1Ghz with air cooling and good ram/ power supply. Great for web browsing or older gaming but will need a vga card for most games to be playable.
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Great chip for older AMD based systems to give them an extra boost. Easy to fit with thermal compound and very affordable, too.
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Bought this to upgrade from my Athlon 64 3500+, wow what a difference! Really good processor, does everything I want it to, just wanted it as a day-to-day processor and so far it's handled everything thrown at it, currently running at an average of 34.5 degrees per core. Highly recommended
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