Advantages: Multi-Tasking, Will Run Nearly All Aplications without a fuss Disadvantages: Temp Could be a problem, Slightly sluggish on very high end Apps
This processor is good compromise for a person who wants a high end processor but doesn't want to pay the high price. Combined with a good system this little guy will run most games very well, however if you don't have a sound card and are using your motherboard's integrated sound expect a slight drop in performance.
At rest my system's temp is about 30 degrees Celsius, but peaks up to 37-40 during heavy use. Temp is however very dependent on the ... ...how many fans you have and/or use water cooling.
I have two computers with this chip and I find that it is quite satisfactory. I regularly play video games, download and play music, video edit, and dabble in a little bit of everything and I have not ever ran into a program that I could not run because of a slow processor. The times when I wished I had a slightly faster processor were few, and they were not enough for me to warrant paying the big ...
Nate9090 28.05.2007
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Very good processor. Handles everything fast, also cheaper than equivalent Intel Core 2's.
I bought it 2 months ago and never had any complaints. I recommend this to every new pc builder! ...
sui785 23.10.2007
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Advantages: Fast, Quiet And Most Of All Cool Disadvantages: None
...fast processor that comes with AMD Cool N Quiet Drivers for your motherboard.
I personally find the cpu temperature is around 29 Degrees Celcius at its hottest.
The dual core capability makes u able to set affinity for programs, so if you wanted to do a virus scan, you could set it to CPU 0, and meanwhile set all programs you need to CPU 1, therefore no speed is lost.
On the whole, as a computer builder, i have bought about 50 of these so far, ...
darksibtotal001 25.02.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz processor
Advantages: very good for multitasking Disadvantages: not as good for games
...slow . i foun that the reaction was slower than my expectation even though Amd boast of the clock speed. overall i thot that it was good for the money i paid for it if you real want a more powerful proccessor then get ready to pay high end prices. ...
scratchaholiks 21.01.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz processor
Advantages: support virtualization in linux, multi-threading, fast desktop application Disadvantages: could improve linux support improving throttling
i am using this cpu to run a linux home server.
it supports virtualization, so if you want to run other OS (windows, linux, MacX ) on top of linux you can..
and you have plenty of cpu to use for your office stuff.
very good value-for-money in my view. but make sure you buy ddr2 memory of the same frequency as this cpu.
works very quiet and cool; i like listening to music and it very sharp.
i do not do games, thus would not know how it performs ...
nicolasdiogo 15.05.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz processor
this CPU will run any program that you want it to do and will run windows vista with out any problem but the only down side to how fast this cpu is that the amout of hiet that it creates so make shure that you have a good air cooled system or even better go for water cooling but you can throw any thing you like at this cpu and it wil do it no problem what so ever this cpu is great for doing any thing i use it for photo eding playing games word processing ...
fredwi 30.04.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz processor
The AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor puts the power of dual-core technology on the ... more
desktop. Dual-core processors contain two processing cores, residing on one chip, that perform calculations on two streams of data, thereby increasing efficiency and...
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