Avis sur le produitAMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 5000+ - 2.6GHz Dual-Core (ADO5000IAA5DO) Processor

Excellent value, reliable, easy yet useful overclock, good mbd support.

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)

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