4200x2 oc capabilities?

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Dilly man 2

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how well will a 4200 x2 amd processor o/c?

its stock at 2.2ghz, could i get it to 2.4 or just leave it.

and it is x2 so is it 2.2ghz per processor? or 2.2 ghz total?
 
Hi,

First of all, it has 2.2 Ghz per core. Then about the oc, I don't have experience with it but from what I've read you should be able to get to 2.4 without problems and get to even more...but it also depends on much other factors like the mother, the ram, the cooling...nobody can tell you exactly what the results will be. However, as I said before, it should get to 2.4

Bye,

Fedcer
 
if youo OC the 4200 to 2.4ghz will is be just as good as a 4800?? will you even notice the difference between the two??
 
Dilly man 2 said:
so actually can i say a total of 4.4?
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Dual core doesnt double speed. It works sorta like this (sorry skidude if you were about to post this analogy :P)
You have a 2 line highway. The speed limit on it is 75 Mph. However its been getting congested from too many cars. So instead of rasing the speed limit to 130 Mph, the city decides to add another 2 lanes. So while the cars are traveling at the same speed as before paralellism is helping them out. However, if the highway is lightly congested, the lanes wont be filled, but the cars will still be limited to 75 Mph.
I hope this makes sense...

So basicly instead of raising speeds to 3.4 gigahertz or something, AMD is using two paralell cores at a slower speed. Of course if the two cores being fully used, the slower speed will be a disadvantage.
 
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Mr.Suave said:
if youo OC the 4200 to 2.4ghz will is be just as good as a 4800?? will you even notice the difference between the two??
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It won't be exactly the same since the 4800+ has 1MB chache while the 4200+ has only 512KB.

However, most people say that the extra cache, specially on AMDs, doesn't make a hughr difference. (there IS a differnce but is small).

So if you really plan to overclock and don't care about the extra cache I'd say go with a 3800+ and overclock it 2.4, which, from wht I've read, is really doable if you have good memory.

Bye,

Fedcer
 
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how do i explain this... the bus stays the same. its not really double the frequency, nor is it double the heat. theres IS more heat to deal with though.
the time it takes to process more than one thread gets cut in half. two processors can both work on the same thread, however so for single applications it doesnt speed up. its the same way that AMD processors are just as fast as intel (or faster :) ). they process faster, and the ghz just tells you how fast it communicates with other parts of the computer.
 
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