Thread: AMD Athlon II X4 620 processors

Currently, AMD seems to be particularly on the Phenom processors to concentrate. With the Phenom X4 965 Black Edition AMD recently introduced the highest-clocked AMD CPU on the market. But the Athlon series will now be brought up to date. In addition to the X2 and X3 processors play especially the quad-core versions of an important role, because they differ only by the lack of L3 cache of the Phenom processors. We have the AMD Athlon X4 620 a closer looked at and compared with the just-introduced Intel Core i5 processors. Since AMD wants to make a model of differentiation evident only on the L3 cache, but this seems to be disabled only, started shortly after publication of the first processors that attempts to unlock again.



Many a motherboard offers in its BIOS is an option called Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC).This is an exclusive feature of the motherboard with SB750 southbridge. The ACC option should be the need for better overclocking. This is made possible through a direct connection to the southbridge to the CPU with 6 pins. We chose for our experiment, a TA790GX Biostar A2 +. The positive effects of activated L3 caches are seen so much and if available, of course, desirable. However, it is not clear how long AMD Athlon his II X4 processors with Propus-core or better said, the two models 620 and 630 still unwilling to equip itself with this possibility.