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Should work fine. I used the heat sink from my Opty 144 (1.8ghz oc'd to 2.6) on my 4600 (stock 2.4ghz) with no problems. Temps were about 45 idle and high 50's on load.
Here's the situation:
I was given a 4600+, but the IHS had been removed for water cooling, then put back on with epoxy. While installing a Golden Orb II, the IHS came loose and shifted. I've been running it for a little over a week now like this, with no problems, but it doesn't seem to run...
I'm getting a 4400+ x2 from a friend, but he had it watercooled, and threw out the stock hsf. Would my stock Opty 144's hsf keep the x2 cool enough? Its currently running the Opty at 35c idle and 48c under load, overclocked to 2.62ghz. Unless I'm missing something, it should be sufficient if I...
I noticed the temp on the voltage regulator in AtiTool hitting 92-93c under load. Is this a fairly normal temp for it to reach? The core is staying in the high 70's, so its fairly safe.
ECS mobos are usually pretty basic boards. Don't expect to get any overclocking out of it. I've had a few in the past, and they were almost all pretty stable at least (one was a dud, but that happens). Good price if you really need an upgrade on the cheap.
Wonderful little processor. I have mine cranked to 2.62 on stock HSF, and the heat is very acceptible (not on that computer atm, can check later if anyone wants). I've heard of several hitting 3.0 on a good motherboard.
The stock bios (1.20) recognized my 144 as an opteron right away. I still flashed to the 1.50 though, just because I like to run the most current versions of everything.
I've been researching that exact situation. The ASRock is the only mobo I found that runs true AGP 8x and PCIe. Everything else is AGP express. Everything I've found out about the 939Dual SATA2 shows it to be an excellent overclocker, and very stable.
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