Thursday, September 10, 2009

Memming's AMD Rig @ Home

I just built a new desktop computer for myself a couple of days ago. This is my first AMD machine. (I owned more than 10 intel machines and others)
Here's the sepc:

  • AMD Phenom II x2 550 BE 3.1 GHz (unlocked to x4)

  • ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO motherboard (BIOS 0604, 8/4/9)

  • G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ

  • SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550HT 550W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS

  • Rosewill R5601-BK 0.8mm Japanese Cold Rolled Steel Screw-less Dual 120mm Fans ATX Mid Tower

  • SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

  • Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA Model AD-7240S-0B

  • Dell E207WFP widescreen LCD 20" 1680 x 1050


I unlocked the disabled cores using the unleashing mode from recent BIOS from ASUS. Also I increased the memory clock to 800MHz (CAS is 11). I must say the system performance is AWESOME!

Currently I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate RC from MSDN. I'm pretty impressed with the OS. So far I had two problems: Vim self-extracting installer fails (I used the zipped version which fails to install the context menu), and some java swing application seems to hang.