X4 9850 Black Edition

**Brucifer** · 08-09-2008, 07:08 PM

Well I just ate up one power supply on the 9850. So I went out and bought an Antec 650watt earthpower bugger. All I have in the system is the m/b, cpu, and the HD. It is running on the internal video, no fancy add-in card.

**Jason1478963** · 08-09-2008, 11:14 PM

I'm running my 9850 on a 500 watt liberty enermax at the moment. I'm not sure how well it would do if I started crunching with the 4850 GPU in there. I think if I try crossfire I would need to upgrade the power supply as well. I hope you have better luck this time around Brucifer.

**Brucifer** · 08-10-2008, 06:10 PM

Yep, it is much happier with the 650 Antec Earthwatt p/s. Less overall heat coming off it too now.

Output wise on D2OL with no overclocking it is putting out just a smidge over a q6600.

On running LLRNET I was getting .4+ms per itteration on a q6600 and .8+ per itteration on the 9850 running the same number ranges from the same server. I have not tried sieving. So the Intel is still the superior choice for running LLR/LLRNET.

I have played with no boinc projects, nor have I tried the 9850 on moneybee yet.

So as things sit now, all in all, I'm pretty happy with the Phenom. I was hoping that it would do better on the llrnet stuff but evidently we are still running differently due to the memory access design issues. I would not really expect overclocking to accomplish much on llrnet. As for D2OL, overclocking would improve the output there. But as this stuff is already costing a penney or two now, I'm not really into shortening the cpu life or introducing the possibility of crunching result instability into projects I contribute to.

And while AMD did sell this chip unlocked, I would like to believe that they took the most advantageous overall clock rate into account in deciding where to set the stock clock rate.