FX55

[Jschmuck2]

Huh?!?! Huh??!?!? Anyone? Did anyone else pay way too much money for a chip like me?

 

[Arkaign]

I have a customer that brought in an Alienware system that had an FX-55 and two 80gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Sata drives, and a 6800 something-or-other. Was sad, the thing weighed like 10,000lbs, was ugly beyond belief, and is pretty slow by modern standards. The guy was shocked when I showed him that he could grab a socket 939 Opteron or X2 chip for $100ish, and step up a bit, when the FX-55 was originally like $1,000+.

Ah well, I bet you've gotten many hundreds/thousands of good computing hours out of that sucker, which makes it pretty decent in the end. Probably around the same time you got that Fx-55, I grabbed a cheap PD-805 and overclocked it to hades, had some fun with that. I only keep things for a few weeks at a time usually, though.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I remember being so tempted by the FX-55 and FX-57, just to say I had a top-of-the-line chip. I'm glad I went with the X2 4200+. Not only did it perform better in multi-tasking, it's also still a great processor today.

Too bad 939 died out fairly quickly after I built that machine.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Yeahhhhhhhhh no kidding It was nice to be top of the heap for a while - gotta say though, old bessie still holds up pretty well today. She'll go the way of dodo when the next round of C2Ds come out.

 

[m21s]

*raises hand*

 

[bryanW1995]

I still have one, but I'm not using it currently. I have 3 939 chips: fx55, A64 4000+, and opteron 180. I just put the 4000+ in a rig, and I'm planning to rebuild my opteron 180 rig as soon as my replacement hd and new pci e video card show up. That leaves the fx55 on the "for sale" block...

 

[Jschmuck2]

How much you looking to sell your 55 for Bryan?

 

[Rumple]

I had an FX-55 until yesterday when i built my new rig. But i got in on the deal about a year ago when Newegg was selling them for $139!!!

 

[Jschmuck2]

Hey, only about 650 less than I paid for mine =P

 

[bryanW1995]

yeah, I paid $200 for mine. less than a month later they were 129!!

 

[E6700]

i remembered paid $860 for that baby

 

[George Powell]

I very nearly bought one when they were first released, but the retailer went out of stock so I cancelled my order. Got a 4000+ instead, which I only kept for about 8 months.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

the game rig has an FX60 - i started out with an opteron 170 and had it up to 3.0GHz running 2.2.2.5 1T; the FX 60 is 3.06GHz at 2.2.2.5 1T

wanna know the truth? my old i850 3.06 hyper threading Northwood using Rambus memory feels faster which i bought in 01 (RDR memory)

 

[Pain999]

I got a FX-55 1 year ago for $129. I love how easy it is to just change the multiplier to x14 and run it at 2.8GHz. Along with a 8800GTS/640MB it runs every current game very well on my 22" LCD so I don't see any reason to upgrade to some dual core for little to no advantage. Even the games that supposedly have dual core optimizations are not really gaining much by it yet that a fast single core can't do just as well or better than a lower clocked dual core. Maybe things will change when Crysis comes out and I will finally have a reason to upgrade, but I doubt it. I am sure some business applications gain speed by having dual core, but somehow I have managed to even do word processing on a single core + if you can believe this... a spreadsheet at the same time!

 

[uclaLabrat]

I paid $212 for my 3700+ in Jan 06, it's running at 2.8G for about a year or so.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Originally posted by: Pain999
I got a FX-55 1 year ago for $129. I love how easy it is to just change the multiplier to x14 and run it at 2.8GHz. Along with a 8800GTS/640MB it runs every current game very well on my 22" LCD so I don't see any reason to upgrade to some dual core for little to no advantage. Even the games that supposedly have dual core optimizations are not really gaining much by it yet that a fast single core can't do just as well or better than a lower clocked dual core. Maybe things will change when Crysis comes out and I will finally have a reason to upgrade, but I doubt it. I am sure some business applications gain speed by having dual core, but somehow I have managed to even do word processing on a single core + if you can believe this... a spreadsheet at the same time!

I just bumped my mutli up to 14 too! An quick and easy overclock. Have you been able to get your chip up past 2.8? I've tried knocking the multi up to 15 with no success.

 

[bryanW1995]

I could never post at 14.5 multi on mine.

 

[Bill Brasky]

I got in on the newegg deal as well, but now I'm bitter about not going dual-core. My problem is that I'm having trouble justifying a $235 Opteron 185 when an E6850 can be had for $280. Ugg.

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2

Originally posted by: Pain999
I got a FX-55 1 year ago for $129. I love how easy it is to just change the multiplier to x14 and run it at 2.8GHz. Along with a 8800GTS/640MB it runs every current game very well on my 22" LCD so I don't see any reason to upgrade to some dual core for little to no advantage. Even the games that supposedly have dual core optimizations are not really gaining much by it yet that a fast single core can't do just as well or better than a lower clocked dual core. Maybe things will change when Crysis comes out and I will finally have a reason to upgrade, but I doubt it. I am sure some business applications gain speed by having dual core, but somehow I have managed to even do word processing on a single core + if you can believe this... a spreadsheet at the same time!

I just bumped my mutli up to 14 too! An quick and easy overclock. Have you been able to get your chip up past 2.8? I've tried knocking the multi up to 15 with no success.

I can get 2970 at ~1.48V in the winter, but it just runs too hot for that voltage year round.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Funny I had heard tell of people getting their 55s up to 3ghz

 

[Rockhound1]

Got my FX-55 last year when Newegg was having their deal on them ($129 I believe). I am still happy with it. I upped it from 2.6 GHz to 3 GHz, then backed it back down to 2.6 GHz. I don't need to run it at 3 GHz - it already does everything I need it to at 2.6 GHz. I am sure it will last me until K10 (quadcore) is out on AM3 with DDR3. Then I will probably upgrade my system.

I love the fact that its multiplier is unlocked!! Much easier than messing with the FSB settings.

 

[bryanW1995]

I had it in a k8n neo 4 platinum and didn't know anything about oc'ing at the time. I usually ran it around 2.88 at stock vcore, so that wasn't too bad. Also, I had mismatched memory and bad airflow...as I said, I didn't know how to oc right. If I did it again I'm certain that I'd get 3.0 or better, I just don't want to buy a new board for it now. I'd rather sell it and let somebody with an older s939 chip get a nice upgrade to tide him over for a year or two.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

yep, i have a $139 FX-55 and been running it at 2.8 14x multi as soon as I built it a long time ago. does everything i need it to do so i can hardly consider it 'obsolete'

although, i can't multitask when CPU is pegged at 100% like encoding stuff in nero.....so i just do stuff on my other computers or laptop.

 

[Pain999]

My FX55 will do 2.9 GHz but it runs so much hotter than at 2.8 that I don't feel it is worth pushing it that hard. 2.6 to 2.8 did not increase the temp hardly at all. I know it can't do 3.0 totally stable in all games.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

Originally posted by: Pain999
My FX55 will do 2.9 GHz but it runs so much hotter than at 2.8 that I don't feel it is worth pushing it that hard. 2.6 to 2.8 did not increase the temp hardly at all. I know it can't do 3.0 totally stable in all games.

what cooling are u using?

i put a tuniq tower on mine and it can run prime stable at 2.9 as long as my side case panel is off.

once i have the case all enclosed then it can only do 2.9 prime stable for 3 hours.

so i decided to just run it at 2.8; all voltages at stock.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
I got in on the newegg deal as well, but now I'm bitter about not going dual-core. My problem is that I'm having trouble justifying a $235 Opteron 185 when an E6850 can be had for $280. Ugg.

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2

Originally posted by: Pain999
I got a FX-55 1 year ago for $129. I love how easy it is to just change the multiplier to x14 and run it at 2.8GHz. Along with a 8800GTS/640MB it runs every current game very well on my 22" LCD so I don't see any reason to upgrade to some dual core for little to no advantage. Even the games that supposedly have dual core optimizations are not really gaining much by it yet that a fast single core can't do just as well or better than a lower clocked dual core. Maybe things will change when Crysis comes out and I will finally have a reason to upgrade, but I doubt it. I am sure some business applications gain speed by having dual core, but somehow I have managed to even do word processing on a single core + if you can believe this... a spreadsheet at the same time!

I just bumped my mutli up to 14 too! An quick and easy overclock. Have you been able to get your chip up past 2.8? I've tried knocking the multi up to 15 with no success.

I can get 2970 at ~1.48V in the winter, but it just runs too hot for that voltage year round.

don't waste your money on the opteron 185. I blew my k8n neo 4 platinum trying to upgrade from fx55 to opteron 180. Just use the fx55 at 2.8 until you start having problems and do a complete upgrade. If you're lucky you'll be able to hold out until nehalem...I wish I had been disciplined enough to do that.