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(10-29-2010, 03:46 PM)MrTangoWhisky Wrote: As you can read in several threads about theses MCP61 boards we had some issues with the Athlon II...
But the Phenom I and II are working fine unless their TDP is lower than 85W...
Thanks for reply MrTango. The athlon II x2 245 was tested by one guy from the forum and reported that it's runing good and very fast + the TDP of athlon II 245 is 65W, so lower that Phenom I/II.
Didn't remember that you did yourself the athlon II x2 245 test on this board (with the abit bios image) and you reported it was fast
(03-06-2010, 04:35 PM)MrTangoWhisky Wrote: So now here's my report:
I tested several different OEM-BIOSes befor eI got here. But from that day off it changed my life! Now I tried all the different modded BIOSes for the Elitegroup ECS MCP61P-platform and its OEM-subversions like the MCP61PM-AM for Acer or Gateway/Packard-Bell, the MCP61PM-HM for Hewlett-Packard and the MCP61PM-GM for whoever. I even found a foxconn-version of this board and also this abit whatever TheWiz is talkin' 'bout but just a little later. He was such as fast that I was surprised with a modded version of this BIOS exectly when I wanted to tell him, what I've found!
So I also tried this modded BIOS and I was more than just happy! Some of the other BIOSes had the OC-functions, some the updated proc-support and one of'em crashed because it didn't want to recognized any proc but this one was so surprisingly good, it had both, it was stable and it supported every proc I got for testing...
I have the Acer-version MCP61PM-AM Rev. 1 HT2000 with 4x1 Gb OCZ Value-RAM, NVidia GeForce GTS 250 GX2 2048, Samsung SpinPoint SPN anything 1Tb SATA II HDD and an LG SATA II DVD-RAM-drive (It is a little late here, I was at school to learn for my private pilot license and I'm doing some planning for a party on saturday 13th so forgive me, I do not give it a closer look!).
All the problems I got was the measured TDP-limit of 103 W, in reality it even not gets the 95 W TDP needed for some newer 45nm-AMD-procs. The highest long-time TDP is about 80 W. Think about: Your OS must be able to load the cool'n'quiet-driver to lower the speed/consumption before the PC crashes down and reboots.
At the moment it works fine, fast and stable with an AMD Phenom (I) X4 9500 @ 2400MHz with 72 measured Watts!!!
Here is a list of procs, i tested:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (stock installed in Acer Aspire E380 wich was the former source of this board for me!)
Athlon II X2 245 (fast!!)
Athlon II X4 605e (no TDP-Prob, just not really fast!)
Phenom X4 9100 (fast, but not to and not so easy to get one!)
Phenom X4 9500 (the old 65 W TDP-one, really fast!!!)
Phenom X4 9750 Black Edition (slow 'cause of TDP!)
Phenom II X4 925 (no TDP-Prob, just not really fast!)
Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (slow 'cause of TDP!)
As you can see I have proven the Phenom 9500 is the best value (30751 @ 3DMark Vantage 1.0.2 CPU is great isn't it?) but all of the X2 and X4 will work, eventhough not all do it fast or stable. The procs that weren't fast also weren't stable. They could but they do not have to boot correctly, I think it depends on the transistors, consistors and the power supply whatever you like!
I hope this helps you all a bit and everyone is now able to confirm my experience! Thanks TheWiz, thanks 1234s282!! Have a nice day like I had!!
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and in my bios dont found write protection ...
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