Customer Reviews
Wrong product shipped, No refunds 
2008-07-20
Tiger Direct shows the picture and describes the older Socket 939 version of this Athlon 64 X2 processor, but it is not what is shipped. What you actually get is the newer Socket AM2 version of the same CPU. It will not fit in a Socket 939 because it has one or two additional pins which prevent it from going in. If you are looking for the X2 4400+ for Socket AM2, buy this but verify that your motherboard supports it - Tiger will not accept a return of CPU. The price is great for what you receive. This is also the 65W (lower power) version which saves energy.
Awesome Processor!!! 
2008-07-11
This is a very good processor you can buy, it works very quiet. Works faster than I think and I install first with Windows XP, but the computer run to fast, so I install Windows Vista and its the same, works very fast.
Powerful CPU - Good Price 2008-06-09
Truly a good CPU, I've bought two of these over the last 6 months, one for myself and another to rebuild a machine for a friend of mine and they perform extremely well with the following specs -
2 GB RAM
750 GB SATA II Segate Hard Drive
Nforce 6 Chipset Mainboard
256 MB Nvidia 7600GT (an oldie, but a goodie!)
16x LiteON DVD-RW drive
I use the stock cooler, never had any problems with overheating. Both my friend and I are Warcraft III fans and this CPU does a good job of handing the bigger battles without the lag we'd see with our older CPU's.
Game settings -
1280x1024 all details set to HIGH ;-)
Great Performance at Excellent Price 2008-05-09
I used this CPU in two systems and proved to be the best performer at this price. You get the performance of Intel e4500 for almost half the price. I used it with GA-MA69VM-S2 for both systems and one of them is XP and the other is Vista. Both were running flawlessly. I used DDR2-800MHz. I only had to set the CPU Bus Speed to 209MZ to let the RAM run at full 800MHz speed which will put the CPU at 2.4GHz speed without any need to increase the Core Voltage.
not a socket 939 2008-04-20
i was very excited today to have receive the processor for my socket 939 motherboard. when i opened the package i was disappointed to discover that i had been sent a socket AM2 processor instead. it was a great price, i guess too good to be true. if you have a socket AM2 motherboard i highly suggest jumping on this deal.
Athlon 64 X2 rocks!! 2008-04-06
Multi-tasking has become a way of life, but sometimes your PC just can't keep up with everything you want to do on it at the same time. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor enables true multitasking - taking computing to an all new level. Dual-Core technology is like having two processors working together, each one taking care of different applications. So now you can simultaneously burn a CD, check e-mail, edit a digital photo, and run your virus protection - all without slowing down your computer.To protect your computer you've installed all the latest virus protection and firewall software. The result? Your PC is safer but slower. Upgrade to a computer powered by the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor - now you can run protection programs in the background while a second runs the applications you want to work on - making computing fast again.
Bad product copy and Wrong picture shown 2008-02-14
The product copy describes a socket 939 processor and the picture is of a socket 939 processor. What you get is a socket AM2. I suggest buying a processor only from a vendor who can give you the serial number.
Loving it 2008-01-26
I began building AMD systems a couple years back with the AMD 64 3000+, which really was revolutionary in its way, fast and not too much heat, with overclocking potential when necessary. Since then, I've graduated to successive generations, the 3700, the FX-55, the LE-1620 (a low energy 45 watt processor to save electricity) and now the X2-4400.
Like all AMD processors, installed without any problems. If you are timid about installing a processor yourself...don't be. It is not difficult. A child could do it. The only catch is, you need to do your homework, and make sure the motherboard supports the same socket as your processor. Now here with X2 4400, what you need is an "AM2" socket motherboard. The combo they are offering with the MSI board is indeed an AM2. In fact, I own that motherboard...and am pleased with its several features. That particular motherboard installed faster and with less problems than any I've ever had. Though I have not tried on-board sound. MSI has had issues with on-board sound on other motherboards. That's the only chink in the armor of an otherwise outstanding motherboard manufacturer...
You may ask yourself, in fact you should ask yourself, do I *need* a dual core system? Well, at these prices, why not? You certainly would not save much cash opting for a single core, nor would you save much electricity, unless you went with a 45 watt uniprocessor, which I did for my htpc system (it truly does not need dual core, only running music or video over there, no games).
Here's my short and skinny. If you go dual core, be sure to either be using Windows 2000, XP or some OS that takes maximum advantage of it. Also, I would deduct points from my estimate of your knowledge if you go with less than 2 gigs of ram. Why? Because RAM is cheap, nowadays, dirt cheap as a matter of fact, and you get way big bang for your buck with additional memory, through less hard drive access, bigger caches, bigger video memory, etc. the list goes on and on. In fact, if you had to choose between the two, I would go with more memory, and less processor. Today's standard is 2 x 1gb in Dual Channel mode, and why not get DDR-800, which is as fast as that MSI board (above) supports...at most it will just be a few bucks more expensive than DDR-667. Cough it up man. Don't shortchange your computer. Think of all it does for you.
Now, if you go look at DELL, instead of patronizing your friendly neighborhood system builder, they will be pushing the faster processors, and loading their machine with 1 gb of slow ram, and Windows VISTA, which to my mind equates to a dog-slow computer, with lots of hard drive accessing going on. No, you do not want VISTA, not now, maybe not until Service Pack 10, if that. And 1 gb of ram is a joke with VISTA...not a very funny one either. I see that you can upgrade ram in DELL, but they want like $50 and up for a little more ram, whereas I can get 2 x 1 gb for way less than $50. I have never bought DELL and never intend to do so... They are carving the margins, and will snare the unwary. Oh isn't it generous of them to include a 56K modem and a 3.5" floppy drive? And those of you who think DELL means made in America, think again, your money goes overseas.
Excellent Choice 2007-12-17
I previously owned an AMD3200 CPU and thought it was good.
Well, tried this one and it's great!
Cool and Quiet does just that queeps the CPU cool and the fan in quite silent.
I Highly recommend this processor.
Next upgrade, will be a BExxx low power CPU.
Exelent! 2007-12-13
This exelent product! great performance!. But the box used for shipping was to big for international and that increased my shipping cost.
