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Soldato
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Hey guys,

I don’t really want to do a ‘big’ upgrade till the end of the year, when Vista has really started to settle down :p

I was basically just hoping to upgrade my CPU; currently got a Opty 146 running at 2.6GHz.

I’ve had a look at it seems the 939’s are really starting to dry up, so before they do, what would be my best bet for an upgrade: dual-core preferably – what overclocks well etc? I have good quality memory, so that shouldn’t be a problem ;)

Cheers,

SW.
 
sam.wheale said:
Hey guys,

I don’t really want to do a ‘big’ upgrade till the end of the year, when Vista has really started to settle down :p

I was basically just hoping to upgrade my CPU; currently got a Opty 146 running at 2.6GHz.

I’ve had a look at it seems the 939’s are really starting to dry up, so before they do, what would be my best bet for an upgrade: dual-core preferably – what overclocks well etc? I have good quality memory, so that shouldn’t be a problem ;)

Cheers,

SW.
if you have a decent board (that can hit high fsb's), then i would say the £99 opteron 165's are a steal.
 
Thanks mate -

What kind of O/c would i be able to expect with a good chip/config :)

Cheers,

SW.
 
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It might be worth selling it all and upgrading now.. I sold my old 939 rig and upgraded to a Conroe rig. I ended up about £50 in pocket! Was well worth it, got a better PC and extra money that I ended up putting towards watercooling for it. :)
 
Sold my opteron 146 for £40 and got a X2 3800+ for £65. Its currently at 2.8ghz and is stable in orthos. It will boot and play some games (not all) with a volt bump at 3ghz but the temps were too high
 
Is the Opty 165 still the best value though?

Is the 170 worth the extra 20 :p

Cheers,

SW.
 
Looking at your motherboard, I'd say get the Opteron 170. The 165 will need high HTT's to clock to and in excess of 2.6GHz. The opteron 165 has a 9x multi and if, hypothetically speaking your board doesn't like HTT's over 260, you're stuck around 2.3GHz with a Opteron 165, versus 2.6GHz on the 170 (10x multi) :)
 
Mul said:
Looking at your motherboard, I'd say get the Opteron 170. The 165 will need high HTT's to clock to and in excess of 2.6GHz. The opteron 165 has a 9x multi and if, hypothetically speaking your board doesn't like HTT's over 260, you're stuck around 2.3GHz with a Opteron 165, versus 2.6GHz on the 170 (10x multi) :)

or 3ghz on a x2 3800 with decent air. around £70 I reckon mine would be stable on that ninja thing or tunic tower is it?
 
If your fsb max's around 260mhz then a 4200 X2 may be your best bet. That has an 11x multi which could take you to 2.86ghz (11 x 260). ;)

Those will be around Opteron 170 prices so you'll have to choose between lower clocks and 1mb cache per core (Opty 170) or higher clocks and only 512kb per core (4200 X2).

(If funds are really limited then, as Geeza says, the 3800 X2 is a good option for you. However, it may only yeald 2.6ghz speeds on you mobo.)

Any would be a worthy upgrade! :)

gt
 
not sure how much the 4400x2's are going for these days but I got mine to 3.03ghz on cheapo watercooling. 2.9ghz on air
 
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