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Am i nuts to consider spending £800 on upgrading from a P4 NW [email protected] to an Opty 170?

Spudgun

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I currently run a p4 NW [email protected]. on stock volts on a P4C800 Deluxe with 2gb OCZ ram and an X850XTPE.

I have, however, been tempted to spend over £800 on an Opteron 170 and X1900XTX and an ASUS motherboard.

However, as i don't know anyone that runs AMD64 processors i am really hesitant on whether this is a sensible use of cash.

The main use of my PC is games playing, mostly FPS, but with the odd RTS and sports title thrown in. It would be essential for me, however, to run a very, very quiet rig as my current setup is nigh on silent and is full on zalman and silenx components.

If there is anyone out there that has made a similar upgrade is it really worth it?

Many thanks

Spudgun
 
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-118-AS) - This one. I have found my current ASUS board to be very good and have seen decent reviews of this one too
 
Spudgun said:
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-118-AS) - This one. I have found my current ASUS board to be very good and have seen decent reviews of this one too
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ive had this board 2 days...

lovely! :) does the business and its zippy too... as in fast
 
Thanks for the comments :)

How easy is it to keep an opteron cool when clocking it? I can run my current p4 clocked at 236fsb on default volts and with a zallam cooler running at 5v, i.e. it is next to silent
 
Spudgun said:
Thanks for the comments :)

How easy is it to keep an opteron cool when clocking it? I can run my current p4 clocked at 236fsb on default volts and with a zallam cooler running at 5v, i.e. it is next to silent
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Well oppies are server chips and use less volts, so they run cooler at stock and when overclocked compared to the desktop chips. Air coolers should be fine, like the Big Typhoon.
 
Clocking 170s is always fun... You will need good air cooling. Does noise fuss you much?

As for performance incease... You will love this upgrade! I've just gone from an 7800GTX 512Mb to an x1900xt-x and I LOVE IT!! Its much better quality, so you will most certainly see a performance gain!

So, in short;
1) Does noise bother you
2) What is your monitor?

Thanks,

Agent. :cool:
 
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