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Anyone got a recent x2 3800 from ocuk ?

dC2006

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As title says, anyone remember what the stepping code was ? wanna google the stepping to find out its overclocking ability. Got mine ordered already :D
 
Cyber-Mav said:
you can be the test subject for us all.
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I was thinking the same thing !

Yet another 146 user on a asrock dual sata2 wanting to upgrade to x2 3800.

Respect man !

I would like a nice opteron 170 or 180 but there stupid money !
 
I'll probably wait til after the 24th as there is some price cuts coming.

Recently sold my spare Opteron 144 CAB2E 540FPMW at £87 on a popular auction site, so that money will go towards financing a x2 3800 and then I'll see what my 146 will go for.

Just recently found my 2400xp mobile barton and a 2500 barton socket A so may have a go at flogging these also as there both pretty good clockers. Although may have to give the old mobile one last go with my Geil tccd one ram and see how far I can get it with air. It used to do 2600mhz with rubbish old ram.
 
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Im in need of a cpu upgrade (i have a good spec apart from my 3000+ winnie which is really holding my 1800xt back:()

Question though. What would a normal a64 chip i.e winnie, venice need to be clocked at to match a x3800 x2 @ stoc speed?

Thanks
 
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Make that 8 :D

Ice Rich said:
Question though. What would a normal a64 chip i.e winnie, venice need to be clocked at to match a x3800 x2 @ stoc speed?
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At a guess I'd say around 2.5Ghz.. Maybe more actually.
 
naffa said:
Make that 8 :D


At a guess I'd say around 2.5Ghz.. Maybe more actually.
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Was hoping it would be more then that. I can reach that with my Winnie.

So even if I overclock the x2 - at best im looking at a 300mhz upgrade.
 
Ice Rich said:
Was hoping it would be more then that. I can reach that with my Winnie.

So even if I overclock the x2 - at best im looking at a 300mhz upgrade.
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errm no.

a normal A64 at 2.5ghz will be the same speed as an x2 at 2.5ghz in single core applications/games.
in a multithreaded application/game the x2 will be a LOT faster - upto 80-90% faster (because there are 2 processors in action now)
 
ferrettoes said:
why buy a turdy processor like that when u can get a conroe for the same price that will mince it performance wise ;D
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because then you gotta upgrade the motherboard and RAM as well maybe? Starts to get expensive
 
aardvark said:
errm no.

a normal A64 at 2.5ghz will be the same speed as an x2 at 2.5ghz in single core applications/games.
in a multithreaded application/game the x2 will be a LOT faster - upto 80-90% faster (because there are 2 processors in action now)
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erm no - the Venice is better than the Manchester at 'some' single threaded applications as the Manchester is better at 'some'. Saying they're the same isn't right. But with multitasking and apps/games that make use of multiple cores the X2 will win hands down.
 
naffa said:
erm no - the Venice is better than the Manchester at 'some' single threaded applications as the Manchester is better at 'some'. Saying they're the same isn't right. But with multitasking and apps/games that make use of multiple cores the X2 will win hands down.
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nope, assuming they have the same size cache (which they should do if you are comparing like with like) then there is no difference between manchester and venice at the same clock speed.
 
 
 
From a recent post by gibbo, it seems ocuk are sourcing 939 x2 cpu`s from six different suppliers, so steppings are likely to vary, and thus give different oc`ing results... just hope mine is good one :D
 
It's Apples and Oranges - depends on what you are wanting to use it for

you cannot say one is considerably better than the other without specifying what areas you are interested in
 
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