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Looking at an Opteron 165 How much improvement....

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Entai

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...would I expect to see over an X2 3000+ clocked at 2.5ghz?

I have been in the mood for an upgrade recently but did not want to go the whole hog and change motherboard etc, untill the quad core stuff is out and settled so maybe later on next year.

So limiting myself to just a processor upgrade these 165's seemed a good bet

I have seen some real good prices on opty 165's on our fav auction site, they are good steppings, they are advertised as doing 2.8-3.0 so should beat my 2.5 relatively easily.

Would there be much real world difference over mine?
I am assuming the bigger cache, would be a big bonus, and the extra 2-300 mhz should make a big difference.

So I am wondering if anyone here has followed a similar upgrade path and what where their findings please?

Cheers in advance for any info and advice.
 
iv gone from a 146 opty to a 170 so far so gd stuck at 2.4 atm tho :( rather gutted but for £130 if it does turn out to be usless no big loss

think iv solved the prob didnt like running 1/1 with the mem so mem is on a 5/6 divider now
 
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No point in moving to a 165 if your 3000 X2 will already do 2.5ghz. The Opty does have more cache but that's not too significant (it's the equivalent of 100mhz to 200mhz). The 165 should clock to around 2.6ghz or if you get a good one up to 3ghz. but on average you're looking at 2.6ghz to 2.8ghz. That's not a huge step up from what you have right now.
 
Hades said:
No point in moving to a 165 if your 3000 X2 will already do 2.5ghz. The Opty does have more cache but that's not too significant (it's the equivalent of 100mhz to 200mhz). The 165 should clock to around 2.6ghz or if you get a good one up to 3ghz. but on average you're looking at 2.6ghz to 2.8ghz. That's not a huge step up from what you have right now.
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Thats the single core perspective.

You'll have a lot more grunt when it comes to multitasking now, and any multithreaded apps will fly along nicely :)
 
PinkFloyd said:
Thats the single core perspective.

You'll have a lot more grunt when it comes to multitasking now, and any multithreaded apps will fly along nicely :)
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But he says he already has an X2?
 
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