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Opteron 144, 148 or 64 3800+ X2?

willhub

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Hi, I noticed the clearency section on Overclockers has got some good deals on, I was wondering, which opteron is better, 144 or 148? Do you think a 64 3800+ X2 would be better performance with games than the 144 and 148 opterons? and would either of these 3 CPU's greatly decrease the bottleneck between the gpu and cpu thats caused with my current 3700+?

Yes I know C2D is the best way to go, but those prices are so cheap, and I need a new CPU and it would be quicker to get an AMD.
 
Sounds good, found out my motherboard dont support opteron, only says Athlon 64/FX, bios update that adds support for 3800+ Dual core and E4 stepping. Would opteron work then?

How much better would performance actually be though, would it eliminate the times when my computer nearly freezes when transfering files or burning something onto DVD?

Also, I would have to keep the opteron at stock, this motherboard suks and if I overclock the CPU its gonna fry the ram.

Cant even find the Opteron 165..
 
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use a divider to keep the memory at stock and overclock. i got a x2 3800 for £65 and its at 2.8ghz currently. Great upgrade from opteron 146 at 2.8ghz. faster in a few games and windows multitasking is laods better.

eg installing a game whilst watching a film or unzipping something
 
I see, I dont think I can overclock though :(, I tried with my 3700+, got to 2.53Ghz, but the ram was at 230Mhz or 460Mhz DDR and no way to lower it :(.
 
willhub said:
Hi, I noticed the clearency section on Overclockers has got some good deals on, I was wondering, which opteron is better, 144 or 148? Do you think a 64 3800+ X2 would be better performance with games than the 144 and 148 opterons? and would either of these 3 CPU's greatly decrease the bottleneck between the gpu and cpu thats caused with my current 3700+?
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Unless you're going to overclock, almost all the cpu's you've listed are slower than your current 3700+ ( when you compare single core speeds ). The Opteron 148 would give you very similar / exactly the same performance to what you currently have. The other 2 would be slightly slower.

The X2 3800 ( or Opteron 165 ) would be faster in multi-threaded apps / games, but that's the only benefit

I'd imagine you'd need at least a 3ghz A64 to make a notice difference to your bottleneck ( I don't own a 8800GTS, so I'm just guessing here )
 
willhub said:
I see, I dont think I can overclock though :(, I tried with my 3700+, got to 2.53Ghz, but the ram was at 230Mhz or 460Mhz DDR and no way to lower it :(.
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There are a couple of Windows-based overclocking utilities ( NTune, Systool, A64Info ) that would let you lower your ram divider to make it run at a slower speed , but I've no idea how reliable they are.
 
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