opteron 148

[johndixon]

I have an opteron 148, which overclocks pretty good, my question is, is the Amd dual core 4400 (939) clockable, and would it be any faster than my Opty?


John

 

[Banjo]

Hi,

I doubt unless you're lucky with the stepping you could clock the A64 4400x2 to more than 2.8GHz but you'd definitely notice the improvement going from single core to dual core.

Look at this thread to see what sort of overclocks other people are getting, although I wouldn't base your own ideas of how far it'll go on this thread alone:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17737313
Obviously no 2 CPU's are exactly the same so you could (if you're unlucky) find that yours will only go so high and refuse to go higher.

Banjo ;_;

 

[johndixon]

Hi,

I doubt unless you're lucky with the stepping you could clock the A64 4400x2 to more than 2.8GHz but you'd definitely notice the improvement going from single core to dual core.

Look at this thread to see what sort of overclocks other people are getting, although I wouldn't base your own ideas of how far it'll go on this thread alone:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17737313
Obviously no 2 CPU's are exactly the same so you could (if you're unlucky) find that yours will only go so high and refuse to go higher.

Banjo ;_;

Thanks Banjo


John

 

[El Jimben]

I think that you'd be better of getting an Opty 165/170 with a decent stepping tbh

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=96900

 

[gt_junkie]

I think that you'd be better of getting an Opty 165/170 with a decent stepping tbh

Agreed,

My 165 cost me £70 second hand when 4400+ X2's were £160. Along with my DFI SLI-DR i saw 2.95ghz with the chip under a lapped big typhoon. Incidentally i hadn't even removed the IHS!

For 24/7 use i throttled it to 2.8ghz which meant temps never went over 54 degrees C.

A 1ghz (EASY) overclock was nothing to sniff at considering the price.

gt

 

[johndixon]

Agreed,

My 165 cost me £70 second hand when 4400+ X2's were £160. Along with my DFI SLI-DR i saw 2.95ghz with the chip under a lapped big typhoon. Incidentally i hadn't even removed the IHS!

For 24/7 use i throttled it to 2.8ghz which meant temps never went over 54 degrees C.

A 1ghz (EASY) overclock was nothing to sniff at considering the price.

gt

Thanks,

Are Opty 165's dual core?

John

 

[deadeyedic30]

Yes

 

[gt_junkie]

Thanks,

Are Opty 165's dual core?

John

Yup... and like the 4400+ X2's they also have 1mb of L2 cache per core rather than the 512kb L2 of the lower end X2's (3800+, 4200+ and 4600+).

Although it wasn't the 'be all' and 'end all' many people said the extra cache was worth 200mhz extra. The 165's need good boards to clock since they only have a 9x multi. But if you find a good one 'by gum' do they clock well!

gt

 

[Sparky]

I could have sworn my 165 had a higher multi than 7

 

[gt_junkie]

I could have sworn my 165 had a higher multi than 7

Yeah me too...

Doh!

All edited! Damn e6300's and their titchy multi's!

Thanks for the heads up nuTs!

gt

 

[Sparky]

No worries.

OP checkout the Opty price reduction thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17738554