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any sign of OCUK stocking the 175's or 180's or are we stuck the 170
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Opteron 175/180
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yea i am most likely going with the 170... cant buy it till next week though, probly wont be able to get hold of one by then, knowing my luck
Soldato
easyrider said:
Is it bang for buck though? X2 3800+'s are clocking to 2.5-2.7GHz for nearly £100 less, less cache I know but I wouldnt call £300 bang for buck, at all.
Tim said:
TBH not many x2 3800's are getting to 2.7ghz on stock vcore and air.
They need a good boost in vcore for those speeds which leads to an after market cooling solution.
Which all adds up.
The extra cache and the high speeds on low vcore are worth £100 more for the opty 170.You can add clock speed but you cannot add cache.
Infact its not really £100 between the two its less
And to say that a dual core opty running faster than an FX 60 costing £730 when the outlay is only £300 is not bang for buck is laughable IMO
I think the Opteron boat has sailed!
Not sure what AMD think of all these people buying what is meant to be their *server/workstation* class chip and overclocking the nuts off it. . .
Thing I don't understand is why the Opterons were so cheap (at one point anyway!) were they trying to entice IT managers into upgrading to the new Opterons at a good price?
X2 = Fred Blogs
Opteron= Professional yada yada
If some more Opterons come back into stock around the UK, do you think AMD will increase the price to a level where it makes the X2's a more compelling choice?
Why on earth did they release a chip that would damage sales of their X2 line?
Soldato
It's only enthusiasts though - the vast majority of people will buy an X2/A64 and ignore the Opterons completely
I think they released the 1xx Opterons on Socket 939 to reduce the entry price point to steal sales from the lower end workstations using P4s as well as the higher end stuff using Xeons
I think they released the 1xx Opterons on Socket 939 to reduce the entry price point to steal sales from the lower end workstations using P4s as well as the higher end stuff using Xeons
Yep - the server/workstation is a massive market - and AMD would dearly love to knock Intel off its game - competitive pricing is always trick one! Guess they didn't expect us to be watching so closely - expecially after the first batch of single core opty's turned out to be monsters!