Opterons 165 & 170 < - Gibbo

Devious · 18 Jan 2006 at 20:26

hedgey said:
arrived at last. evaded C&E now the fun starts[/IMG]

Nice chip wish i had mine already

. How did you get around C&E ?

hedgey · 18 Jan 2006 at 20:46

luck

voodooflux · 19 Jan 2006 at 00:06

Bito said:
There's a place selling the Opteron 170, in stock for.....£337 + vat

Crikey - I got my 175 for £340 inc VAT.

cheers
v.f.

hedgey · 19 Jan 2006 at 00:50

29c idle now, more reasonable. mustve mismounted the heatsink before. now i can start oc

aphex · 19 Jan 2006 at 00:58

Hey hedgey how far does your 165 o/c? and how many volts have you put through it so far?

kbc · 19 Jan 2006 at 02:05

Lucky you hedgey, push that thing hard...

Should be able to reach at least 2.4GHz.

Always wanted an Opteron but the wait seriously got to me since late November.

hedgey · 19 Jan 2006 at 03:53

2.5 @ 1.35, 33c

need to flash bios to go higher.

saffyre · 19 Jan 2006 at 13:57

heh 1.35 volts

thats awesome. Would prob do 3ghz easy. I NEED ONE.

Nixeh · 19 Jan 2006 at 16:21

hhmm maybe we should take his silence as a sign that he wasnt able to strike a deal.

saffyre · 19 Jan 2006 at 17:11

:S hope he does got my heart set on one now.

grizzla · 19 Jan 2006 at 18:43

I am about to build a new system and want an opteron 175, hope you can get hold of 'em.

hedgey · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:01

my memory fails memtest at default speed so its going back. damn ballistix.

aphex · 19 Jan 2006 at 19:05

I don't think I've heard anything but bad news about Ballistix lol

Solouko · 19 Jan 2006 at 20:53

Thechnicaly you're more likly to hear bad things about it because people complain and ask "what the hell am i doing wrong?" when it does go wrong

anyway, back to topic... i personal dont see the point in geting a 165 or higher when there raraty maks them about as economical to get as a 4400+ and dont have a unlocked multi... now i'm no OC expert but doesnt that make it harder to clock your memory?

ajgoodfellow · 19 Jan 2006 at 21:36

Are you implying that the 165 has an unlocked multiplier? It's not clear from your post! The 165, like the X2, is only unlocked downwards not upwards. The only chips that are fully unlocked are the FX chips

You can still easily overclock your memory with a fully unlocked chip - just use a lower multiplier

hedgey · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:03

limited to 274 by 1.50 bios.

Nixeh · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:06

Hmm i wonder if amd sent the boys round to gibbos place when he tried to get them to give ocuk the optys.

Would be good for some info.

Minstadave · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:06

Change your CPU-Z screenie to a jpeg, that image is over half a meg :eek:

atmadden · 23 Jan 2006 at 22:01

Just setup my new rig opteron 165 CCB1E 0550 on a K8n sli platinum straight in at 9x300 at stock been dual priming for 2 hours so far at 38c load with a swiftech ultra watercooling.

Solouko · 24 Jan 2006 at 00:39

ajgoodfellow said:
Are you implying that the 165 has an unlocked multiplier? It's not clear from your post! The 165, like the X2, is only unlocked downwards not upwards. The only chips that are fully unlocked are the FX chips

You can still easily overclock your memory with a fully unlocked chip - just use a lower multiplier

no i meat that the X2 is downwardly unlocked, but i thought that the opterons were all fully locked :confused:

locked at arround X13 or X11

and all the Ocing guides i've read say you should lower the multi first