Opty 144 (1.8GHz 1MB L2) equivilent to which A64?

[Bleek]

Hi guys, not really been paying much attention to the CPU market in the past months and was interested to know what Ath 64 you'd compare (at stock speeds) the Opty 144 to?

Thanks in advance.

PS: can't overclock the opty as my Crucial 3200 might complain.

 

[lee87]

This would be the same as a A64 3200+ at stock speeds.

You can still overclock the opty, just put the ram on a divider.

 

[Bleek]

This would be the same as a A64 3200+ at stock speeds.

You can still overclock the opty, just put the ram on a divider.

Oh sugar, good point!

Does the 3200 run at 1.8GHz? It will only be 512k so that will bump the performance of the Opty quite some.

Either way it'll be better the my ageing [email protected], its not feeding my 6800Ultra enough juice - I can underclock the Ultra and hit the same bench scores.

 

[lee87]

The 3200+ runs at 2ghz. IIRC the extra cache on the opty is the same as an extra 200mhz.

 

[Bleek]

The 3200+ runs at 2ghz. IIRC the extra cache on the opty is the same as an extra 200mhz.

Ok m8, thanks.

 

[Havana_UK]

All of the Opteron UP 1xx chips use the San Diego core.

The San Diego core also is used in the socket 939 A64 3700+, 4000+, some later FX55s & FX57.

The 3700+ runs at 2.2GHz, the 4000+ at 2.4GHz, the FX55 at 2.6GHz and the FX57 at 2.8GHz.

3700+ uses a x11 multiplier, 4000+ uses a x12 multiplier, FX55 used a x13 multiplier & FX57 uses a x14 multiplier.

FX55 & FX57 have fully unlocked multipliers, meaning you can raise them or lower them. 3700+ and 4000+ multipliers are only adjustable downwards, or up to their default x11 & x12 respectively.

With a x9 (upwards locked) multiplier, the Opteron UP 144 is not really equivalent to any of the San Diego A64s, but this doesn't mean it won't clock better! At it default speed, it performance rating is probably 3300.

With the right motherboard (DFI probably the best choice) you could realisticly achieve a 2.7GHz+ clock speed.

Cheers,
Hav

 

[Bleek]

Well I can currently run all new games on full detail 1280x1024 (2xAA) without to much problem, the odd bit of frame drop below say 25fps does occur but mainly its 60+ in games such as FEAR.

So a Opty at stock will definately improve that, I guess a mild overclock to 2.5GHz coupled with my 6800Ultra will be more then suffice.

I'm going for the DFI Nforce3 board as it uses an AGP port, yes its older tech but from benchs I've seen its not far off the more modern chipsets in real-world terms.

 

[fester]

Try the asrock dual sata II cheaper and has a pci x16 as well as agp x8 and overclocks well up to 274 mhz on the standard bios 1.6 and a lot more on a ocw
mod bios.