OPTY 165 or OPTY 185

[Gliding_Nut]

Sorry to start another thread on these, but I dont think this has been answered anywhere else!

I (along with most of the UK it seems!) have been trawling the darkest corners of the net for retailers with confirmed stocks of Opterons in order to try and give a few more months of life to my S939 motherboard.

I'm told that the 165 is the best value one, but all I can find for sale (at a premium!) is the 185. How does this compare please, I've been warned that 170s are not reliable overclockers but what about the 185. Presumably its already equivalent spec to an overclocked 165...??

Any help appreciated - I'm trying to postpone the move to C2D Conroe until later this year if possible!

Thanks,

 

[Gliding_Nut]

Still searching for that certain place....

 

[Gliding_Nut]

Purely hypothetically and in the interests of academic research only of course, if I happened to be using a certain search engine what search criteria would you use to find out a lot of information about Opteron 165s....?

 

[Gliding_Nut]

£110.02 indeed...!!!

 

[Gliding_Nut]

Having now sourced an Opty 165, back to my original question - how does a 165 compare to a 185 when it comes to performance etc. I know it should be a good overclocker, but I am a bit worried that at stock it seems very slow (1.8 GHz) compared to my existing AMD 64 3500.

Cheers,

 

[Gliding_Nut]

I'm expecting my Opty 165 to arrive later this week, although starting to wonder if it was a good buying seeing as OC now have x2 4400s in stock!

Can anyone give me (a newbie to overclocking) some hints as to what I should be increasing and how on a Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI mobo to get the best out of my new CPU. At present I only overclock my 3500 using the Gigabyte utility when I'm actually gaming.

Thanks,

 

[Gliding_Nut]

Wow these sound encouraging!

Mine's arrived but not fitted it yet, was starting to get despondent and wondered if I should go for a 4600 x2 or a 4800 x 2 instead, but these last posts have cheered me up!