SKT 939, which X2 chip?

[ShiWarrior]

IF I were to upgrade, whats your suggestions? money is very tight, so no new PSU, mobo or ram

spec at the moment :

AMD 3000+ Venice
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D
HIS Radeon X1950 PRO (PCIe)
Geil 2Gb RAM
Akasa 460W

thinking about getting one of those X2 chiips with the higher cache?

 

[ShiWarrior]

You could use the cash you save on a tuniq tower, scythe ninja or something similar!

gt

whats that?

oh and i dont think i could "overclock" due to the RAM being cheap Geil Value and only a 460W, the heatsink cost me an arm and a leg, but its only a 120mm Zalman cooler

 

[ShiWarrior]

Divide the ram down and get clocking! your ultra d will do 300htt easy, so you could get 2.7 out of the 300 you have

2.7 would be cracking!

im a bit limited in psu and RAM arent I?

 

[ShiWarrior]

not at all ram doesnt matter, just use an appropriate divider to keep it at 200mhz (or there abouts)

My 3000 did 2.80 (350x8) with 1.75v as a suicide shot, and 2.65 with 1.44v 24/7

stareted a new thread about o/c :
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8760238#post8760238

feel free to join in

 

[ShiWarrior]

I'd go for an Opteron 165 with that mobo. Most reach 2.7 to 2.8GHz (mine doe 2.9 on default volts), and they can be had for around 100quid new.

I never understood the differences between the FX chips and X2 chips ?

Opterons are just sandard cut down like Celerons arent they?

 

[ShiWarrior]

Opteron's are server-class, or cherry picked Athlon64's if you want another way to put it. That's why they tend to overclock better than ' normal ' Athlon64 / X2 chips.

Semprons are the AMD equivilant of Celerons.

ok, so are Opterons dual core as well ? (i dont think they are) if they are not then im looking at a dual core chip as i do a lot of multi tasking as well as games