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straight choice 3800x2 or opteron 165
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what do you have atm? its probably not even worth the bother
dalex said:which one should i go for to extend my 939 rigs shelf life
its to go in an asrock dual sata with some overclock ability but not a great deal,a 7900 gs and 2gb ram
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opteron 165, if your boards not too good, go for the opty 170 if possible
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easyrider said:says a man going from 3ghz opty to conroe!
seen the light have we?
i always knew dual core on s939/am2 was a waste of time when you already have a fast single core. thats why i stuck it out until i got my conroe and wow....i made the right choice no doubt
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It's not a waste of time if you need two cores and/or have a lower speed athy. I went from a 3200 to an opty 165 @ 2.6 Ghz and it's definitely worth it. I can render stuff faster (max etc), I'll be able to compile my maps a lot faster AND games are a fair bit faster now too. I'm always the first person loaded when playing BF2 so I can actually get a jet/chopper these days. Which was nice.
For £110 I can't complain It was either that or upgrade everything, so it's a good purchase providing it actually suits your needs as opposed to being an upgrade for the sake of upgrading.
For £110 I can't complain
It was either that or upgrade everything, so it's a good purchase providing it actually suits your needs as opposed to being an upgrade for the sake of upgrading.
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which is why i asked what cpu he had. i had a 3ghz opteron as mentioned and yes while a dual core is twice as fast assuming you can run two threads, you'll get much better performance all round from a conroe. ofcourse that means upgrading everything - you have to weigh the pros and cons.
with this conroe im doing some things 3-4 times as fast as my old opteron. that's a proper upgrade.
with this conroe im doing some things 3-4 times as fast as my old opteron. that's a proper upgrade.
I got to say that Im a bit 50-50 still on my conroe upgrade.
Sure, I can convert the Vids off my camera to dvd, many times quicker than my AMDs could, which Im sure has to be 4 or 5 times quicker. Many things are quicker on the conroe which is brilliant, however, I havbe lost the ability of having a reliable system, this thing is seriously pants when it comes to playing HalfLife Epsiode 1 ( Although HL2 vanilla plays peachy ) and I have had nothing but problems with need for speed lot, especially UnderGround 2... In fact last week I finally got hold of underground 1, and had to uninstall U2 and MW just to get it on, put U2 back on and now it wont even load up! - Utter drivvel.
The other week, I got so annoyed with mine that I brought my AMD back down and thats once again my main PC and the conroe is upstairs and just being used for my video convertions only!
So, for me, it was a waste of time bothering.
Glad I did though, dont get me wrong, and I hope to resolve these issues sometime, but its certainly the worst PC I have ever had for not being able to run things properly at this time.
As for the original Post, both will clock fairly well, the 3800 has a 512K cache, or rather 2x512K and the Opty has 1MB so I would go for the opty over the 3800, but it depends on what you can get them for really.
And James Miller is right too! - If you already have a good single core, then going x2 wont suddenly make you twice as fast.
I went from a 3200 Winchester @ 2.8 to a 3800 and pretty much struggled to get that over 2.5 and I found it was a bit of a poo CPU really... No improvement in games or at least not enough to notice and I wished I had just gone for a fast single opteron to be honest... Which I also now have.
Sure, I can convert the Vids off my camera to dvd, many times quicker than my AMDs could, which Im sure has to be 4 or 5 times quicker. Many things are quicker on the conroe which is brilliant, however, I havbe lost the ability of having a reliable system, this thing is seriously pants when it comes to playing HalfLife Epsiode 1 ( Although HL2 vanilla plays peachy ) and I have had nothing but problems with need for speed lot, especially UnderGround 2... In fact last week I finally got hold of underground 1, and had to uninstall U2 and MW just to get it on, put U2 back on and now it wont even load up! - Utter drivvel.
The other week, I got so annoyed with mine that I brought my AMD back down and thats once again my main PC and the conroe is upstairs and just being used for my video convertions only!
So, for me, it was a waste of time bothering.
Glad I did though, dont get me wrong, and I hope to resolve these issues sometime, but its certainly the worst PC I have ever had for not being able to run things properly at this time.
As for the original Post, both will clock fairly well, the 3800 has a 512K cache, or rather 2x512K and the Opty has 1MB so I would go for the opty over the 3800, but it depends on what you can get them for really.
And James Miller is right too! - If you already have a good single core, then going x2 wont suddenly make you twice as fast.
I went from a 3200 Winchester @ 2.8 to a 3800 and pretty much struggled to get that over 2.5 and I found it was a bit of a poo CPU really... No improvement in games or at least not enough to notice and I wished I had just gone for a fast single opteron to be honest... Which I also now have.