YoungBlood said:Never used an Opteron so can't realy comment, but I went from a 3200+ to a X2 4200 and it went from completly unplayable to, very playable indeed.
I have only been playing through the campaigns though, but often hit the unit cap with no slowdown at all, as long as everything is on low.
I'd asume with though, even a 6800GT would have to be low settings.
Im guessing it's certainly not much fun with a 3000+ though
Is the Opteron a dual core chip? if it is, then you will notice a massive difference.
Its dual core, 1MB cache per core. 1.8Ghz stock, but the chappy who's offered me it says it'll overclock to 2.6 easily. So thinking about it, if it uses both cores then thats more than twice the speed I have now, lol.
It *does* run on the 3000+, but only just. I'm limited to 10x10 maps, and no more than 2 other players. I dont think its graphics-limited - medium is fine early in the game, its only later on when it gets slow.
The real killer was having a mate come over yesterday for a game. He brought his laptop, which has the same ram and graphics as my machine but an Intel dual-core cpu. Towards the end of the game his was running crystal-smooth and mine was down to about 2 frames a second!
