Which sk.939 CPU?

[Claire Drew]

Go for a dual core 4200x2. Going forward you will see a good performance increase. Wont be disapointed

 

[Danger Phoenix]

a opty 165 has just gone for £75 on the MM - just to show there out there for that price

Yep... I bought it

Would have been stupid not to at that price

 

[Kotu]

im wondering what to upgrade to as well. At the moment I have a 3800 x2, im wondering whether an opty 185 would be much of an improvement, I don't really mind the cost since I don't plan to upgrade again any time soon.

 

[Mr Paul]

How far does the X2 clock?

 

[easyrider]

im wondering what to upgrade to as well. At the moment I have a 3800 x2, im wondering whether an opty 185 would be much of an improvement, I don't really mind the cost since I don't plan to upgrade again any time soon.

No,

depends what clocks your are running now.

Most optys max out at 2.8ghz 3ghz

 

[Kotu]

im not overclocking at all at the moment, so 2GHz, best i managed was about 2.1GHz (bad cpu maybe?) so im not too keen on overclocking aggressively.

 

[easyrider]

im not overclocking at all at the moment, so 2GHz, best i managed was about 2.1GHz (bad cpu maybe?) so im not too keen on overclocking aggressively.

Every x2 3800 will do 2.4ghz on stock vcore or if not a little bump.

Rather than waste money on a new cpu.

Learn how to clock the the thing,

 

[Killajaz]

I got myself a DFI Lanparty UT RDX200 CF-DR, an 146 Opteron CACJE0607 and 2x512mb BH-5 for £120

Will make a nice 3.0ghz + with ram at 265mhz 2-2-2-5. Should be able to handle WOW

 

[gt_junkie]

Bang for the buck skt 939 is the Opty 165. If you've got a board that can do more than 300mhz fsb of course!

Mine ran 24/7 @ 2.8ghz with stock volts! Would do just under 3ghz on good air cooling so water would see 3+ easy.

For the price they're going and if you wanted to stick with 939 come hell or high water then it's the only one to go for really.

gt

 

[Danger Phoenix]

I have just got back to Uni, and fitted my Opteron 165

I managed to whack it really quickly to 2.7Ghz with temperatures reaching 55 degrees on each core when Priming them! I will push it further when I get a new heatsink

For £75 (what I spent on it), 2.7Ghz is bloody good

 

[gurusan]

I have just got back to Uni, and fitted my Opteron 165

I managed to whack it really quickly to 2.7Ghz with temperatures reaching 55 degrees on each core when Priming them! I will push it further when I get a new heatsink

For £75 (what I spent on it), 2.7Ghz is bloody good

good stuff..congrats!!



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...............btw Elisha Cuthbert is the hotness

 

[Defcon5]

How far does the X2 clock?

Depends on stepping etc, but your Opty will probably clock better than the equivilant X2

 

[str]

The X2 4200+ I and others bought recently are doing well. Mine is at 2.8GHz on stock volts and possibly will do 3GHz. I had it running orthos at 3GHz for a couple of hours but it froze and I suspect it's memory settings related or it could be the memory controller can't go that far. Not bad for a chip that cost £82 inc delivery.

 

[Mundu]

The X2 4200+ doesn't have 1mb cache does it?

 

[str]

Yeah it's a Toledo but with half the cache disabled. Mine is fine at 3003MHz (273 x 11) now I sorted out the memory settings on my DFI NF4 Ultra-D with temps reaching 61/62c when running Orthos blend at priority 9.

The latest batches of these X2 CPUs are overclocking amazingly well.

 

[adapt]

same cpu as i am cuurently gonna try and sell for a E6600

Same as me bar I went for the 6300 and clocked it to 3.4 using the ds3 board. I got a good part of the money spent selling my 939 AGP stuff on the bay. For example I got £80 for my Abit 3rd eye mobo thats £10 more than I brought it for 2 years back!