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Wow your'e building your first rig and your'e going for an Operon or x2?! Thats impressive! Good luck with that :) I think the consensus is that the only plus going for the Opteron over the x2 is the overclock-ability. If your'e not planning on overclocking much or playing games etc, then...

Try this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/kids/B0001OM1JS/qid=1141208663/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_11_3/203-6906659-8571914 although it might be pushing it...

Well thanks to a tasty pay rise, I wont have to find out! I bought an Opteron 165 yesterday, and plan on getting the new DFI Crossfire board wih an x1900! The stepping is CCBWE 0551 VPMW and apparently it can reach 2.7 on air - shall wait and see...

Im sure it will OC madly, but with my choice of board, its just not going to be possible with the 255 FSB limit. I have looked around for other socket 939/AGP boards and everything else seems a lot worse than this! I might just go ahead with it anyway - at least furhter down the line when I...

But if the multiplier is locked at 9 and the maximum FSB is 255, then the maximum clock speed will be 2295! How do I get above that?

OK, but basically Im screwed if I keep the 165 and this board?

I just checked the manual for the GA K8V Ultra - it says that in the BIOS you can set the multiplier between 4 and 20 (800-4000Mhz) and you can set the CPU external clock from 200 to 255. Does this mean I will get a crappy 250Mhz OC (9 x 250)?? If so, theres not much point getting it!

hmmmm ok - thanks for your comments what about these steppings? 146 - cabye 0543 fpmw 165 - CCBWE 0534 SPMW

One other thing Im unsure about is RAM - its Crucial 3200, will this need to be upgraded in order to OC?

Hi I recently started looking for an upgarde CPU for my aging Barton 2500 OC to 3200 - I was in 2 minds about getting an X2 4200 or just go for the pure brute-force of a 64 4000. That was until I stumbled across a post regarding Opterons... It seems that I can get an Opteron 146 for about...