AMD Opteron Dual-Core 165 1.80GHz - report your experience

[dasickninja]

Rich! You're back. Welcome.

 

[funnyman06]

Hey, i just bought my opty a couple months ago, and its a ccbbe 0617 and it ran at 3.0 mostly stable, need better cooling, but its running 2.8 perfect on my Zalman 9500 1.375 volts

Max Temp: 55
normal: 35-40

i upgraded from an X2 3800 to it and noticed a big difference once i OCed it, 3dmark went sky high.

In sisandra i score higher than the FX-62 on everything except memory bandwith.

 

[txtmstrjoe]

Thank you! nice reply i really appreciate it!

the price is $185 for the 1.8ghz opteron and $100 for 2.2ghz x2 3800+
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will the opteron game like an fx-60 at a simiar speed?

Opteron FTW!

Will game exactly like an FX-60 at similar speeds.

Aye. QFT, as they say.

To report on experience with an Opteron 165, I had one in my primary rig a few months ago. Ran it very reliably at 2.610GHz (I tested it all the way up to about 2.745 -- that's 305*9), but it wasn't really stable at the temps and VCore I had put into it at the time. I think I ran the VCore at around 1.39V or thereabouts.

Great chip. Still have it, but I'm testing a couple of other Optys in my main rig at the moment.

 

[dragonsprayer]

taco!

i make the best carne asada!

 

[dragonsprayer]

I chose Asus's P5B Deluxe WiFi $200 an E6600 $300 and 2x1gig Corsair Dominator 1066 memory $300.
1M SuperPI in 22s at stock speed of 2.4GHz...

wow should i install the p5b in the 939 or the e6600 in the 939 slot - i tried i added my omw pins and it smoked - dude this is an amd thread!

the p5b is not as good as the p5w-dh for this reason: crapy sound - i use the p5w-dh - it rocks because: its got good sound, dual lan and wireless you proably have the same, nifty remote i never ven hooled up but looks cool, the audio on the board is discrete it really sounds good wth vista better then xp suprisingly.

its got an e6300 at 2.8ghz i like it low, and crossfire 1950xtx- 4x 160 sata half in raid 10 with xp and half wth vista - corsair 3gigers dominex 4-4-4-12 ddr800...yaddaya...

back to 939's


i got 2 mobos i need to use and sell - i think i do one op and one x2

 

[jamiepotter]

Well, the trouble is that skt939 boards are becoming increasingly sparse in the marketplace, whcih is strange because they're not exactly out of date. The move to ddr2 on the am2 wasn't exactly a mind-blowing performance increase, and gains moving from my current setup to a core2duo setup still aren't so big as to make my computer obsolete.

An e6600 gets 2136 on CPU 3dmark06. (admittedly, this is stock) Mine gets just over 2000. Now, I'm not saying this is great, but it's not like I'm using a socket A or a pentium 4.

But if I were to buy another one now, the a8n32-sli does look pretty nice. It has passive cooling on the board, and 2 x16 pci lanes, and is a good OCer.

 

[AdamBomb42]

I got the opteron 175, unforetunately I can only get it up to 2.48 ghz stable. I'm wondering if it might be my power supply or motherboard hindering stability more then that. I'm not an extremely experienced overclocker but I honestly thought I would be able to get a bit more out of it.

I wouldn't doubt that it's the PSU causing the problem. It is certainly rated for a high enough wattage, but I have had issues with Antec PSUs in the past and have read about stability issues that others have had. I suggest for you to avoid Antec PSUs in the future. That chip should go higher, yet I had a 3200 that would not go above 2.3 and be stable. It sounds like you have covered all of your bases and you have already answered any questions that I might have. It may be a crappy overclocker or the PSU is not producing stable voltage.

 

[DaveElls]

I was thinking of buying a DFI lanparty board anyway, I have an extra 939 processor sitting around and think I might replace replace an old socket a setup I still have running and buy a cheapo pci-e card to go with it.

 

[AdamBomb42]

possibly, but with opty's, they have almost all been excellent ocers, it seems like a mobo problem to me, most can at least hit 2.6

He should test your theory by reducing the CPU multiplier and raising the base clock.

 

[rickpatbrown]

I have a 170 up to 2.89Ghz on air. Vcore is 1.435(i think) temps get up to around 57 at full load. Is that high for the voltage?
clock speed-321Mhz
I have A8N Sli Prem. Had to drop HT to 3X and Dram to 233mhz. CPU mult is 9X.

What make the C2D so much better? Sisoft gives the "intercore efficiency" a low rating for the Opteron, compared to C2D. Why?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Anyone want to buy a 4000+ clawhammer? 8) I paid about $400 for it a little over a year ago. This was before I new what 130nm meant.

 

[dragonsprayer]

Thank you for your info!

well my e6300 i bought last aug runs 2.80ghz below 1.4v it runs 33c and around 38c at full load.

i paid less them $200 for this chip last year - competition is good - amd's new quad core should be really good. Too bad for intel that little software can use the 4 cores on the q series. Lucky for amd that software will probably catch up just when there new quad as out.

i never installed the x6800 for the upgrade the e6300 works so well - the only reason i am building these amd is the price - $185 for a opie or $100 for x2 - wow - how things have changed!

the loser here is the single core chips - check ebay - you can get systems so cheap now. Well thats the computer biz -- 18 months and its worthless!


i got $60,000 of us robotics total controls from our defunct dial up -- your for $500!

 

[rickpatbrown]

So C2D runs cooler. Can it process more information faster? I have limited knowledge of how a processor works. All that MMX SSEE. . . 3Dnow whatever stuff makes my head hurt. Is there an easy way of saying why the C2D(let's say e6300) is better than Opteron 170?

I just got 8800GTS and I'm wondering if I am severly crippling it by runing with Opteron 170, my recent upgrade from the aforementioned 4000+ clawhammer. When I run 3DMark, most of the test get torn up by the 8800, but there is a test that says "CPU test" and I'm gettting 0 and 1 FPS for most of the test. My final 3DMark6 score is something like 8,500.

To go back to the original thread, would it be better to have upgraded my platform than to have done the CPU and Graphics card?
Is 939 really dying? Maybe.

 

[quantumsheep]

So C2D runs cooler. Can it process more information faster? .

Yes, it can. If you look at the CPU charts over at www.tomshardware.com you will see that the E 6300 performs a lot better than the Opteron 170, and about on par to the FX62.