AMD Opteron Quad Core? Is it better?

[Stan Smith]

I bought this CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181154900837?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
A month ago and it's been really good, it's a dual core processor though, and it cost around $12.
I'm really poor so I don't want to spend too much on computer upgrades since I can't afford to spend money on stuff like that, so... Which do you guys think is better?

My old one?
Or this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-OPTERON-QUAD-CORE-PROCESSOR-2389-2-90GHZ-6MB-L3-CACHE-2200MHZ-OS2389WHP4DGI-/190866573865?pt=CPUs&hash=item2c7088ca29

 

[kirilmatt]

Its not worth it. What are you using your PC for? The opteron series are designed for servers. You would need to buy a server motherboard, potentially a GPU and a cooler as well. Buy a consumer chip on the cheap end such as an AMD Athlon II or Intel celeron/Pentium. Not opteron.

 

[Stan Smith]

Its not worth it. What are you using your PC for? The opteron series are designed for servers. You would need to buy a server motherboard, potentially a GPU and a cooler as well. Buy a consumer chip on the cheap end such as an AMD Athlon II or Intel celeron/Pentium. Not opteron.

I'm using my PC for gaming and I want to upgrade it because I'm also hosting a private server on it, but I can't spend my money on something that cost $90 or anything like that.

 

[kirilmatt]

Its not worth it. What are you using your PC for? The opteron series are designed for servers. You would need to buy a server motherboard, potentially a GPU and a cooler as well. Buy a consumer chip on the cheap end such as an AMD Athlon II or Intel celeron/Pentium. Not opteron.

I'm using my PC for gaming and I want to upgrade it because I'm also hosting a private server on it, but I can't spend my money on something that cost $90 or anything like that.

Then how can you afford a new motherboard, CPU cooler and maybe ram/GPU? Its really not worth it from a value perspective in any case. What GPU do you have? At least get a $60 athlon II x3 which you might be able to unlock to a phenom. Server MBs are very expensive. You would actually save money going for an athlon II x3 and a cheap($50) motherboard.

 

[Stan Smith]

Its not worth it. What are you using your PC for? The opteron series are designed for servers. You would need to buy a server motherboard, potentially a GPU and a cooler as well. Buy a consumer chip on the cheap end such as an AMD Athlon II or Intel celeron/Pentium. Not opteron.

I'm using my PC for gaming and I want to upgrade it because I'm also hosting a private server on it, but I can't spend my money on something that cost $90 or anything like that.

Then how can you afford a new motherboard, CPU cooler and maybe ram/GPU? Its really not worth it from a value perspective in any case. What GPU do you have? At least get a $60 athlon II x3 which you might be able to unlock to a phenom. Server MBs are very expensive. You would actually save money going for an athlon II x3 and a cheap($50) motherboard.

I'm not building a computer... I'm upgrading my CPU.

 

[kirilmatt]

Its not worth it. What are you using your PC for? The opteron series are designed for servers. You would need to buy a server motherboard, potentially a GPU and a cooler as well. Buy a consumer chip on the cheap end such as an AMD Athlon II or Intel celeron/Pentium. Not opteron.

I'm using my PC for gaming and I want to upgrade it because I'm also hosting a private server on it, but I can't spend my money on something that cost $90 or anything like that.

Then how can you afford a new motherboard, CPU cooler and maybe ram/GPU? Its really not worth it from a value perspective in any case. What GPU do you have? At least get a $60 athlon II x3 which you might be able to unlock to a phenom. Server MBs are very expensive. You would actually save money going for an athlon II x3 and a cheap($50) motherboard.

I'm not building a computer... I'm upgrading my CPU.

Your same components, especially motherboard, will not be compatible with this CPU.

 

[beanoslim]

It would help if you posted your motherboard specs then we could look into the best cpu for that board.

As mentioned you won't be able to run an AMD Opteron in a board thats running a Pentium D.