Dual Opterons, how well does it work?

[toasty2]

I was wondering how well dual Opteron 165's would work compared to say a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or X2 4800+.

I have seen dual processor motherboards, and it seems like a notable idea. But, how much of a gain would there be, and how well do 2 processors perform togethor? I know 2 processors doesnt equal 2x the power.

As a side question, I'd like to ask...why doesn't Tom's Hardware have cpu charts of the AMD Opterons?

 

[toasty2]

Bump, sorry.

 

[Heyyou27]

The Opteron 165 is a socket 939 chip; to this day there is no dual socket 939 board out. If you want to do dual Opterons you'll need to go socket 940 and use the Opteron 2xx series.

 

[NEO3]

The Opteron 165 IS A DUAL CORE processor! With 2mb of L2 cache (1mb for each core)
At the default setting, it has the same level of performance as a x2 3800+.
The best use for it is on the overclock side: a beast! great piece of hardware!

 

[octop8]

I've seen on Futuremark website test results for two opterons (OC'd to 2.6G) with 7900GTX SLI breaking 10,000 in 3D06, only synthetic benchmark of course.

 

[buci]

I was wondering how well dual Opteron 165's would work compared to say a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or X2 4800+.

I have seen dual processor motherboards, and it seems like a notable idea. But, how much of a gain would there be, and how well do 2 processors perform togethor? I know 2 processors doesnt equal 2x the power.

As a side question, I'd like to ask...why doesn't Tom's Hardware have cpu charts of the AMD Opterons?

As HeyYou27 said, you'd need 940pin CPUs to be able to do this and a mobo supporting the conifguration. Then if you wanted to take FULL advantage you'd probably want to run Windows 2003 Server(Standard) or something that has better support than Windows XP for Dual Processor configurations. but imagine the power behind it, you could be rendering some kinda game while encoding video, while encoding mp3s, and browsing the inet. heh but only if you had the ram to support it. but, anyway in my opinion it's a great idea....does ur wallet have the sustinance to handle it?

 

[WickedDevils]

I have dual athlon mps for about 3 years now. The system still works flawless (except some of the stuff gets touchy do to it moving to/from school all the time). It runs fast, and beats the heck out of a lot of the crap you pay for value pcs.

It won't improve your performance if you are only running one app that kills ur cpu, but I liked to encode w/ one of them and then still be able to play a game on the other. It is great for multitaskers, not great for the one threaded mind.