Opteron or X2 3800

[sandmannight]

I am going to use my computer for a good bit of games and for a good bit of work. I was leaning toward opteron cause it can overclock to 2.6(I am just going to 2.4) on air cooling. It also has 1MBx2 cache. Which should I choose?

 

[ChipDeath]

The opteron will probably require less voltage for the same clock, therefore less heat to deal with (not that the 3800+ is 'hot' anyway). For that reason I'd go for the opteron if there isn't a huge price difference. (well, and the fact I'd not settle for 2.4Ghz :lol

 

[luminaris]

I went with the opteron 165 and it's awesome. I can game, watch a movie, burn a CD and surf at the same time. And that's only with a Gig of RAM. I did build an X2 3800 machine and it was pretty good. I chose opty because I overclocked it and it runs very cool.

 

[chenBrazil]

Get opteron 165 .... 1 MB Cache x 2 will be good when gamming...
price is really close to chose a smaller cache ones....

 

[crazypyro]

if you want to OC and still have some headroom and are willing to pay the extra the 165 is your best bet.

as it says in my sig i have an 3800+ OC'd to 2.4 on the stock cooler, underload during Adobe Premiere, it never breaks the 42C barrier, but i'm also running a homebuilt open case designed case, so my ambient temp. is the air in my room. But nonetheless, if i had a 4400+ cooler i could easily hit 2.6ghz or more with the 3800+.

just my 2cents

 

[kais]

go ahead and do the opty the extra cache is very valuable for the games.

 

[gpfear]

I am going to use my computer for a good bit of games and for a good bit of work. I was leaning toward opteron cause it can overclock to 2.6(I am just going to 2.4) on air cooling. It also has 1MBx2 cache. Which should I choose?

Opteron, maybe a dual proc board that you could add another processor to later.

 

[angry_ducky]

I went with the opteron 165 and it's awesome. I can game, watch a movie, burn a CD and surf at the same time. And that's only with a Gig of RAM. I did build an X2 3800 machine and it was pretty good. I chose opty because I overclocked it and it runs very cool.

What do you think about the single core Opteron, namely the 144?

 

[liquidpaper007]

id go for the opteron becuase of the overclocking and the cache

I went with the opteron 165 and it's awesome. I can game, watch a movie, burn a CD and surf at the same time. And that's only with a Gig of RAM. I did build an X2 3800 machine and it was pretty good. I chose opty because I overclocked it and it runs very cool.

how do you game and watch a movie and surf all at the same time?

 

[angry_ducky]

good question

 

[angry_ducky]

BTW, I love that bunny. Did you make that up?


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[luminaris]

Multiple monitors

 

[angry_ducky]

So what do you think about the socket 939 Opty 144? Oh, yeah; does it use ECC RAM?