Stupid Question

[sandmannight]

I was planning on buying an opteron 165 and I wanted to play World of Warcraft but I had not heard of people playing it on a opteron. I know this is probably a stupid question but does WoW work on an opteron and does it work well or does it not even matter and I am stupid lol?

 

[gOJDO]

I was planning on buying an opteron 165 and I wanted to play World of Warcraft but I had not heard of people playing it on a opteron. I know this is probably a stupid question but does WoW work on an opteron and does it work well or does it not even matter and I am stupid lol?

There are no stupid questions, but there are stupid people.
Why don't you try find infor on www.blizzard.com, I am sure you will find the answer there for sure, and there are a lot of discussions here about the abilities of the Opteron processors for gaming and other things.

 

[sleepdeprived82]

Yes WOW will work on an opteron

An opteron is just a A64 on 939, so if the game works on a A64 or X2 it will work on an opteron.

 

[mitch074]

To expand a bit more: an Opteron is a chip that has gone through a much more intensive testing and certification process than a 'standard' Athlon 64. It is a server chip, and servers are used to manage WoW's world - there are probably a few opterons-based rigs amongst these servers, so yes, an opteron should run WoW reliably.

If it doesn't work, you've wired it backwards

 

[fainis]

i second the motion .... if it doesn`t work the cpu is probably defective

 

[luminaris]

Yeah, that's definately not a stupid question by any means

I have an opteron 165 and I play WOW, COH/COV, FEAR, Farcry, Thief etc. and they all play very well on it.

 

[mitch074]

A stupid question is one that is never asked.

 

[mpjesse]

sometimes you guys bring a tear to me eye...

 

[mitch074]

Is that sarcasm?

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Mitch, you know 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary ?, Better go check.

 

[gOJDO]

A stupid question is one that is never asked.

There are no stupid questions, but there are stupid people.

 

[mitch074]

Ok, let's stop there - it's a hardware forum, not a philosophy one.

Conclusion is, the question itself, while simple to answer, wasn't stupid - however some of the answers were.

 

[gambit6259]

I wouldn't think you would have any problem using an opteron to play WOW. Stay Frosty!

 

[jap0nes]

I think if opteron runs windows then you'll be able to play on it.
I heard once that blizzard was acquiring some 200 or something opteron servers for WoW, so that's not "a few" servers

 

[bagg]

I have an Opteron 165 and play World of Warcraft. No problems at all.

 

[mitch074]

There. Direct from a tester.

Frankly, provided you're running Windows (which runs only on Pentium-class 100% compatible processors), you should have no problems.

AFAIK, there are even Linux users using Wine who can play WoW pretty well, so it may not be that picky about the platform anyway...