Would using Dual Opteron's over the Athlon 64 FX-53 boast huge performance gains for gaming? Or should I just stick with the single CPU? Also does anyone know of any motherboard for the opterons that will have two PCI-express slots for dual Geforce 6800 ultra graphics cards ;D?
Dual Opteron 250's Vs Amd Athlon 64 FX-53
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i dont think there's any game out or planned for in the near future that will need that setup, i bloody hope not anyway cos i aint rich enough, i would say stick with the fx53 or wait for fx55 thats good enough to run any game well
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yeah. I just learned last night infact...that if the programs aren't written to take advantage of the dual processor then you won't have any advantage. I believe the dual processing is more for stuff like photoshop and video editing and such like that not gaming. So if you want gaming you should just get the FX-53 or do like shadow said and wait for FX-55
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man thats the first time someone said to listen to my advice, i'll have to take a screen shot ;-)
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I agree, the CPU's are basicly the same, and given the fact mentioned above that very few programs are written to take advantage of Dual CPU's.... I'd stick to the FX series
If you have money to burn, you could wait for the FX-55 and possibly by then they will have PCI Express for AMD boards
If you have money to burn, you could wait for the FX-55 and possibly by then they will have PCI Express for AMD boards
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i'm waiting for a nice fx55 and a 512mb graphics card mmmm
pci express would also be very nice
pci express would also be very nice
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I'm not even going to think about how fast that would be... fx-55 on socket 939 with the 2ghz hypertransport and a 512 mb pci express graphics card.............yeah.........:beard:
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if you want to get a PCI-Express board with any K8 processors, you're going to have to wait for Via or Nvidia to make a chipset that supports it
there is news of Nvidia making an Nforce4 chipset which will support PCI-E
there is news of Nvidia making an Nforce4 chipset which will support PCI-E
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well am waiting for it, and as i wait my spending limit is increasing as we speak, i cant wait to see my new spec when i finish it, currently i'm using a athlon64 3400 128mb radeon mobility, i can play games like doom 3 on medium but my battery life is like 10 minutes lol plus it gets way too hot so my new pc will be a big improvement
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