Opterons - OC and Gaming?

[BennyV04988]

Hey, does anyone know how these perform in games and OC'ing?

AMD Opteron 148

AMD Opteron 150

AMD Opteron 165

I need to know how they compare to each other due to L2 cache, OC'ing, compared to the 64s(3700 and 4000) PLEASE HELP ME! Thanks...

 

[adam02]

150= NO NO, the 148 will easily overclock to 150. these are decent for gaming, but the best choice is the 165.

 

[snick]

on the OCing section of this forum is this sticky
has a TON of useful information on all processors.

 

[zerodayATK]

YAYYYY at least i know snick reads stickys

 

[snick]

yes, it's a new me, i've decided to do research on things before i respond to them....

 

[BennyV04988]

Well that sticky doesn't do me tremendous amount of good... I've been there before.

So you're telling me...that i could get this DC 1.8GHz S939...oc it to like a 2.6GHz (with a a zalman copper?) and it would be a DUAL CORE beast for only $325?

Would this perform as well as a 64 4000 @ 2.8GHz? (Similar price..,)

 

[003]

My 165 is overclocked to 2.75GHz, it can do 2.8 with more voltage.

 

[BennyV04988]

wow....nice. So thats obviously better than a single core OC @ 2.8Ghz I guess....

and its dual core.... *pondering*

I think I like this opty 165! I'll watch the price and plan to build with an opty 165 DC on an ASUS A8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4.
*waits for price to drop...* these aren't going anywhere soon are they?

 

[003]

If you're planning on waiting, then I would wait for intel to release it's new conroe CPU's.

 

[BennyV04988]

say what? intel? is that going to make the AMD's cheaper? I hope thats what you're getting at...I would never use an intel, ever. haha.

"Intel is mearly a skidmark on the underpants of the CPU industry..."