Opterons

[AMDSCOrPiO]

What are the pros/cons of opterons, are they better then athlons?

 

[Drizo]

All I know is that they overclock better.

 

[gurusan]

They are designed for servers which usually see more stress than a home computer....so the cores are usually slightly better so they usually overclock better.

However that's not to say you will get a great OC just because it's an opteron...or that you'll get a shitty OC just cuz you have a normal amd64 or x2

 

[AMDSCOrPiO]

is it better for gaming then the athlon

 

[lancec2c30]

no I think they lack a little in gaming.

 

[gurusan]

Sometimes....sometimes not.

Opterons all have 1mb cache while normal AMD64's have either 512kb or 1mb.

1mb cache is better obviously...

My point is that an AMD64 running a 2.0ghz with 1mb cache will provide the exact same performance as an opteron running at 2.0ghz.

 

[lancec2c30]

well what really screws with gaming is running dual opty's is all I know

 

[gurusan]

Why would that screw with gaming?

 

[NosBoost300]

i think the 940 opteron lack all the instruction sets that a 939 opteron has.. but i dunno, i may be wrong.. there was once a person on this forum with dual opteron 275's i think it was.. and he scored incredibly with his system in 3dmark.. so i dunno about that one...

 

[dwarf]

Opterons are made with higher quality silicon, as such, most steppings tend to overclock higher, I know I'm running my opteron 165 @ 2.89 on air, with the recent price drop, what's to lose by trying one?