5PointOHNO

Get a dual core opty... cheaper than the X2 and more powerful.

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Z28 MeTaL HeAd

Opty is socket 940 though mang...i dont want to replace these mobos' too...the Neo 4 Platinum and Neo 2 Platinum r amazing boards!

-Jay

5PointOHNO

^oh really... is that what you thought

do a search on socket 939 opty's... 3.0GHZ on stock air.

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Z28 MeTaL HeAd

ok...so they were only released the beginning of this month aparently...thats why i didnt know, its been just over a month since ive read up on the latest and greatest releases...

Hmm...r they 2MB L2's ?

Z28 MeTaL HeAd

ok just read a whole bunch on them...there the same really as the X2's except they have double the L2 cache...

I wonder how OC'able they r though...

And there not cheaper..there SLIGHTLY more expensive...

-Jay

5PointOHNO

^double the L2 cache is a pretty big thing considering you were just talking about ripping DIVX and encoding? So which is it? Make up your mind? and the Opy 165 dual core is only $10 more than the X2... gee... what's a better buy

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Z28 MeTaL HeAd

Oh im not arguing that mang...id get the opty 165 for sure...if i had the money...$395 is still quite a lot for a CPU if u ask me...even the 3800+ X2 is too much...

-Jay

5PointOHNO

^Exactly, which is why the 939 opteron single core is the best buy.

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Z28 MeTaL HeAd

Are opty's multi locked ??? i think so...to bad we cant unlock them liek the old Socket A chips...

Was looking at the Mobile A64 chips...there multi unlocked, they adjust the multi on the fly to reduce speed and voltage and heat...

Say a AMD Turion(sp?) or just a mobile A64 3200+ or something...

-Jay

5PointOHNO

Well the opty's aren't totally locked, you can lower the multiplier, just not increase it. This is for AMD's "Cool N' Quiet" which is good, because sometimes to get the high frequencies we need to drop the multi and crank the HTT.

Jay if you're going with a 939 opty, get the 146, it's $195 vs the 144's $165, but the 144 has a 9x multi, which doesn't seem to clock higher than 2.9, the 146 has a 10x multi which works great.

It's pretty easy to get 3.0GHZ... set the HTT to 300, set your ram divider, leave the multi @ 10X and just change the LDT to 3X. I may be building an opteron on monday, I'll let you know the results.

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