just been offered an opteron 146 socket 939 with a good stepping for hundred quid,is it worth upgrading and is it worth the price.Am i best off waiting for a decent dual core.I am gonna upgrade in an hour or two unless i'm told not to,i just don't know what to do,i'm a beginner.
no. get a conroe.
Get conroe. But if you have to get one of those go with the opteron.
I would go for it. Opterons overclock very nicely (if you're into that).
make sure your motherboard support any cpu u get..
i got the opty,running 2.6 stable,low voltage,(OC'D)i have got asus a8n-sli motherboard.is this a good gaming setup or can i improve,i have teagan 480w psu,2 gig corsair 400pc3200 memory,x1800xt512 graphics card.very sufficient air cooling .Am ordering 32 inch lcd tv next week to play tv and run my pc through.is this going to cope fine.
cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
no. get a conroe.
I never try to talk anyone OUT of buying an opty, but did you try OCing your A64?rippa1 wrote:
i got the opty,running 2.6 stable,low voltage,(OC'D)i have got asus a8n-sli motherboard.is this a good gaming setup or can i improve,i have teagan 480w psu,2 gig corsair 400pc3200 memory,x1800xt512 graphics card.very sufficient air cooling .Am ordering 32 inch lcd tv next week to play tv and run my pc through.is this going to cope fine.
I had a 146 that ran at 2.9Ghz and I'll tell you I'm 100% sure it was a fabulous gaming CPU. I was running it with a 7800gt and there was only 1 time loading a new map in BF2 that someone might have loaded faster. I'm not sure since I got so used to being the only one for at least 5 to 10 seconds that I was shocked to see someone else run by me when I stopped a couple seconds after spawning to create a new squad.
My winnie was running 2.4 (OC'd),i used to be first in the maps most of the time on bf2 with that so i hope this opty is even better, my mate had it running 2.8 stable but i'm just gonna leave it at 2.6,i'm happy with that.